Now open: 2020 Blind Prediction Competition, sponsored by Japan’s National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience

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Dear Respected Colleagues,

Recently, hospitals have come under scrutiny for their ability to absorb
many types of disasters and continue to function with minimal impact. The
primary focus of the current experimentation and research is to take a more
holistic approach to generate more robust hospital resilience data.

Tokyo Metropolitan Resilience Project sponsored by National Research
Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience (NIED), Japan, will
attempt to measure and classify functionality and the current resilience in
a hospital setting by using: (1) a full-scale representation of a complex
two-building multi-story hospital with both a fixed and isolated base, (2)
various nonstructural components and (3) critical medical equipment.

The testing will take place in December 2020, which presents an opportunity
to host a multi-phase blind prediction competition. Each phase of the
contest will highlight a different challenge: (a) Phase I: Prediction
Techniques and (b) Phase II: Modeling and Verification. Students,
researchers, and practicing engineers are encouraged to participate.



Please find rules, timelines, construction progress and the signup sheet at
the Blind Prediction Competition website
<https://sites.google.com/view/2020bpc/overview?authuser=0>.


Sincerely yours,

Masahiro Kurata, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, DPRI, Kyoto University
Principal Investigator, 2020 Blind Prediction Contest for Integrated
Complex Structural/Non-Structural Assessment on Steel Hospital Building,
Tokyo Metropolitan Resilience Project
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