NHERI Monthly Recap, June 2019

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July 14 - July 19
44th Annual Natural Hazards Research and Applications Workshop<https://hazards.colorado.edu/workshop/2019>
Broomfield, Colorado
Sponsor: Natural Hazards Center<https://hazards.colorado.edu/>

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July 22 - July 26
SimCenter Programming Bootcamp<https://www.eiseverywhere.com/ereg/index.php?eventid=414765&>
UC Berkeley Richmond Field Station
Sponsor: UC Berkeley<https://www.berkeley.edu/>

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July 23 - July 26
NHERI RAPID Facility 2019 Intensive Workshop<https://www.designsafe-ci.org/learning-center/training/workshops/rapid-ef/2019-intensive-workshop/>
Seattle, Washington
Sponsor: RAPID<https://rapid.designsafe-ci.org/>

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July 29 - July 31
9th International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications (SIMULTECH 2019)<http://simultech.org/>
Prague, Czech Republic
Sponsor: INSTICC<http://insticc.org/>

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July 31 - August 1
OSU & RAPID Joint Facilities Workshop<http://cce.oregonstate.edu/2019-nheri-oregonstate-workshop-registration>
Corvallis, Oregon
Sponsor: OSU<http://oregonstate.edu/> and RAPID<https://rapid.designsafe-ci.org/>

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October 14 - October 15
Tornado Hazard Wind Assessment and ReducTion Symposium, THWARTS<https://thwarts.cee.illinois.edu/>
Champaign, Illinois
Sponsor: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign<https://illinois.edu/>

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Visit the events calendar on the DesignSafe-CI website: NHERI Community Calendar<https://www.designsafe-ci.org/community/calendar/>

JUNE 2019
Catch up with community happenings in NHERI's Monthly Recap.

Here's what's been happening around the network:

  *   StEER launches new website, membership drive
  *   SimCenter to collaborate on $4.9M PEER research project
  *   NHERI at the 44th annual Natural Hazards Center conference
  *   WHIP center to reduce property damage, protect communities
  *   Buildings that withstand tsunami wave inundation
  *   In Memoriam: Jon Peterka, 1941-2019

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StEER launches new website, membership drive

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The Structural Extreme Events Reconnaissance network, known as StEER, has recently launched its website: https://www.steer.network/. The site includes comprehensive information about the group’s vision, event responses and products.

More importantly, the site includes a formal invitation for NHERI network members and DesignSafe users to join StEER. Find details about joining by visiting the membership page: https://www.steer.network/membership. To join StEER, complete the linked membership application in the upper right of the page.

Read the FULL STORY<https://www.designsafe-ci.org/community/news/2019/april/steer-launches-website-membership-drive/>.

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SimCenter to collaborate on $4.9M PEER research project

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The NHERI SimCenter is a collaborator on a $4.9 million, 2.5-year research project led by the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER)<https://peer.berkeley.edu/>. The California Energy Commission<https://www.energy.ca.gov/>, under one of its fundamental goals to develop and implement research, awarded the grant for the PEER project “Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering Assessment Tool for Gas Storage and Transmission Systems,” to improve the seismic risk assessment of natural gas storage and pipeline infrastructure.

The project will develop a new open-source software to better assess risks to natural gas storage and pipeline systems from seismic activity. The tool will improve the safety and integrity of natural gas storage, piping, and infrastructure systems by helping regulators and owners direct seismic mitigation efforts to the most vulnerable components.

Read the FULL STORY<https://simcenter.designsafe-ci.org/news/2019/may/simcenter-collaboration-49m-peer-research-project/> on the SimCenter website.

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NHERI at the 44th annual Natural Hazards Center conference

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The University of Colorado Boulder-based Natural Hazards Center<https://hazards.colorado.edu/> holds an annual workshop<https://hazards.colorado.edu/workshop/2019> for a wide range of researchers and practitioners dedicated to alleviating the impacts of natural disasters.

