U.S.-Japan Collaborative Project on Post-Earthquake Reconstruction Strategies

9512844 Lee这是一个为期三年的连续奖项，支持美国和日本工程研究中心之间的合作。 美国首席研究员是乔治C教授。美国布法罗纽约州立大学国家地震工程研究中心主任Lee说。该奖项由国际项目部的日本项目和工程局土木和机械结构部的地震减灾项目共同资助。 在这个合作项目的过程中，NCEER的研究人员将与东京大学国际减灾工程中心（INCEDE）的研究人员合作，该中心由主任Tsuneo Katayama教授领导。 他们将试图通过在美国和日本的协调和合作案例研究，确定具有潜在跨社会适用性的震后重建和恢复的示范战略。 1994年在加州北岭和1995年在日本科比发生的毁灭性事件表明，人口密集的中心非常容易受到大地震的影响。 这些事件进一步表明，为改善设计和施工方法以及应急政策和程序而开展的减轻地震影响的研究工作，可以大大减少生命损失以及对建筑物和生命线的破坏。 通过召集一个由工程师和社会科学家组成的多学科小组来解决这些问题，日本的项目将以"系统综合"方法为基础，开展减轻地震危害的研究，这是自1986年以来国家环境与经济评估的基本主题。 在大多数情况下，该补助金支持美国高级研究人员，博士后研究人员和研究生在日本的研究访问。 来自几所大学和研究所的科学家参与了NCEER和INCEDE这两个中心的工作，从而提供了 民族特色的合作工作。 ***

9512844 Lee This is a three-year continuing award supporting a collaboration between engineering research centers in the United States and Japan. The U.S. principal investigator is Professor George C. Lee, Director of the National Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (NCEER), State University of New York, Buffalo. This award is jointly funded by the Japan Program of the Division of International Programs and the Earthquake Hazard Mitigation Program, Division of Civil and Mechanical Structures, Directorate for Engineering. During the course of this cooperative project, the investigators in NCEER will work with researchers in the International Center for Disaster Mitigation Engineering (INCEDE), University of Tokyo, led by its Director, Professor Tsuneo Katayama. They will attempt to identify exemplary strateeies for post-earthquake reconstruction and recovery that have potential cross-societal applicability through coordinated and cooperative case studies in the United States and Japan. The devastating events in Northridge, California in 1994 and in Kobe, Japan in 1995 have shown that dense population centers are very vulnerable to major earthquakes. These events further show that earthquake mitigation research efforts to improve design and construction methods and emergency response policies and procedures can substantially reduce the loss of life and damage to buildings and lifelines. By convening a multidisciplinary team of engineers and social scientists to address these issues, this U.S.-Japan project will build upon the "systems integrated" approach in earthquake hazard mitigation research implementation that has been the underlying theme of the NCEER since 1986. For the most part, this grant supports research visits in Japan by U.S. senior investigators, postdoctoral researcheps, and graduate students. Scientists from several universities and research institutes are involved in the work of both centers, NCEER and INCEDE, thus giving a national character to the cooperative work. ***