NHERI Monthly Recap, April 2018
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Upcoming Events
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April 19 - 21
Structures Conference 2018<http://www.structurescongress.org/>
Fort Worth, Texas
Sponsor: ASCE<https://www.asce.org/>, SEI<https://www.asce.org/structural-engineering/structural-engineering/>, Masonry Society<https://masonrysociety.org/>
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June 4 - 6
NHERI Summer Institute<https://www.designsafe-ci.org/learning-center/summer-institute/>
San Antonio, Texas
Sponsor: NHERI ECO<https://www.designsafe-ci.org/facilities/nco/eco/>
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June 10 - 13
Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics Conference V<http://www.geesd2018.org/>
Austin, Texas
Sponsor: ASCE<http://www.asce.org/>
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June 18 - 21
16th European Conference on Earthquake Engineering<http://www.16ecee.org/>
Thessaloniki, Greece
Sponsor: EAEE<http://www.eaee.org/> and ELTAM<http://www.eltam.org/>
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June 18 - 22
International Symposium on Computational Wind Engineering 2018<http://cwe2018.weik.or.kr/>
Seoul, South Korea
Sponsor: WEIK<http://weik.or.kr/> and IAWE<http://iawe.org/>
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June 25 - 29
11th U.S. National Conference on Earthquake Engineering<http://www.11ncee.org/>
Los Angeles, California
Sponsor: EERI<http://www.eeri.org/>
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July 30 - August 3
36th International Conference on Coastal Engineering 2018<http://www.icce2018.com/>
Baltimore, Maryland
Sponsor: ASCE<http://www.asce.org/>
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Visit the events calendar on the DesignSafe-CI website: NHERI Community Events<https://www.designsafe-ci.org/community/events/>
Catch up with community happenings in NHERI's Monthly Recap newsletter.
Welcome to the monthly roundup of news from around the NHERI-DesignSafe community:
* NHERI's annual User Satisfaction Survey
* DesignSafe data curation assistance now available in real-time
* NHERI SimCenter leadership transition
* Purdue graduate students shake up the classroom
* SimCenter announces programming bootcamp
* WOW wins 2018 Charles Pankow Award for Innovation
* What's new: Weekly news service for natural hazards engineering
Would you like information about your EF to appear in the Monthly Recap and the DesignSafe newsroom? Send your news and announcements to the NHERI communication team: nheri.communications at mail.com<mailto:nheri.communications at gmail.com>.
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NHERI's annual User Satisfaction Survey
The User Forum is a NHERI-wide group composed of representatives from the broad scientific and engineering communities served by NHERI, elected by the user community. One focus of the UF is to provide the NHERI governance with specific input on community user satisfaction, priorities and needs relating to the use and capabilities of NHERI.
We are interested in assessing your experience with the services, tools, and resources that are part of NHERI, through a satisfaction survey. We encourage students, faculty, practitioners and all users of NHERI to take the survey and give us feedback!
The survey is anonymous and is primarily multiple-choice questions, with the opportunity to tell us more if you wish. The survey takes 5-10 minutes to complete.
Fill out the survey here: https://okstatecas.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0VQS2y2HnoUmlpP
The survey closes Friday, April 20th.
We appreciate your feedback as we continue to improve NHERI.
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DesignSafe data curation assistance now available in real-time
DesignSafe's Data Curator, Dr. Maria Esteva, now holds virtual office hours every Tuesday and Thursday from 1:00pm to 2:00pm Central Time (via Zoom) to assist researchers with data curation and publication. Reservations are not required, simply connect to the Zoom feed<https://designsafe-ci.zoom.us/j/730745593?pwd=&status=success> during that time.
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NHERI SimCenter leadership transition
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February 22, 2018 - In 2016 the Computational Modeling and Simulation Center (SimCenter) of the Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI), funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), was awarded to UC Berkeley with Professor Stephen Mahin as Principal Investigator (PI) and founding-Director. Under Mahin's visionary leadership, the SimCenter assembled a talented multi-university team of researchers to advance simulation methods to quantify and mitigate the effects of natural hazards on the built environment.
