NSF Award Abstract - #0117935| NSF Award Abstract - #0117935 |
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| NSF Org | CMS |
| Latest Amendment Date | March 8, 2001 |
| Award Number | 0117935 |
| Award Instrument | Standard Grant |
| Program Manager |
Joy Pauschke CMS DIV OF CIVIL AND MECHANICAL SYSTEMS ENG DIRECTORATE FOR ENGINEERING |
| Start Date | March 1, 2001 |
| Expires | February 28, 2002 (Estimated) |
| Expected Total Amount | $60000 (Estimated) |
| Investigator |
Andre Filiatrault afiliatrault@ucsd.edu (Principal Investigator current) Scott A. Ashford (Co-Principal Investigator current) Ahmed-W. M. Elgamal (Co-Principal Investigator current) Andre Filiatrault afiliatrault@ucsd.edu (Co-Principal Investigator current) |
| Sponsor |
U of Cal San Diego 9500 Gilman Drive, Dept. 0934 La Jolla, CA 920930934 858/534-0246 |
| NSF Program | 1644 NETWK FOR ERTHQUKE ENG SIMULAT |
| Field Application | 0304010 Earthquake |
| Program Reference Code | 1057,1576,CVIS, |
Abstract CMS 0117935 SeibleThis award provides funding to the University of California, San Diego to conduct a national earthquake engineering research equipment workshop for the George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES). NEES is a project funded under the National Science Foundation (NSF) Major Research Equipment program and has been authorized by Congress for $81.9 million during FY 2000-FY 2004. In February 2001, NSF announced the NEES Earthquake Engineering Research Equipment Portfolio, Phase 1, consisting of eleven awards to ten institutions for $45 million. These eleven awards include new and upgraded shake tables, upgraded centrifuges, an upgraded wave basin for tsunami research, large-scale laboratory experimentation systems, and geotechnical and structural earthquake engineering field equipment. These equipment sites will be part of the NEES collaboratory and serve as national, shared-use earthquake engineering experimental research equipment installations, with teleobservation and teleoperation capabilities, networked together through the high performance Internet. In addition to providing access for telepresence at the NEES equipment sites, the network will use cutting-edge tools to link high performance computational and data storage facilities, including a curated repository for experimental and analytical earthquake engineering and related data. The network will also provide distributed physical and numerical simulation capabilities and resources for visualization of experimental and computed data. Through NEES, the earthquake engineering community will use these advanced experimental capabilities to test and validate more complex and comprehensive analytical and computer numerical models that will improve the seismic design and performance of our Nation's civil and mechanical systems. NSF intends to issue a Phase 2 program solicitation during 2001 to complete the NEES Equipment Portfolio. The purpose of this workshop is to bring the earthquake engineering community together to (a) summarize the NEES Equipment Portfolio, Phase 1, (b) assess other existing earthquake engineering facilities/equipment available in the United States, (c) identify possible missing components of the NEES Equipment Portfolio, Phase 1, and (d) recommend strategies to complete the NEES Equipment Portfolio during Phase 2. The earthquake engineering community can participate in this workshop via input on the web prior to the workshop and/or through attendance at the workshop. A report summarizing the recommendations from this workshop will be posted on the web for broad dissemination.