The theme for this year’s event<https://hazards.colorado.edu/workshop/2019>, which takes place July 14-18 in Broomfield, Colorado, is “Convergence.” Workshop activities are organized around ways people from diverse backgrounds and occupations can join forces to solve enduring problems. The more than 500 attendees include federal, state and local mitigation and emergency management officials; representatives of nonprofit, private sector and humanitarian organizations; hazards and disaster researchers; and others.

At the workshop, members of the NHERI community will present on the topic of the network<https://hazards.colorado.edu/workshop/2019/session/natural-hazards-engineering-research-infrastructure-nheri-for-the-nation?row=43> and its nation-wide impact. This session will introduce the NHERI five-year science plan, highlight the network’s experimental facilities and cyberinfrastructure, and showcase NHERI’s Summer Institute for Early Career Faculty and the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program.

In fact, a cohort of NHERI-REU students will attend the conference from July 16-18. The undergraduates will present research posters individually and in groups, and they’ll network with researchers and practitioners in the field of natural hazards mitigation. As well as learning about engineering research, the students are interested to learn about research projects in the social sciences related to natural hazards.

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New NSF-funded wind research center aims to reduce property damage, protect communities

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NHERI wind researchers and facilities are part of a new, NSF-funded Industry–University Cooperative Research Center.

The Wind Hazard and Infrastructure Performance Center, or WHIP, is the first of its kind under the NSF IUCRC program. Researchers from Florida International University, Texas Tech University and Florida Institute of Technology will work with industries and government agencies to develop practical solutions for reducing the impact of hurricane, tornado and severe wind events on buildings and infrastructure. The center also will educate the next generation of wind engineering professionals.

Read the FULL STORY<https://www.designsafe-ci.org/community/news/2019/may/nsf-funded-wind-research-center-reduce-property-damage-protect-community/>.

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Buildings that withstand tsunami wave inundation

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For World Oceans Day, NSF promoted one of the exciting projects underway at the NHERI OSU experimental facility<https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1519679>. NHERI researchers are using the O.H. Hinsdale Wave Research Laboratory wave tank to test the structural vulnerabilities of buildings in coastal areas that are prone to wave inundation from tsunamis and other storms.

NSF’s Discovery Files podcast<https://www.nsf.gov/news/mmg/mmg_disp.jsp?med_id=185127> and 4 Awesome Discoveries YouTube channel<https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=3ADUwsSbW4w> both highlight the project’s experiments that compare the performance of two types of buildings exposed to stronger and stronger waves — and the tests reveal that stilts may be key.

The project is #1661315, Collaborative Research: Wave, Surge, and Tsunami Overland Hazard, Loading and Structural Response for Developed Shorelines<https://nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1661315&HistoricalAwards=false>. Researchers from Oregon State University, Notre Dame University and the University of Southern California hope to improve coastal building design, mitigate coastal damage and enable communities to make better, risk-informed decisions.

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In Memoriam: Jon Peterka 1941–2019

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Friends and colleagues mourn the loss of the remarkable wind engineer Jon Peterka. He died May 21, 2019, at age 77.

Jon joined the Civil Engineering Department at Colorado State University as a professor in 1971. In 1977 he received the Honors Prof Award and retired as a professor in 1995. His research and contract activities revolved around wind engineering, including testing of small-scale models in a boundary layer wind tunnel capable of simulating atmospheric winds at model scale.

He was particularly active in the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). From 1985 until 2015 Jon served on the ASCE committee that wrote the wind load provisions of ASCE Standard 7, which forms the basis for most local building codes in the United States. As part of this activity, he performed research at CSU that changed the basis for the design wind map to a peak gust speed. For this research he was awarded the Raymond C. Reese Prize in 1999, one of the most prestigious awards given by ASCE. In 2017, the Structural Engineers Association of Colorado granted Jon honorary membership for outstanding service to the profession of structural engineering. He was only the third person to receive this award.

READ MORE<https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/ft-collins-co/jon-peterka-8721894>

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