With Professor Mahin's passing in February<https://www.designsafe-ci.org/community/news/2018/february/stephen-mahin/>, NSF has announced Professor Sanjay Govindjee from UC Berkeley as the SimCenter's new PI. The SimCenter is now under the co-directorship of Professor Govindjee and Professor Greg Deierlein (Stanford University), who jointly intend to carry out the SimCenter's vision to be a vehicle to transform research in natural hazards engineering.
Principal Investigator (PI) Govindjee is joined by co-PIs at Stanford University (Greg Deierlein), University of Washington (Laura Lowes), University of Notre Dame (Ahsan Kareem), and UC Berkeley/CITRIS and the Banatao Institute (Camille Crittenden). More than 35 other affiliated faculty, staff, postdocs, and students from more than 12 major research universities from around the U.S. contribute to the SimCenter's activities.
The goal of the SimCenter is to provide the natural hazards engineering research and education community with access to next-generation computational modeling and simulation software tools, user support, and educational materials needed to advance the nation's capability to simulate the impact of natural hazards on structures, lifelines, and communities. The research enabled by the SimCenter will ultimately empower engineers to perform simulations that will inform decision-making by government, industry, and community leaders on risk management and mitigation measures to improve community resilience to earthquakes, storms, and other extreme hazards.
Principal Investigator:
Sanjay Govindjee, UC Berkeley
Leadership team:
Camille Crittenden, CITRIS and the Banatao Institute, UC Berkeley
Greg Deierlein, Stanford University
Ahsan Kareem, University of Notre Dame
Laura Lowes, University of Washington
Management Team
Frank McKenna, Chief Technology Officer
Matthew Schoettler, Associate Director for Operations
The NHERI SimCenter can be contacted at nheri-simcenter at berkeley.edu<mailto:nheri-simcenter at berkeley.edu>.
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Purdue graduate students shake up the classroom
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Puzzles and clues hidden in locked boxes help engage students with the lesson plan.
Classroom units on earthquakes provide an excellent means for students to connect natural processes with real-world applications.
By stepping beyond activities that focus on the mechanisms of these events, such as modelling seismic wave travel, educators can help students develop an understanding of their human impact.
Purdue University graduate student researchers have had success bridging this gap through a lesson that teaches earthquake emergency preparedness in tandem with disaster mitigation at a community level.
In a lesson plan recently published in The Science Teacher, high-school students become structural engineers in a simulated town that is faced with an impending earthquake. As they work in teams to progress through a series of puzzles, students use different analysis techniques to determine emergency response priorities both in preparation for and in response to the earthquake.
To complete the activity, students compare the results of the different analysis techniques, realizing that not all approaches give the same emergency response priorities. The true solution is instead the one indicated by multiple analysis methods. In addition to strengthening their analysis skills and engaging them in an authentic STEM application, the problem-based format of the lesson inspires creativity, perseverance, and communication as students work together toward a common goal.
The lesson, "Shaking it Up! A Problem-Based Learning Project on Earthquake Disaster Management<http://www.nsta.org/store/product_detail.aspx?id=10.2505/4/tst18_085_03_36>," is available from the National Science Teachers Association. The teacher's supplement is available on the DataHub<https://datacenterhub.org/resources/14715>.
The lesson was developed by Alana Lund, Christopher Roemmele, Lisa Roetker, and Steven Smith. It was published in The Science Teacher, vol. 85:3 on March 1, 2018.
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Students solve various puzzles, including challenges involving a replica Enigma Machine, while learning about earthquake preparedness.
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SimCenter announces programming bootcamp
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This summer, the NHERI Center for Computational Modeling and Simulation (the SimCenter<https://simcenter.designsafe-ci.org/>) presents a unique opportunity for learning programming tools tailored for the natural hazards engineering.
Are you a graduate student, postdoc, or new faculty in the natural hazards research community? Are you interested in programming and deploying next-generation software that can model and simulate the effects of natural hazards on components, structures and communities?
Are you - or your students or colleagues - interested in developing web-based interfaces for specialized workflows using the innovative framework being developed by the SimCenter, along with the hardware, software, and data available at DesignSafe-CI?
Then SAVE THE DATE for the SimCenter Programming Bootcamp, July 30 - August 3, 2018.
Plan to participate in this 5-day intensive programming short course with SimCenter developers.
Location: UC Berkeley's Richmond Field Station<https://www.google.com/maps/place/Richmond+Field+Station/@37.9170318,-122.3320362,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x8085785fd3a86f19:0x98e7907239c8c19c!8m2!3d37.9170318!4d-122.3298475>
Details of the program, support available, and registration will follow soon.
