Foreign Keynote Speakers Travel For 3rd U.S. Conference on Lifeline Earthquake Engineering.

自从生命线地震工程作为一门独立的技术学科诞生以来，仅仅在20年前，由于圣费尔南多地震，越来越明显的是，生命线工程对受地震事件影响的社区的福利和活力至关重要。生命线工程的主题涉及安全性、可靠性和概率分析的相关应用，因为它们涉及到传统的工程原理，如结构、岩土和网络分析。这些相互关联和相互作用的学科使生命线地震工程成为一个复杂的学科领域，需要先进的技术来发展和传播理论和方法。这个项目是为将于1991年8月22日至23日在加州洛杉矶的加州大学洛杉矶分校举行的第三届美国生命线地震工程会议的杰出主讲人提供旅费和每日津贴。由美国土木工程师学会（ASCE）主办。生命线地震工程会议是具有国际意义的会议，也涵盖了与受地震危害的生命线的安全性和可靠性有关的所有技术领域。会议将强调生命线地震工程方面的最新进展，并将有助于发展新知识和改进可能受地震影响的生命线的性能。它的目标是帮助建立工程实践方法和政策，以减轻地震对基础设施的影响，以及由关键的、具有功能和物理故障的、潜在的财产、人命和社会生产力损失。复杂的土木工程系统由于地震。

Since the birth of Lifeline Earthquake Engineering as an independent technical discipline, only 20 years ago, as a result of the San Fernando earthquake, it has become increasingly evident that lifeline engineering is vital to the welfare and vitality of communities subject to earthquake events. The subject of lifeline engineering involves safety, reliability, and related applications of probabilistic analysis as they relate to traditional engineering principles such as structural, geotechnical, and network analysis. These interrelated and interacting subjects make lifeline earthquake engineering a complex subject area requiring advanced techniques for development and dissemination of theory and methods. This project is to provide travel funds nd per diem costs for distinguished keynote speakers at the Third U.S. Conference on Lifeline Earthquake Engineering which will be held at UCLA, in Los Angeles, California on August 22-23, 1991, organized by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). The Lifeline Earthquake Engineering Conferences are international in significance, and also cover all technological areas with regard to safety and reliability of lifelines subject to earthquake hazards. The Conference will emphasize recent advances in Lifeline Earthquake Engineering, and will contribute to the development of new knowledge and improved performance of lifelines which may be subject to earthquakes. Its goal is to help establish methods of engineering practice and policy for mitigating earthquake effects on an infrastructure, and the potential loss of property, human life, and societal productivity arising from the functional and physical failure of critical, complex civil engineering systems due to earthquake.