Preventing Earthquake Disasters: The Grand Challenge in Earthquake Engineering A Research Agenda for the Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) (2003) / Chapter Skim
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6. Recommendations for Meeting the Grand Challenge
6. Recommendations for Meeting the Grand Challenge
Pages 124-132
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Although earthquake engineering research has led to major advances over the past 30 years, much of this research is along fairly narrow, discipline-specific lines and is not well integrated from a broad systems perspective. Although the traditional research model has produced much work of value and undisputed improvement in the performance of the built environment, such fragmented research activities are not able to keep pace with the accelerating demands for new, more complex hazard mitigation solutions.
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Although most NEES research will focus on expanding the science and technology knowledge base, public policy actions that translate research results into practice are essential for ultimately preventing earthquake disasters. These actions include land use planning and zoning, building code adoption, enacting requirements for identifying and correcting hazards in existing buildings and lifelines, and either directly funding or providing financial incentives for risk reduction.
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The National Science Foundation should also support NEES projects of more modest scope that will produce and report useful results within a 2- to 3-year time frame. These projects could serve as models for additional studies and demonstrate positive outcomes that would encourage other investigators to become involved in NEES collaborative research.
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The committee identified the research needs and then, based on its collective experience, determined the basic amount necessary to operate and maintain a research program using the NEES infrastructure investment. The collective experience of the committee members suggests that the annual operating costs of large engineering research machines are on the order of 50 percent of the capital cost.
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The National Science Foundation, as the lead agency in the NEES partnership, should assume leadership and put in place a management structure to articulate objectives, identify and prioritize research needs, and assure a stable flow of support to achieve the objectives established for NEES. This should include the establishment of an advisory body to provide strategic guidance to NEES program activities.
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The National Science Foundation and other stakeholder agencies should develop a partnership with a shared vision for earthquake loss reduction and for undertaking research and development to achieve that vision. In addition to NSF, the NEES Consortium, and the agencies of the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program, federal, state, and local government agencies, government laboratories, and private industry all have some responsibility for addressing earthquake hazards.
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NEES has a responsibility to contribute to the education of students, the continuing education of faculty, and the elevation of public awareness about earthquake engineering and earthquake hazard in society as a whole. To maximize the impact of NEES research results, the NEES Consortium should generate public policy briefs, press releases, and educational resources for the general public.
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Proactive investments made with respect to the identification of problems in, and technology transfer to, developing countries will reduce future expenditures on earthquake-related disaster relief, limit the enormous detrimental effects of earthquake disasters on already struggling economies that are often felt worldwide, and satisfy a moral imperative to reduce the number of lives lost in future seismic events. Recommendation 10.
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Funding initiatives that combine, for example, collaborative efforts among NEES awarders, the national earthquake engineering centers, university researchers not located at equipment sites, researchers at government laboratories, practicing engineers, social and policy scientists, and information technologists will be required in order to accomplish this. An important potential role for the NEES Consortium will be to promote the development of new, cross-disciplinary research proposals that span these cutting-edge areas, establishing partnerships between NEES experimental researchers and numerical modelers, practicing engineers, and academic researchers in computer and computational science and engineering, information technology, and knowledge systems.
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