USE OF EXPERIMENTAL FACILITIES IN NEES COLLABORATORY RESEARCH

摘要

The National Science Foundation, beginning in the late 1990s, laid the foundation for the development of the George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES), which is under development as of this writing. In 2004, the initial NSF-Funded components of NEES will be in place. The participation of experimental or simulation sites other than the NSF-funded NEES Equipment Sites, and the involvement of researchers, educators, practitioners, and others, will become part of NEES activities as well. The combination of these human, laboratory, and computer resources will inaugurate in 2004 the beginning of a new mode for conducting earthquake engineering research: NEES Collaboratory research.