NEES Permanently Instrumented Field Sites - UCSB Equipment Site Upgrade Proposal

该奖项为加州-圣巴巴拉大学（UCSB）提供资金，用于购买先进的仪器设备，并为乔治E。小布朗地震工程模拟网络（NEES）-加纳谷野生动物现场的永久性仪器现场，将由NEES联盟公司运营，2005 - 2014财政年度作为国家共享使用设施。 该奖项为必要的仪器提供资金，以加强现场测量，为未来的分析提供额外的关键数据，并将其与自1982年以来一直使用仪器的老站点的数据进行比较。这将解决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”的报告中概述的主要挑战。“仪器是根据项目咨询委员会的意见选择的，包括：第五井下加速度计，其位于所述井下加速度计阵列中的可测量层中，用现代仪器代替模拟仪器（两个浅层传感器力平衡加速度计），以便将数据遥测到NEESgrid，用K-2系统取代地面加速度计和模拟数据采集器，和三个电转换压力计来测量孔隙压力。这种增强的仪器将使研究人员能够提供额外的数据，以充分分析野生动物遗址对未来地震震动的反应，并将未来的记录与1987年迷信山地震期间记录的记录进行比较和验证。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 University of California - Santa Barbara (UCSB) to purchase advanced instrumentation and do associated work for the George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) - Permanently Instrumented Field Sites at - Wildlife site in Garner Valley, 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 instrumentation to augment the field measurements to provide additional critical data for future analyses and compare it with the data from old site that has been instrumented since 1982.. This will address the major challenges 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 project advisory committee and includes: a fifth downhole accelerometer in the liquefiable layer in the downhole accelerometer array, replacing the analog instruments with modern instruments (two shallow episensor force-balance accelerometers) to allow telemetering of the data to NEESgrid, replacement of surface accelerometer and analog DAQ with K-2 system, and three electrically transduced piezometers to measure pore pressures. This augmented instrumentation will enable researchers to provide additional data to fully analyze response of the Wildlife sites to future earthquake shaking and to allow comparison and verification of future records with those recorded during 1987 Superstition Hills earthquake. 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).