Conference: Fire Resilience of Physical Civil Infrastructure; Reston, Virginia; Fall 2024

美国的火灾每年造成数十亿美元的损失，包括直接财产损失、业务中断造成的间接损失以及伤亡损失。美国目睹了野火对社区的毁灭性影响。近几十年来，野火活动(火灾天数、强度和影响)迅速增加，但由于气候变化和人为活动，预计野火活动将进一步增加，特别是在人们居住的荒地-城市交界处。结构火灾为工程界提供了对火灾的行为和影响以及民用基础设施的消防安全设计的宝贵见解。最近，民用基础设施弹性火灾设计方面的专家应用他们的消防安全设计知识来了解和减轻野火对WUI内社区的影响。该奖项将支持一个工程研讨会，聚集来自美国学术界、工业界、政府机构和国家实验室的民用基础设施弹性防火设计领域的关键专家，以(1)分享对试验性火灾测试的可用资源和设施的看法；(2)确定民用基础设施的防火弹性所面临的研究需求、差距和挑战，考虑到新结构材料的出现、气候变化导致的野火需求增加以及其他新出现的压力来源；以及(3)制定关于有形民用基础设施的防火弹性的基础研究和教育议程。研讨会将于2024年秋季在弗吉尼亚州莱斯顿的美国土木工程师协会总部举行，为期两天。研讨会将针对以下主题确定在实现土木工程基础设施抗火能力方面的基本研究需求：(1)结构(或内部)火灾对建筑物和构筑物的影响；(2)WUI(或外部)火灾对建筑物和构筑物(包括住宅建筑)的影响；(3)火灾对交通构筑物(不包括人行道)的影响；(4)火灾对公用事业的影响；以及(5)火灾对岩土失灵的影响。对于这些专题，讲习班的讨论将确定四个领域的需要：实地调查、实验研究、数值/分析研究和教育方法。演讲者提出的想法和讨论过程中产生的想法将总结在最终报告中，并通过自然灾害工程研究基础设施数据库(https://www.DesignSafe-ci.org).This奖项反映了国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估)发布。

Fires in the United States result in annual costs in the billions of dollars, including direct property losses, indirect losses from business interruptions, and losses from injuries and deaths. The United States has witnessed the devastating impacts of wildfires on communities. Wildfire activity (the number of fire days, intensity, and impacts) has increased rapidly in recent decades, yet it is projected to increase even further due to climate change and anthropogenic activities, especially in wildland-urban interface (WUI) areas where people live. Structure fires have provided the engineering community with valuable insights into the behavior and impact of fires and fire safety design of civil infrastructure. Recently, experts in resilient fire design of civil infrastructure have applied their knowledge of fire safety design to understand and mitigate wildfire impacts to communities within the WUI. This award will support an engineering workshop to gather key experts from academe, industry, government agencies, and national laboratories within the United States in the field of resilient fire design of civil infrastructure to (1) share perspectives on available resources and facilities for experimental fire testing; (2) identify research needs, gaps, and challenges facing fire resilience of civil infrastructure, considering the emergence of new structural materials, increased wildfire demands due to climate change, and other emerging stressors; and (3) formulate a basic research and education agenda for fire resilience of physical civil infrastructure. The workshop will be held for two days in Fall 2024 at the American Society of Civil Engineers headquarters in Reston, Virginia. The workshop will identify fundamental research needs in achieving fire resilience of civil infrastructure for the following topics: (1) impacts of structural (or internal) fires on buildings and structures; (2) impacts of WUI (or external) fires on buildings and structures, including residential construction; (3) impacts of fires on transportation structures (excluding pavements); (4) impacts of fires on utilities; and (5) impacts of fires on geotechnical failures. For these topics, the workshop discussions will be structured to identify needs in four areas: in-field investigations, experimental research, numerical/analytical research, and educational approaches. The ideas presented by the speakers and generated from the discussion sessions will be summarized in a final report and published through the Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI) Data Depot (https://www.DesignSafe-ci.org).This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.