NEES: Instrumentation Acquisition for the Tsunami Wave Basin

该奖项为俄勒冈州州立大学提供资金，用于为乔治E.小布朗俄勒冈州州立大学的地震工程模拟网络（NEES）海啸波盆地，将由NEES联合体公司运营，2005 - 2014财政年度作为国家共享使用设施。 该奖项为必要的核心仪器提供资金，以应对2003年国家研究理事会题为“预防地震灾害：地震工程研究的重大挑战-地震工程网络的研究议程”的报告中概述的海啸研究的主要挑战。“仪器是根据海啸研究界的意见选择的，包括：一个自由表面探头阵列、一个声学多普勒测速仪阵列、一个压力传感器阵列、力测量系统（一个线性致动器、一个6DOF测压元件和一个加速度计）、一个移动的床多传感器阵列、照明设备和附加数据采集设备。 这种仪器将使研究人员能够开发海啸产生、传播和海岸影响的三维数值模拟模型，这些模型经过实验验证，并在需要时与选定的真实的海啸数据相结合，研究人员将能够模拟海啸接近海岸线时的破碎波浪、与边界剪切应力和波浪破碎有关的能量耗散、海岸上的上升和下降、波浪-结构相互作用和沉积物迁移。 该仪器还将用于K-12外展，通过使用海啸波盆地的远程呈现系统的演示实验室活动。该奖项由NSF NEES主要研究设备和设施建设（MREFC）项目资助，是国家地震灾害减少计划（NEHRP）的一部分。

This award provides funding for Oregon State University to purchase basic core instrumentation for the George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) tsunami wave basin at Oregon State University that will be operated by NEES Consortium, Inc., as a national shared use facility during FY 2005 - FY 2014. This award provides funding for the necessary core instrumentation to address the major challenges in tsunami research outlined the 2003 National Research Council report entitled "Preventing Earthquake Disasters: The Grand Challenge in Earthquake Engineering Research - A Research Agenda for the Network for Earthquake Engineering." The instrumentation was selected with input from the tsunami research community and includes: a free surface probe array, an acoustic-doppler velocimeter array, a pressure transducer array, force measurement systems (one linear actuator, one 6DOF load cell, and one accelerometer), a mobile bed multiple-transducer array, lighting equipment, and additional data acquisition equipment. This instrumentation will enable researchers to develop three-dimensional, numerical simulation models of tsunami generation, propagation and coastal effects that are experimentally verified and, as needed, combined with selected real time tsunami data, e.g., researchers will be able to model the breaking waves as the tsunami approaches the shoreline, energy dissipation associated with boundary shear stresses and with wave breaking, run-up and run-down on the shore, wave-structure interaction, and sediment transport. The instrumentation will also be used for K-12 outreach through demonstrated laboratory activities using the tsunami wave basin's telepresence system. This award is funded by the NSF NEES Major Research Equipment and Facilities Construction (MREFC) project and is a component of the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP).