UK Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (UK-NEES)

计算机技术和基于网络的通信技术的最新进展使远程、实时访问实验设施和数据成为可能。该项目将在英国牛津、剑桥和布里斯托尔的三个主要地震工程实验室之间建立一个基于网格的网络。该网络将使远程研究人员能够通过双向视频链接和在线数据流（远程参与）参与实验，对某些设施进行远程操作（远程操作），在一个共同实验中对地理分布的实验设施进行同步操作（分布式混合测试），并通过一个策划的数据存储库对数据进行存档和共享。该网络将(i)通过向英国和世界各地的用户开放这些关键实验室来优化它们的效用，（ii）加强研究工作的协作和整合，（iii）能够测试比单个实验室更大更复杂的结构，（iv）减少在许多地方复制昂贵设施的需求。该系统将与最近在美国建立的乔治·e·布朗地震工程模拟网络（NEES）相连接，并以其为密切模型。在这个项目中进行的工作将包括安装必要的设备和软件，与三个实验室的现有系统进行整合，并进行一系列测试，这些测试将展示和评价远程参与和分布式测试的能力。远程参与测试将在英国境内以及与跨大西洋伙伴一起进行。分布式测试将在三个实验室之间进行，每个实验室都将大规模测试理想桥梁的一个组件。这三个测试将同步执行，每个时间步在它们之间传递数据。

Recent advances in computing and web-based communications have created the possibility of allowing remote, real-time access to experimental facilities and data. This project will create a Grid-based network between the UK's three leading earthquake engineering laboratories at Oxford, Cambridge and Bristol. The network will enable participation by remote researchers in experiments through two-way video links and on-line data streaming (teleparticipation), remote operation of certain facilities (teleoperation), synchronous operation of geographically distributed experimental facilities in a common experiment (distributed hybrid testing), and the archiving and sharing of data via a curated data repository. The network will (i) optimise the utility of these key laboratories by opening them up to users around the UK and the wider world, (ii) enhance collaboration and integration of research effort, (iii) enable testing of larger and more complex structures than can be tested in a single lab, and (iv) reduce the need to replicate expensive facilities in numerous locations. The system will be connected to, and closely modelled on, the recently established George E. Brown Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) in the USA. The work performed in this project will comprise the installation of the necessary equipment and software, integration with existing systems in the three laboratories and the performance of a series of tests, which will demonstrate and evaluate the capabilities for tele-participation and distributed testing. Tele-participation tests will take place both within the UK and with trans-Atlantic partners. The distributed test will be carried out between the three laboratories, each of which will test at large scale a component of an idealised bridge. The three tests will be performed synchronously, with data passed between them at each timestep.