EOT Workshops

Issues And Research Needs In Simulation Development

A report of a Workshop held September 13, 2007
at the Chicago Hilton Hotel, O'Hare Airport.

Introduction

Purpose
The purpose of this meeting was to identify critical research and development needs that must be addressed to advance the experimental simulation capabilities of the 15 NEES Equipment Sites. The reports posted below intend to guide interested researchers in the kinds of research that the earthquake engineering research community needs, in order to ensure that the NEES Equipment Sites remain at the cutting edge of experimentation and simulation.

A call for proposals to undertake such research is expected to be made in the forthcoming NSF Solicitation for NEES Research (NEESR), under the category of Simulation Development (NEESR SD). Such proposals may be submitted by researchers from both NEES and non-NEES sites and institutions. NEESR-SD projects are intended to provide a mechanism for the development of tools to improve experimental and numerical simulation in the earthquake engineering community.

These tools may have quite general applicability. It is anticipated that NEESR-SD projects will also:
  • enhance the efficiency, usability and performance of NEES equipment sites,
  • improve the use, archiving and sharing of NEES data, and/or
  • enable NEES sites to generate experimental data that can be more rigorously and effectively used to test and develop numerical simulation procedures.
Within the Operations and Maintenance budget for NEESinc, NEESit and the fifteen Equipment Sites, there are limited funds available for increasing capacity and enhancing existing NEES infrastructure. It is anticipated that NEESR-SD projects will support developments that are either too large to be supported within the O&M budgets, or involve projects that may be outside the expertise of personnel available atNEES sites

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September 2008
8-9 Sep 2008  OpenSees Days 2008 UC Berkeley, Richmond Field Station, CA
10 Sep 2008  Hybrid Simulation at nees@berkeley UC Berkeley, Richmond Field Station
August 2009
16-20 Aug 2009  STESSA'09 Conference Loews Hotel, Philadelphia, PA