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3 Networks of Facilities
Pages 21-26

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... A key part of the discussions involved the character- In turn, products from the community resilience observatory istics of the network of facilities, both experimental and could benefit land use planners, emergency responders, and cyberinfrastructure. Networking allows collaboration of state, regional, and local policy makers in their efforts to geographically distributed researchers and team members better prepare for earthquakes.
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From page 22...
... As one example from the table, the ported a workshop that brought together leading researchers rapid monitoring facility addresses problems described in from the disaster research community to explore the cre the Community Resilience Framework, Decision Making, ation of a new NSF observatory focused on resiliency and and Simulation Grand Challenges. The ordering of the facili- vulnerability.
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From page 23...
... Such a rich pository would require new technologies with respect to data data source could help researchers understand the response management, communication, data fusion, data processing of complete infrastructure systems in a region at multiple and dissemination, and data sharing. The instrumented city scales through networking with sensor galaxies and all could allow unprecedented research on studying decision- experimental and field facilities.
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... NETWORKED GEOTECHNICAL CENTRIFUGES TSUNAMI WAVE SIMULATOR Multiple networked geotechnical centrifuges, each including innovative capabilities for robotic manipulation T he tsunami wave simulator described by several and actuation within the centrifuge container during the workshop participants would be a revolutionary new facility experiment, could allow new types of experimental model that combines a tsunami wave basin with the capability to ing of landslides (including submarine) , liquefaction, and shake the ground to simulate liquefaction and subsidence.
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... Such a facility could enable the develop A mobile facility for in situ structural testing, as dement of high-fidelity physics-based models for incorporation scribed by participants in the "design of infrastructure" into simulations of complete structures. It could also enable group, could be equipped with a suite of highly portable the characterization of the full lifetime performance and testing equipment including shakers, actuators, sensors, and sustainability of structural elements and materials and allow high-resolution data acquisition systems that could be used the development of appropriate retrofit and strengthening to test structures, lifelines, or geotechnical systems in place.
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