US-Japan Center-to-Center Cooperative Research on Advanced Technologies for Earthquake Disaster Mitigation

9604614 Shinozuka这是一个为期三年的持续奖项，支持美国和日本的工程研究中心之间的合作。美国首席研究员是南加州地震中心(SCEC)地震减灾先进技术常设委员会主席M.Shinozuka教授。该中心位于南加州大学。日本的合作者是位于京都大学灾害预防研究所(DPRI)的K.Irikura教授。该项目由国际项目部的日本项目和工程局土木和机械结构部门的地震减灾项目共同资助。这笔赠款旨在根据神户和北岭地震的经验，制定预防和减轻地震灾害的新战略。研究将涉及利用先进和新兴技术，包括智能材料、微型传感器、精密执行器、微型计算机、GPS、无线和遥测通信以及先进的机器人技术。该项目的目标是：1)建立一个以大学为基础的美日中心到中心的研究实体，以确定、开发和推广地震减灾的先进技术；2)开发一个计算机辅助支持系统，根据对多种因素的快速评估，提供及时有效的应急和危机管理决策，供国家、地区和地方政府协调使用；3)开发一个原型综合实时监测系统，以检测地震后的火灾、破坏和故障；以及4)开发用于搜救、灭火和紧急拆除和修复的智能机器人原型。首席调查员将得到执行委员会和技术委员会的支持，执行委员会由8名研究人员组成，每个国家4名，负责重大研究管理、政策和战略制定，技术委员会由不同领域的20名专家组成，每个国家10名，负责就技术问题提供咨询。将举办三次讲习班，每年一次，以传播研究成果，并加快两国乃至全世界先进技术的开发和利用。该奖项支持美国高级研究人员、博士后研究人员和研究生在日本进行研究访问。

9604614 Shinozuka 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 M. Shinozuka, Chairman of the Southern California Earthquake Center's (SCEC) Standing Committee on Advanced Technologies for Earthquake Disaster Mitigation. This Center is located at the University of Southern California. The Japanese collaborator is Professor K. Irikura who is located at Kyoto University's Disaster Prevention Research Institute (DPRI). The project 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. The grant aims at developing new strategies for earthquake disaster prevention and mitigation based on experiences gained during the Kobe and Northridge earthquakes. Research will involve utilizing advanced and emerging technologies including smart materials, micro-sensors, precision actuators, micro-computers, GPS, wireless and telemetric communication and advanced robotics technology. The objectives of the project are: 1) to establish a university- based US-Japan center-to-center research entity that will identify, develop, and promote advanced technologies for earthquake disaster mitigation; 2) to develop a computer- aided support system that provides prompt and effective emergency response and crisis management decisions based on the rapid assessment of many factors for coordination uses by national, regional and local governments; 3) to develop a prototype integrated real-time monitoring system to detect post-earthquake fire, damage, and malfunction; and 4) to develop prototype intelligent robots to be used for search and rescue, fire-fighting, and emergency demolition and repair. The Principal Investigators will be supported by an Executive Committee consisting of eight researchers, four from each country, with responsibility for major research management, policy, and strategy development and a Technical Committee consisting of twenty experts on various fields, ten from each country, with responsibility for advice on technical issues. Three workshops will be held, one a year, to disseminate research results and accelerate the development and utilization of the advanced technologies in both countries and then throughout the world. This award supports research visits within Japan by U.S. senior investigators, postdoctoral researchers and graduate students.