Workshop: Earthquake Engineering and Structural Control Experimentation

目前正在华盛顿特区举办一次研讨会，向当地研究界对地震工程和动态系统控制感兴趣的成员介绍乔治华盛顿大学弗吉尼亚校区新建的六自由度振动台。华盛顿大都市区是许多高等教育机构的所在地，包括乔治·华盛顿大学、马里兰大学帕克分校、约翰·霍普金斯大学和天主教大学，以及几个国家实验室，包括国家标准与技术研究所、特纳·费尔班克斯实验室、海军研究实验室和NASA戈达德研究中心。这些机构和实验室的研究人员从事地震工程、结构阻尼和位置控制以及振动控制等工作，这些工作可以从振动台独特的实验能力中受益。每位研讨会参与者将发表15分钟的演讲，建议他或她可以在振动台上进行的可能研究。每次演讲之后，所有与会者将就提议的想法的优点和可能的改进进行简短讨论。研讨会的设计目的是让参与的研究人员能够最大限度地相互启发，进行智力体验。智力优势：研讨会将介绍一些关于使用新安装的可锻造工具的新研究想法。主题将包括(1)分析预测的实验验证，(2)主动和半主动结构控制，(3)新的传感器技术，以及(4)动力和拟动力同时测试。这些讨论有望引导参与的研究人员在地震工程和结构动力学领域进行个人和合作研究项目。广泛影响：探索新建振动台的能力和挑战与振动台设施相关的人员的最有效论坛之一就是通过一个关于这些主题的研讨会。拟议的讲习班的直接影响将是促进使用这一现代和独特的区域设施，它提供了研究界极为感兴趣的能力。研讨会带来的其他好处包括(1)为地震工程模拟网络(NEES)网格增加站点的联网程序的开创性，以及(2)在地震工程界和结构动力学界的研究人员之间建立协同。将进行的研究将包括本科生和研究生的参与。讲习班的结果将通过互联网公布。这些信息将在NEES联盟、国家科学基金会和地震工程研究委员会等网站上发布。为了进一步丰富讲习班的思路，我们将尽可能鼓励代表人数不足的团体参加。

A workshop is being organized in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area to introducemembers of the local research community who are interested in earthquake engineeringand dynamic system control to the newly-built 6-DOF shake table at the Virginia Campusof The George Washington University. The Washington metro area is home to a numberof institutions of higher education, including The George Washington University, theUniversity of Maryland at College Park, Johns Hopkins University and CatholicUniversity, and to several national laboratories, including the National Institute ofStandards and Technology, the Turner Fairbanks Laboratory, the Naval ResearchLaboratory, and NASA Goddard Research Center. Researchers at these institutions andlaboratories are involved in work.such as earthquake engineering, structural dampingand position control, and vibration control.that could benefit from unique experimentalcapabilities of the shake table.Each Workshop participant will present a 15-minute talk suggesting possible researchthat he or she could do on the shake table. Each talk will be followed by a briefdiscussion among all participants about the merits of, and possible improvements to, theproposed idea. The Workshop is designed to allow the group of participating researchersa maximally, mutually inspiring, intellectual experience.Intellectual Merit: A number of new research ideas for use of the newly-installed shaketable will be introduced at the workshop. Topics will include (1) experimentalverifications of analytical prediction, (2) active and semi-active structural control, (3)novel sensor technologies, and (4) dynamic and pseudo-dynamic concurrent testing.These discussions are expected to lead participating researchers to individual as well ascollaborative research projects in the areas of earthquake engineering and structuraldynamics.Broader Impact: One of the most effective forums for exploring the capabilities of thenewly built shake table and challenging the personnel associated with the shake tablefacility is through a workshop on just these topics. The direct impact of the proposedWorkshop will be to stimulate use of this modern and unique regional facility, whichprovides capabilities of critical interest to the research community. Other benefits tocome from the workshop include (1) the pioneering of networking procedures foraddition of sites to the Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) grid, and(2) creating synergy among researchers of the earthquake engineering community andthose from the structural dynamics community. Research to be conducted will involveboth undergraduate and graduate student participation. The results of the workshop willbe made available through the Internet. This information will be advertised in venuessuch as the NEES Consortium, the National Science Foundation, and the EarthquakeEngineering Research Council. To further diversify the thinking going on at theWorkshop, we will encourage the participation of under-represented groups wheneverpossible.