Conference: Fire Resilience of Physical Civil Infrastructure; Reston, Virginia; Fall 2024

会议：有形民用基础设施的防火能力；

• 批准号: 2411761
• 负责人: Erica Fischer
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: Oregon State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-03-15 至 2025-02-28
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2411761&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Conference; Fire; Resilience; Physical; Civil

Fires in the United States result in annual costs in the billions of dollars, including direct property losses, indirect losses from business interruptions, and losses from injuries and deaths. The United States has witnessed the devastating impacts of wildfires on communities. Wildfire activity (the number of fire days, intensity, and impacts) has increased rapidly in recent decades, yet it is projected to increase even further due to climate change and anthropogenic activities, especially in wildland-urban interface (WUI) areas where people live. Structure fires have provided the engineering community with valuable insights into the behavior and impact of fires and fire safety design of civil infrastructure. Recently, experts in resilient fire design of civil infrastructure have applied their knowledge of fire safety design to understand and mitigate wildfire impacts to communities within the WUI. This award will support an engineering workshop to gather key experts from academe, industry, government agencies, and national laboratories within the United States in the field of resilient fire design of civil infrastructure to (1) share perspectives on available resources and facilities for experimental fire testing; (2) identify research needs, gaps, and challenges facing fire resilience of civil infrastructure, considering the emergence of new structural materials, increased wildfire demands due to climate change, and other emerging stressors; and (3) formulate a basic research and education agenda for fire resilience of physical civil infrastructure. The workshop will be held for two days in Fall 2024 at the American Society of Civil Engineers headquarters in Reston, Virginia. The workshop will identify fundamental research needs in achieving fire resilience of civil infrastructure for the following topics: (1) impacts of structural (or internal) fires on buildings and structures; (2) impacts of WUI (or external) fires on buildings and structures, including residential construction; (3) impacts of fires on transportation structures (excluding pavements); (4) impacts of fires on utilities; and (5) impacts of fires on geotechnical failures. For these topics, the workshop discussions will be structured to identify needs in four areas: in-field investigations, experimental research, numerical/analytical research, and educational approaches. The ideas presented by the speakers and generated from the discussion sessions will be summarized in a final report and published through the Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI) Data Depot (https://www.DesignSafe-ci.org).This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

美国的火灾每年造成数十亿美元的损失，包括直接财产损失、业务中断造成的间接损失以及伤亡损失。美国目睹了野火对社区造成的毁灭性影响。近几十年来，野火活动（火灾日数、强度和影响）迅速增加，但由于气候变化和人为活动，预计野火活动将进一步增加，特别是在人们居住的荒地-城市界面（WUI）地区。结构火灾为工程界提供了有关火灾行为和影响以及民用基础设施防火安全设计的宝贵见解。最近，民用基础设施弹性防火设计专家运用他们的消防安全设计知识来了解和减轻火灾对WUI内社区的影响。该奖项将支持一个工程研讨会，以聚集来自学术界、工业界、政府机构和美国国内民用基础设施弹性防火设计领域的关键专家，以(1)分享对可用资源和实验防火测试设施的看法；(2)考虑到新型结构材料的出现、气候变化导致的野火需求增加以及其他新兴压力因素，确定民用基础设施火灾恢复能力的研究需求、差距和面临的挑战；(3)制定民用物理基础设施防火韧性的基础研究和教育议程。该研讨会将于2024年秋季在弗吉尼亚州莱斯顿的美国土木工程师学会总部举行两天。研讨会将确定实现民用基础设施防火能力的基本研究需求，涉及以下主题：(1)结构（或内部）火灾对建筑物和结构的影响；(2) WUI（或外部）火灾对建筑物和构筑物（包括住宅建筑）的影响；（三）火灾对交通运输构筑物（不包括路面）的影响；（四）火灾对公用事业的影响；(5)火灾对岩土破坏的影响。对于这些主题，研讨会讨论的结构将确定四个方面的需求：实地调查、实验研究、数值/分析研究和教育方法。演讲者提出的想法和讨论环节产生的想法将总结在一份最终报告中，并通过自然灾害工程研究基础设施（NHERI）数据仓库（https://www.DesignSafe-ci.org）.This)发布，该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。