International Travel Grant to attend Analytical and Experi- mental Research for Seismic Repair/Rehabiitation of Low-RiseShear Wall Structures in Taipei and Tainan, Taiwan

本项目为首席研究员赴台湾进行短期科学访问合作研究提供国际旅费支持。本次调查将与国立台湾大学、国立成功大学的研究人员就低层建筑的地震修复与重建进行合作研究钢筋混凝土建筑。台湾研究人员近期研究的大量实验数据将被收集和分析，以形成这种结构的数学模型的基础。有了这样的模型，就可以进行复杂的非线性分析，以确定潜在的地震破坏程度。在 另外,利用台湾的建筑库存和数据库来研究混合技术以控制地震和/或风力引起的动态运动的可行性将进行研究。​合作研究将提高对低层建筑非线性地震行为的工程理解，提高此类结构的建模能力，并为结构控制研究的合作研究制定可行的框架。

This project provides international travel support for the Principal investigator to conduct cooperative studies in Taiwan on a short-term scientific visit basis. The investigation will conduct cooperative studies with researchers at the National Taiwan University and National Cheng-Kung University on the seismic repair and rehabilitation of low-rise reinforced concrete buildings. Extensive experimental data available through recent studies by Taiwanese researchers will be collected and analyzed to form the basis of a mathematical model for such structures. With such a model, complex nonlinear analysis which is required to determine the degree of potential seismic damage can then be performed. In addition, the feasibility of using Taiwan's building inventory and data base to investigate the hybrid techniques to control the dynamic movements caused by earthquakes and/or wind forces will be investigated. The cooperative studies will improve engineering understanding of the nonlinear seismic behavior of low-rise buildings, increase the ability to model such structures, and develop viable framework for cooperative studies in structural control research.