U.S.-Japan Joint Seminar on Civil Infrastructure Systems Research

9603203 Shinozuka该奖项支持美国科学家/工程师参加将于1997年4月1日至3日在夏威夷举行的美日民用基础设施系统研究研讨会。联合组织者是南加州大学的Masanobu Shinozuka教授和日本庆应义塾大学的渡部诚本。这次研讨会将提供一个论坛，以确定和比较共同的问题，促进两国之间的合作研究，并制定涉及以下研究主题的行动计划：衰老和恶化科学、健康监测和状况评估、更新工程、社会经济问题、机构效率和生产力，以及研究协调。民用基础设施系统(独联体)为社会提供了运输人员和货物、提供清洁水、电力、气体和液体燃料、便利通信、减轻自然灾害的影响以及为增进公众的福利和自由发挥许多其他功能的基本能力。社会活动的快速增长和由此产生的对独联体的需求正在抑制现有独联体的新建和翻新速度。美国和日本都有共同的独联体问题，需要为各自独联体的规划、设计、建造、维护和改造制定具有成本效益的战略。与日本专家在这一领域交换想法和数据将使美国参与者能够推进他们自己的工作，并将为未来的合作项目奠定基础。***

9603203 Shinozuka This award supports the participation of American scientists/engineers in a U.S.-Japan seminar on Civil Infrastructure Systems Research to be held in Hawaii from April 1-3, l997. The co-organizers are Professors Masanobu Shinozuka of the University of Southern California and Makoto Watabe of Keio University in Japan. This seminar will provide a forum for identifying and comparing common issues, for promoting cooperative research between the two nations and formulating action plans involving the following themes of study; science of aging and deterioration, health monitoring and condition assessment, renewal engineering, socio-economic issues, institutional effectiveness and productivity, and research coordination. Civil infrastructure systems (CIS) provide the societies' basic ability to transport people and goods, to deliver clean water, electric power, gas and liquid fuel, to facilitate communications, to mitigate the impact of natural disasters, and to serve many other functions for the enhancement of the welfare and freedom of the general public. Accelerating rapid growth of the societal activities and resulting demand for CIS is suppressing the rate of new construction and retrofitting of existing CIS. Both the U.S. and Japan share common problems of CIS and are in need of cost-effective strategies for planning, design, construction, maintenance and retrofit of their respective CISs. The exchange of ideas and data with Japanese experts in this field will enable U.S. participants to advance their own work, and will set the stage for future collaborative projects. ***