The Committee on Earthquake Engineering

该奖项为地震工程委员会提供了新的支持，该委员会成立于1983年，是国家研究理事会工程和技术系统委员会内的一个常设委员会。该委员会已经完成了两个项目：一项关于地震对大型地下结构的影响的研究，以及一项关于减少世界各地地震灾害潜在经济影响的战略规划会议。该委员会的另一项研究--估计未来地震的损失(1989年1月发布)--是由联邦紧急事务管理局(FEMA)要求并单独资助的项目。1989年，该委员会将完成对混凝土坝地震工程的研究，对地震政策的采纳和实施进行评估，并开始成立国家地震工程实验设施研究小组。此外，在单独提供资金的情况下，委员会将很快开始以下方面的研究：评估用于结构抗震设计的基础隔震技术、关于地震经济问题的讲习班、以及对联邦地震工程活动的评估。

This award provides renewed support for the Committee on Earthquake Engineering which was established in 1983 as a standing committee within the Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems, National Research Council. The committee has completed two projects: a study on seismic effects on large underground structures, and a conference on strategic planning to reduce the potential economic impacts of earthquake hazards throughout the world. Another study of the committee, Estimating Losses from Future Earthquakes (issued January 1989), was a project requested and separately funded by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). In 1989, the committee will complete its study on earthquake engineering for concrete dams, an evaluation of seismic policy adoption and implementation, and begin a study panel on National Earthquake Engineering Experimental Facilities. Further, with separate funding, the committee will soon begin studies on the following: an evaluation of base isolation techniques for seismic design of structures, a workshop on earthquake economic issues, and an assessment of federal earthquake engineering activities.