A Workshop for Tsunami Research Facilities

9812276 Philip Liu，Cornell U. 这一行动是为了支持1998年5月8日至9日在马里兰州巴尔的摩举行的一个讲习班，讨论在拟议的国家高性能地震模拟网络（NHPS）内海啸海岸工程的需要。 虽然重点是在海岸工程的需要，结构和岩土工程地震模拟设施的接口将被考虑。 建议的NHPS响应的需要，通过一系列的研讨会延长了20年的时间，以获得实验数据的工程材料，土壤和建筑设施的行为暴露于地震强烈的地面震动和/或相关的海啸助跑。NHPS的一个组成部分是通过现代高性能计算机和通信网络连接实验设施的概念，以便通过协同作用提高各个设施的能力，并为场外用户提供远程访问。 计划将该网络扩大到包括世界各地的关键实验设施。 海啸研究界正在考虑升级两个现有的研究设施：一个是带有定向波浪发生器的大型三维设施，另一个是二维波浪水槽。每个设施将用于数值-实验比较，并用于目前理论-数值方法不可能的实验。本次研讨会的目的是讨论需要解决的具有挑战性的研究课题，以及进行相关实验所需的具体实验设施。 预计本次研讨会的讨论将：（1）有助于更明确地界定将纳入NHPS的实验设施，以及可以使用这些设施进行的实验;（2）开始讨论与NHPS相关的重要文化变化，这些变化是由远程访问能力、 结果的快速传播，以及需要为实验结果的快速发表给予适当的作者署名。

9812276 Philip Liu, Cornell U. This action is to support a workshop in Baltimore, MD, 8-9 May 1998, to discuss the needs in tsunami coastal engineering within the proposed National Network for High Performance Seismic Simulation (NHPS). While the focus is on the needs within coastal engineering, the interface with facilities for structural and geotechnical engineering seismic simulation will be considered. The proposed NHPS responds to the need, expressed via a series of workshops extending over a period of twenty years, to obtain experimental data on the behavior of engineering materials, soils, and constructed facilities exposed to earthquake strong-ground shaking and/or the related runup of a tsunami. Integral to the NHPS is the concept of connecting the experimental facilities via a modern high-performance computer and communication network in order to enhance the capabilities of the individual facilities through synergism, and to provide remote access by off-site users. It is planned to extend the network to include key experimental facilities around the world. The tsunami research community is considering the upgrade of two existing research facilities: a large three-dimensional facility with a directional wave generator, and a two-dimensional wave tank. Each facility would be used both for numerical-experimental comparisons and for experiments for which current theoretical-numeral approaches are not possible. The objective of this workshop is to discuss challenging research topics to be addressed, and the specific experimental facilities needed to perform the associated experiments. It is expected that the deliberations of this workshop will: (1) contribute to a clearer definition of the experimental facilities to be included within the NHPS, and the experiments that can be undertaken using these facilities; and (2) begin a discussion of important culture changes associated with the NHPS resulting from remote access capabilities, the rapid dissemination of results, and the need to give appropriate authorship credit for the rapid publication of experimental results.