14th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering (14WCEE); Beijing, China; October 12-17, 2008

该项目将资助40名美国科学家和工程师参加2008年10月12-17日在北京中国举行的第14届世界地震工程大会。这是一个每四年举行一次的大型论坛，为地震工程领域的科学信息和思想交流提供了绝佳的机会。该项目将为美国研究人员提供一个展示技术论文以传播他们的研究成果的机会，与在地震工程领域工作的国际研究人员互动，并参加会议后的技术活动。随着成都地区最近发生毁灭性地震，这次会议可能会有几个关于这次地震影响的报告，这个项目也将为美国科学家提供参加这些讨论和学习最新现场观测的绝佳机会。

This project will support the travel of 40 US scientists and engineers to participate in 14th World Conference in Earthquake Engineering to be held in Beijing in China in October 12-17, 2008. This is a major forum, held every four years, providing excellent opportunity for the exchange of scientific information and ideas in area of earthquake engineering. The project will provide the US researchers an opportunity to present technical papers for dissemination of their research results, to interact with international researchers who are working in the area of earthquake engineering, and to participate in the post?conference technical event. With the recent occurrence of a devastating earthquake in Chengdu area, there are likely be several presentations in this conference about the effect of this earthquake, and this project will also provide excellent opportunity to the US scientists to participate in these discussions and learn from the most recent field observations.