Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure: Network Coordination Office

自然灾害工程研究基础设施：网络协调办公室

• 批准号: 1612144
• 负责人: Julio Ramirez
• 金额: $ 410万
• 依托单位: Purdue University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-07-01 至 2021-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1612144&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Natural; Hazards; Engineering; Research; Infrastructure

The Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI) will be supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) as a distributed, multi-user national facility that will provide the natural hazards engineering research community with access to research infrastructure. NHERI will be comprised of separate research infrastructure awards for a Network Coordination Office (NCO)-this award, Cyberinfrastructure, Computational Modeling and Simulation Center, and Experimental Facilities for earthquake and wind hazards engineering research, including a post-disaster, rapid response research (RAPID) facility. NHERI awards will contribute to NSF's role in the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP) and the National Windstorm Impact Reduction Program. NHERI continues NSF's emphasis on earthquake engineering research infrastructure previously supported under the George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation as part of NEHRP, but now broadens that support to include wind and coastal hazards engineering research infrastructure. NHERI has the broad goal of supporting research that will improve the resilience and sustainability of civil infrastructure, such as buildings and other structures, underground structures, levees, and critical lifelines, against the natural hazards of earthquakes and windstorms, in order to minimize loss of life, damage, and economic loss. Information about NHERI resources will be available on the DesignSafe-ci.org web portal.This award will provide the NCO component for NHERI. The NCO will serve as the leader and focal point for NHERI, building a global, multi-hazard, collaborative research community and research infrastructure focused on mitigating the impacts of earthquakes, windstorms, and related hazards of tsunamis and storm surge on civil infrastructure. The NCO will provide the following activities for NHERI: (a) convene and support the governance groups, (b) schedule NSF-supported users at the NHERI Experimental Facilities, including the RAPID facility, (c) coordinate an annual NHERI-wide work plan, (d) develop and maintain the NHERI Science Plan, (e) form national and international strategic partnerships that can leverage and broaden NHERI resources, and (f) implement an education and community outreach (ECO) program. The ECO program will include an annual NHERI-wide research experiences for undergraduates (REU) site program, an annual NHERI Summer Institute, broadening participation of groups underrepresented in natural hazards engineering research, and dissemination of information about NHERI accomplishments and impact. The NHERI Science Plan will incorporate the Science Plans of the individual NHERI components, as well as contributions from the broader stakeholder community, to identify the grand challenges, key questions, and objectives for earthquake and wind hazards engineering research. Through the NCO's community coordination of NHERI's human, experimental, and cyber resources, researchers will be empowered to build new knowledge and innovation for national resilience and sustainability of civil infrastructure with fewer fatalities, less interruption to societal functions, and reduced economic loss.

自然灾害工程研究基础设施（NHERI）将由美国国家科学基金会（NSF）支持，作为一个分布式的，多用户的国家设施，将提供自然灾害工程研究界与研究基础设施的访问。 NHERI将由网络协调办公室（NCO）的独立研究基础设施奖项组成-该奖项，网络基础设施，计算建模和仿真中心，以及地震和风灾工程研究的实验设施，包括灾后快速反应研究（RAPID）设施。 NHERI奖项将有助于NSF在国家地震灾害减少计划（NEHRP）和国家风暴影响减少计划中的作用。NHERI继续NSF对地震工程研究基础设施的重视，以前是在乔治E.小布朗地震工程模拟网络作为NEHRP的一部分，但现在扩大了支持，包括风和沿海灾害工程研究基础设施。 NHERI的广泛目标是支持研究，以提高民用基础设施的弹性和可持续性，如建筑物和其他结构，地下结构，堤坝和关键生命线，以应对地震和风暴的自然灾害，以尽量减少生命损失，损害和经济损失。有关NHERI资源的信息将在DesignSafe-ci.org门户网站上提供。该奖项将为NHERI提供NCO组件。NCO将作为NHERI的领导者和协调中心，建立一个全球性的、多灾害的、协作研究社区和研究基础设施，重点是减轻地震、风暴以及海啸和风暴潮等相关灾害对民用基础设施的影响。 NCO将为NHERI提供以下活动：（a）召集和支持治理小组，（B）安排NHERI实验设施（包括RAPID设施）的NSF支持用户，（c）协调NHERI范围内的年度工作计划，（d）制定和维护NHERI科学计划，（e）形成能够利用和扩大NHERI资源的国家和国际战略伙伴关系，及（f）实施教育及社区外展计划。ECO计划将包括一个年度NHERI范围内的研究经验，为本科生（REU）网站程序，一个年度NHERI暑期研究所，扩大在自然灾害工程研究中代表性不足的群体的参与，并传播有关NHERI成就和影响的信息。NHERI科学计划将纳入NHERI各个组成部分的科学计划，以及更广泛的利益相关者社区的贡献，以确定地震和风灾工程研究的重大挑战，关键问题和目标。 通过NCO对NHERI人力、实验和网络资源的社区协调，研究人员将有能力为国家的复原力和民用基础设施的可持续性建立新的知识和创新，减少死亡人数，减少对社会功能的干扰，并减少经济损失。