NEES Operations

地震和海啸有可能在美国境内对建筑物、桥梁、关键的公共事业生命线和其他民用基础设施造成重大伤亡和破坏。为了降低这种风险，小乔治·E·布朗。地震工程模拟网络(NEES)最初是一个全国性的多用户研究基础设施，旨在促进减少地震和海啸损失的研究和创新，培养一支受过教育的减灾劳动力队伍，并开展更广泛的外联和终身学习活动。通过这项合作协议，普渡大学将在2010财年至2014财年领导、管理、运营和维护NEES。NEES包括：(1)位于普渡大学的管理总部；(2)位于美国各地大学并由其在当地运营的14个最先进的地震工程和海啸实验设施；(3)NEEShub网络基础设施框架；以及(4)由NEEShub(NEES教育、外联和非正式科学教育学院)支持的NEEShub。有关NEES的信息，请访问http://www.nees.org.The NEES设施，这些设施位于康奈尔大学、利哈伊大学、俄勒冈州立大学、伦斯勒理工学院、布法罗大学、纽约州立大学、加州大学伯克利分校、加州大学戴维斯分校、加州大学洛杉矶分校、加州大学圣地亚哥分校、加州大学圣巴巴拉分校、伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校、明尼苏达大学双子城分校、内华达大学雷诺分校和德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校，包括单人(室外)、双人和三人摇床；这些设备包括：带有飞行中双轴振动器和机器人工具的岩土离心机；海啸波盆地；用于测试大型结构、土壤-基础-结构相互作用系统和生命线系统的实验室；流动岩土和结构测试现场设备；以及位于加利福尼亚州南部的两个永久仪表化现场。参与NEES行动的其他组织包括费米国家加速器实验室、圣何塞州立大学、佛罗里达大学盖恩斯维尔分校、堪萨斯大学劳伦斯分校、密歇根大学安娜堡分校和西雅图华盛顿大学。就知识价值而言，NEES为地震和海啸减灾社区提供了一个研究基础设施，以进行发现，将发现转化为工程示范，开发创新技术，并将技术进步转化为工业、工程实践和抗震设计规定。由NEEShub支持的实验设施和用户需求驱动的网络基础设施为地震工程及相关领域的研究、教育和技术转让提供了开放访问、协作和数据丰富的实验和分析基础设施。NEEShub基于之前在普渡大学开发的HUBZERO技术，无缝集成了14个设施及其远程呈现功能、可公开访问的精选数据存储库、基于网络的协作工具、对尖端计算资源的访问以及开源计算工具。利用Internet2，NEES网络基础设施将使混合测试方法(计算和物理模拟耦合)以及多地点混合模拟成为可能。通过开放使用NEES基础设施进行研究和教育，实现了更广泛的影响。由NEEShub提供支持的实验设施和网络基础设施的技术人员提供培训讲习班，帮助研究人员、教育工作者和学生发现和使用NEES资源。NEEShub的用户友好的、基于网络的工具促进了对NEES资源的访问；研究成果、实验数据、教育材料以及计算和可视化工具的贡献；以及NEES实验数据的再利用，用于后续研究。NEES规定将研究成果和活动与教育、推广和培训相结合，从而使想法从概念到教育再到实践顺利过渡。NEES有可能成为地震工程模拟和教育的全球资源，不仅为在地震设计和建设方面先进的国家的研究人员提供服务，而且作为一种全天候资源，为民用基础设施和地震供应欠发达的国家的研究人员提供服务。NEES学院提供社区资源，提供教育材料、在线学习和跨年龄段的推广。NEES学院支持与该专业的接触，提供了一种机制，将理论与实践联系起来，并将实践的需要与研究重点联系起来。NEES设施的教职员工支持正在进行的地方外展工作，如K-12营地、博物馆展品和非正式科学教育。该奖项是国家减少地震灾害计划的一部分，http://www.nehrp.gov.

Earthquakes and tsunamis have the potential within the United States to cause significant casualties and damage to buildings, bridges, critical utility lifelines, and other civil infrastructure. To reduce this risk, the George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) originated as a national, multi-user research infrastructure to enable research and innovation in earthquake and tsunami loss reduction, create an educated workforce in hazard mitigation, and conduct broader outreach and lifelong learning activities. Purdue University, through this cooperative agreement, will lead, manage, operate, and maintain NEES from FY 2010 to FY 2014. NEES consists of (1) a managing headquarters located at Purdue University, (2) fourteen, state of the art earthquake engineering and tsunami experimental facilities located at and locally operated by universities across the United States, (3) the NEEShub cyberinfrastructure framework, and (4) powered by NEEShub, the NEES Academy for education, outreach, and informal science education. Information about NEES is available at http://www.nees.org.The NEES facilities, located at Cornell University; Lehigh University; Oregon State University; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; University at Buffalo, The State University of New York; University of California, Berkeley; University of California, Davis; University of California, Los Angeles; University of California, San Diego; University of California, Santa Barbara; University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; University of Nevada, Reno; and University of Texas at Austin, include single (outdoor), dual, and triple shake tables; geotechnical centrifuges with in-flight biaxial shakers and robotic tools; a tsunami wave basin; laboratories for testing large-scale structures, soil-foundation-structure interaction systems, and lifeline systems; mobile geotechnical and structural testing field equipment; and two permanently instrumented field sites in southern California. Other organizations participating in NEES operations include Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory; San Jose State University; University of Florida, Gainesville; University of Kansas, Lawrence; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; and University of Washington, Seattle. For intellectual merit, NEES provides the earthquake and tsunami hazard mitigation communities with a research infrastructure to make discoveries, translate discoveries to engineering demonstrations, develop innovative technologies, and transition technology advances to industry, engineering practice, and seismic design provisions. The experimental facilities and a user-requirement driven cyberinfrastructure powered by NEEShub provide an open access, collaborative, and data-rich experimental and analytical infrastructure for research, education, and technology transfer across earthquake engineering and related fields. NEEShub, which is based on HUBzero technology previously developed at Purdue University, seamlessly integrates the fourteen facilities and their telepresence capabilities, a publicly accessible curated data repository, web-based collaborative tools, access to leading edge compute resources, and open source computational tools. Using Internet2, the NEES cyberinfrastructure will enable hybrid testing methods (coupled computational and physical simulations) as well as multi-site hybrid simulation. Broader impacts are realized through open access to the NEES infrastructure for research and education. Technical staff operating the experimental facilities and cyberinfrastructure powered by NEEShub offer training workshops to help researchers, educators, and students discover and use NEES resources. NEEShub's user-friendly, web-based tools facilitate access to NEES resources; contribution of research findings, experimental data, educational materials, and computational and visualization tools; and the reuse of NEES experimental data for follow-on research. NEES provides for the integration of research findings and activities with education, outreach, and training, thus enabling the smooth transition of ideas from conception to education to practice. NEES has the potential to become the global resource for earthquake engineering simulation and education, serving not only researchers in countries advanced in seismic design and construction, but also as a 24/7 resource for researchers in countries with less developed civil infrastructure and seismic provisions. The NEES Academy provides a community resource for educational materials, on-line learning, and outreach across the age spectrum. The NEES Academy supports outreach to the profession, providing a mechanism to bridge theories to practice and the needs of practice to research priorities. Faculty and staff at the NEES facilities support ongoing local outreach efforts, such as K-12 camps, museum exhibits, and informal science education. This award is part of the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP), http://www.nehrp.gov.