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The National Science Foundation (NSF)
has announced that the Consortium of Universities for Research
in earthquake Engineering (CUREE)
has been selected to develop the new organization that will manage
the NSF-funded Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation
(NEES) during the 2004-2014
decade.
Further information may be obtained by
consulting the CUREE website at http://www.curee.org/,
or the new website CUREE has established for NEES program-wide
projects, http://www.nees.org.
Individuals can access an on-line form to indicate interest in
joining one or more NEES Consortium Development Working Groups.
EERI AND ASCE PARTNERS WITH CUREE
The CUREE-led NEES Consortium Development project will extend
from October of 2001 to October of 2004. The Principal Investigator
(PI) is Robert Reitherman, the Executive Director of CUREE, and
the management team includes the following Co-PI's: Stephen Mahin,
UC Berkeley; Robert Nigbor, University of Southern California;
Cherri Pancake, Oregon State University; Sharon Wood, University
of Texas at Austin. A diverse group of others is involved with
the PI and Co-PIs, collectively constituting the project's Executive
Council. Extensive involvement of the broad earthquake engineering
community will be a feature of the project. Two other organizations,
subawardees to CUREE, have key roles: the Earthquake Engineering
Research Institute (EERI)
and the Civil Engineering Research Foundation (CERF)
of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).
The total budget is $2 million.
NSF NEES PROGRAM MANAGEMENT
NSF's NEES program is managed within the Division
of Civil and Mechanical Systems, which is directed by Priscilla
Nelson. Joy Pauschke is the program manager of NEES, and Tom
Anderson is the project manager for the NEES Equipment Sites.
NEES EQUIPMENT SITES
The Equipment Sites are advanced experimental facilities now
being constructed or enhanced at ten universities. These laboratory
facilities include shake tables, large-scale structural testing
apparatus, tsunami wave basins, mobile geotechnical and structural
experimental capabilities, and centrifuges that are used to study
the behavior of soils and geotechnical structures under simulated
overburden pressures and earthquake shaking. NSF recently announced
a solicitation for Phase II awards, with letters of intent due
December 31, 2001.
NEES SYSTEM INTEGRATION
The Internet-based, national -scale high performance network
system for NEES, called NEESgrid,
is being designed and implemented by the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign.
NEES COLLABORATORY TO BE OPERATIONAL IN
2004
The System Integration project, along with the Equipment Sites
and new NEES Consortium, will all be operational by the fall
of 2004. At that point, the NEES-funded and other laboratory
or simulation facilities, and the engineering research community,
will be able to function as a single virtual laboratory--a collaboratory--even
though the facilities and individuals are geographically distributed.
Download the Fall
2001 CUREE News for more information, and to complete a form
to indicate how you may like to particpate in NEES.
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