The NSF Earthquake Disaster Mitigation Research Program

Abstract

This paper presents several major developments and research initiatives of NSF's program in earthquake hazard mitigation. These activities include (1) establishment of three new earthquake engineering research centers in the U.S., (2) initiation of a major five-year cooperative research program on urban earthquake disaster mitigation between the U.S. and Japan, (3) initiation of two joint center-to-center projects between the U.S. and Japan, and (4) planning for a high-performance earthquake simulation facility network in the U.S. These activities highlight the ever-increasing importance of research innovations for earthquake disaster mitigation and the continuing challenges for cooperation between the U.S. and Japan.

Us-Japan Cooperative Research for Urban Earthquake Disaster Mitigati

“…They may be obtained via contact with respective PI's. The final report from the US view can be found in the NSF report (Liu and Weber, 2004) While the readers are advised to get detailed information from these documents, following is a description of what was recognized as significant features of the US-Japan program.…”

Engineering management of lifeline systems under earthquake risk

“…(1 )A national project: "Fundamental Studies for the Mitigation of Urban Disasters by Near-Field Earthquakes" (1996 [Liu, Anderson, Astill and Weber, 1997]) *Technical Coordination Committee Chair: Mete A. Sozen, Purdue University 1) Performance-based design and engineering 2) Integrated social science and related multi-disciplinary research 3) Advanced steel structures 4) Geo technical engineering systems 5) Advanced technologies (3) A multi-lateral project: "Development of Earthquake and Tsunami Disaster Mitigation Technologies and Their Integration for the Asia-Pacific Region" (1999 In these projects, lifeline issues are involved in various ways. For example, in Project (1), part of Section B deals with transportation and telecommunication issues intensively from structural, functional and emergency operation points of view.…”