Travel in Connection with U.S. - Chile Cooperation in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering

这项行动的目的是协助组织一个关于“智利地震微带和土工结构仪器”的讲习班。这次会议将在圣地亚哥的智利大学举行，暂定日期为1992年1月6日至10日。具体来说，这一行动是为北卡罗来纳大学夏洛特分校的Chaim Poran教授前往智利圣地亚哥会见Eugenio Retamal教授提供旅行支持。开始为这个研讨会做计划。智利的这个地区是地震非常活跃的，历史上和最近（1985年），它遭受了大的破坏性地震。这次会议的动机是建立和维持美国和智利之间的联系。1985年地震后，开始了合作研究项目，以协助智利和美国的岩土工程人员从那次地震中吸取教训。本次讲习班将继续并加强这种合作；它将协助制定智利下一次大地震的防备计划；它将使美国的研究人员能够从那次事件中吸取教训。

This action is to assist in the organization of a workshop on "Seismic Microzonation and Instrumentation of Geotechnical Structures in Chile". This meeting is to be held at the University of Chile in Santiago, with a tentative date of January 6-10, 1992. Specifically, this action is to provide travel support for Professor Chaim Poran of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte to meet with Prof. Eugenio Retamal in Santiago, Chile, to begin planning for this workshop. This region of Chile is seismically very active, and historically and in recent times (1985) it has been subjected to large damaging earthquakes. The motivation for this meeting is to forge and maintain contacts between the U.S. and Chile. Following the 1985 earthquake, collaborative research projects were initiated to assist geotechnical engineers in Chile and the United States of learn from that event. This workshop will continue and enhance that collaboration; it will assist with the development of preparedness plans for the next major earthquake in Chile; and it will enable researchers in the United States to be in a position to learn from that event.