For more information, contact:
Professor Sanjay Govindjee, s_g at berkeley.edu<mailto:s_g at berkeley.edu>
Grace Kang, g.kang at berkeley.edu<mailto:g.kang at berkeley.edu>, (510) 642-3462
Learn more about the SimCenter at https://simcenter.designsafe-ci.org.
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WOW wins 2018 Charles Pankow Award for Innovation
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The NHERI Wall of Wind EF team, from left: Raphael Greenbaum, Ashkan Rasouli, Amal Elawady, Walter Conklin, Roy Liu, Peter Irwin, Arindam Gan Chowdhury, Ioannis Zisis, Maryam Refan.
Reston, VA, March 6, 2018 - The National Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI) Wall of Wind (WOW) Experimental Facility<https://cee.fiu.edu/research/facilities/wall-of-wind/> (EF) located at Florida International University (FIU), was awarded the 2018 Charles Pankow Award for Innovation by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). The NHERI WOW EF innovation will be recognized during ASCE's annual Outstanding Projects and Leaders (OPAL) Gala<https://www.asce.org/event/2018/opal-awards-gala/> on March 15, 2018.
The award recognizes outstanding organizations that have collaborated to practice innovative design, materials, or construction-related research and development.
The NHERI WOW EF uses a 12-fan system to provide experimental capabilities including generating wind speeds up to 157 miles per hour, or Category 5 Hurricane wind. This simulation allows civil engineers to understand the effects of extreme wind and rain on civil infrastructure systems, explore mitigation and resiliency techniques and promote sustainable design practices. By testing sustainable and resilient engineering systems with the NHERI WOW EF, civil engineers can work to mitigate hurricane impacts and prevent wind hazards from becoming community disasters.
"As we face more extreme weather events, our work at the Wall of Wind becomes ever more crucial for wind hazard and hurricane risk reduction," said Richard S. Olson, director of FIU's Extreme Events Institute and International Hurricane Research Center (IHRC). WOW is a collaboration between the IHRC and wind engineers in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at FIU's College of Engineering & Computing. "This award recognizes the Wall of Wind's pioneering research, where the faculty are committed to improving building standards and practices and achieving safer and more hurricane-resistant communities."
The NHERI WOW EF was created by a team of 9 members led by Principal Investigator Arindam Chowdhury. Chowdhury leads the scientific and operational vision of this innovative facility while facilitating educational and outreach activities.
According to Chowdhury, "The scientific vision of the NHERI WOW EF is to enable frontier research and education to impart resiliency and sustainability to new and existing building and cladding systems, and to lifeline infrastructure. Holistic testing of large models and integrated component assemblies is helping NSF-supported external users to gain new knowledge on wind and rain damage, cascading failures, and structural/functional fragilities, with and without retrofitting strategies.
"Moreover, the WOW's unique capabilities in terms of high Reynolds number experimentation is initiating a new chapter in multi-, cross-, and trans-disciplinary research that requires study of complex flows and their effects on structures. This helps the WOW to cross the traditional borders of wind engineering research and create an additional niche in fundamental fluid mechanics research."
Recent projects that have utilized the NHERI WOW EF include Experimentally Validated Stochastic Numerical Framework to Generate Multi-Dimensional Fragilities for Hurricane Resilience Enhancement of Transmission Systems, led by Principal Investigator Abdollah Shafieezadeh of Ohio State University, and Uncovering Potential Risks of Wind-Induced Cascading Damages to Construction Projects and Neighboring Communities, led by Principal Investigator Youngjib Ham of Texas A&M University.
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What's new: Weekly news service for natural hazards engineering
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As a leading NSF-funded research organization, NHERI now provides a weekly email news service with the latest news and research in natural hazards.
Every Monday, subscribers learn about discoveries in earthquake, wind, geotechnical and coastal engineering - as well as in related social sciences. Stories cover research, education and key announcements in the field.
Subscribe here<https://designsafe-ci.us16.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=dc90d9824e5a18416dfe678e8&id=d2f37f2d68>
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The NHERI Monthly Recap is prepared by the NHERI Network Coordination Office (NSF award #1612144<http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1612144>).
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