Planning Meeting for Creation of a Geotechnical Data Management Center

摘要：CMS-9812885让-皮埃尔·巴德，南加州大学许多联邦和州机构和组织赞助的岩土工程研究项目产生了大量关于场地土壤性质的现场和实验室数据。这些项目的数据和结果通常以硬拷贝报告的形式发布和分发，但没有现场和实验室测量的数字数据。在这些项目中产生的数字数据、图纸、照片和视频通常由主要调查人员存储，不幸的是，没有系统地分发给其他研究人员和从业人员。在互联网通信时代，传统的硬拷贝报告只能部分地传递数据；伴随的数字数据的缺乏阻碍了研究成果的验证和适用性，限制了赞助组织和机构的研究投资回报，延误了岩土工程的进展和突破。该项目的总体目标是建立一个岩土数据管理中心(GDMC)，该中心收集岩土工程研究人员产生的数字和图形数据，并通过互联网分发这些数据。GDMC将在南加州大学建立，并将连接来自其他参与机构的服务器，以及工程地震学的互联网分发系统的服务器。例如加州矿产和地质部和美国地质调查局的数据库，以及国家岩土试验场地的岩土数据库。GDMC的主要职能是促进互联网在岩土工程中的应用，并协调个人的努力。GDMC数据将主要是岩土性质的--例如，横波速度分布、圆锥贯入和标准贯入试验的结果、离心机试验结果，以及偶尔的强震记录。该项目的近期目标是组织一次小型会议，讨论和规划建立和运作GDMC的问题。主要议题是：(1)GDMC小型监督委员会的概念，以及(2)讨论监督委员会、其章程和运作的规划会议。预计岩土数据管理中心的建立将大大增加研究人员和用户可获得的关键数据，从而在减轻地震灾害方面取得更快的发展。

ABSTRACT: CMS-9812885 Jean-Pierre Bardet, USC The research projects in geotechnical engineering sponsored by many Federal and State agencies and organizations generate a large amount of Field and laboratory data concerning the properties of the soil at a site. The data and results of these projects are usually released and distributed As hard-copy reports, but without the accompanying digital data from field and laboratory measurements. The digital data, drawings, photographs, and videos generated in these projects are generally stored by the principal investigators and, unfortunately, are not systematically distributed to other researchers and practitioners. In the era of Internet communications, the traditional hardcopy reports only partially communicate the data; the absence of the accompanying digital data impedes the verification and applicability of research results, limits the return on research investments from sponsoring organizations and agencies, and delays progress and breakthroughs in geotechnical engineering. The overall objective of this project is the creation of a Geotechnical Data Management Center (GDMC) which collects the digital and graphical data generated by researchers in geotechnical engineering, and distributes this data by means of the Internet. The GDMC will be established at the University of Southern California, and will link the servers from other participating institutions, and those of Internet distribution systems in engineering seismology. Examples would be those of the California Division of Mines and Geology, and of the US Geological Survey, and geotechnical databases such as that for the National Geotechnical Experimentation Sites. The GDMC's main function is to catalyze the use of the Internet in geotechnical engineering, and to coordinate individual efforts. The GDMC data will be primarily of a geotechnical nature - e.g., shear wave velocity profiles, the results from cone penetration and standard penetr ation tests, centrifuge test results, and occasional strong motion recordings. The immediate objective of this project is to organize a small meeting to discuss and plan for the creation and operation of the GDMC. The main topics are: (1) the concept of a small oversight committee for the GDMC, and (2) the planning meeting to discuss the oversight committee, its charter, and operation. It is expected that the creation of the Geotechnical Data Management Center will greatly increase the availability of critical data to researchers and users, leading to more rapid developments in earthquake hazard mitigation.