NHERI Monthly Recap, August 2020

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Upcoming Events
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August 31
MECHS Webinar | HS 201: Developing Real-time Hybrid Simulation for Wave-Structure Interaction<https://www.designsafe-ci.org/learning-center/training/workshops/mechs/hs-201-real-time-hybrid-simulation-wave-structure-interaction/>
Webinar
Sponsor: Multihazard Engineering Collab. on Hybrid Simulation (MECHS)<https://mechs.designsafe-ci.org>

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September 10
GEER Webinar | Turning Disaster into Knowledge<https://primetime.bluejeans.com/a2m/register/jkaczrty>
Webinar
Sponsor: Geotechincal Extreme Events Reconnaisssance (GEER, CONVERGE)<http://www.geerassociation.org/>

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September 14
MECHS Webinar | HS 201: Advances in Multi-Axial Real-Time Hybrid Simulation<https://www.designsafe-ci.org/learning-center/training/workshops/mechs/hs-201-advances-multi-axial-real-time-hybrid-simulation/>
Webinar
Sponsor: Multihazard Engineering Collab. on Hybrid Simulation (MECHS)<https://mechs.designsafe-ci.org>

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September 21 - September 22
NHERI @ UC San Diego Joint Academia-Industry Workshop<http://nheri.ucsd.edu/workshops/2020JointAcademiaIndustry/WorkshopRegistration.html>
Virtual
Sponsor: NHERI UCSD Experimental Facility<https://ucsd.designsafe-ci.org>

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September 28 - September 29
UF NHERI Virtual Workshop Series<https://www.designsafe-ci.org/learning-center/training/workshops/uf-ef/virtual-workshop-series/>
Virtual
Sponsor: NHERI UF Experimental Facility<https://ufl.designsafe-ci.org>

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December 7- December 11
AGU Fall Meeting<https://agu.org/fall-meeting>
Virtual
Sponsor: American Geophysical Union (AGU)<https://agu.org>

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NHERI is monitoring the status of upcoming hazards engineering events in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and will continue to provide a community calendar when regular schedules resume.

AUGUST 2020
Catch up with community happenings in NHERI's Monthly Recap.

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

  *   Smallegan awarded 2020 early-career research fellowship by National Academies' Gulf Research Program
  *   Support NHERI online
  *   Engineers who engage: Elaina Sutley
  *   MECHS: Another special issue on hybrid simulation
  *   Innovation Award for SimCenter's Kareem
  *   SimCenter article: third-most read in Earthquake Spectra Journal
  *   Top article in Natural Hazards Engineering News

Why haven't we heard from your team? Send us a story:
Email nheri.communications at gmail.com<mailto:nheri.communications at gmail.com> or Slack #Communications.

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Smallegan awarded 2020 early-career research fellowship by National Academies' Gulf Research Program

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The Gulf Research Program of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine recently announced the 20 recipients of its 2020 Early-Career Research Fellowships<https://www.nationalacademies.org/gulf/fellowships-and-grants/early-career-research-fellowship>.

Among them is Stephanie Smallegan, assistant professor of Coastal Engineering at the University of South Alabama, where she specializes in coastal natural hazards. Smallegan also chairs the User Forum<https://www.designsafe-ci.org/community/user-forum/> for the Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure<https://www.designsafe-ci.org/>, NHERI.

Read the FULL STORY<https://www.designsafe-ci.org/community/news/2020/august/smallegan-awarded-2020-early-career-research-fellowship/>

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Support NHERI online

Next time you find yourself combing through Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn, consider supporting NSF-funded natural hazards research by following and engaging with NHERI.

NHERI’s social sites post and share recently published research papers, job opportunities, workshop announcements, professional honors, natural hazard videos — even a few jokes. Point being, if you are active on a social network, why not engage with NHERI?

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NHERIDesignSafe<https://twitter.com/NHERIDesignSafe> and the NHERI Community list<https://twitter.com/NHERIDesignSafe/lists/nheri-community>

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Engineers who engage: Elaina Sutley

Each month, the NHERI Monthly Recap features a researcher who successfully communicates their work in natural hazards with colleagues, industry and the general public.

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In many ways, University of Kansas engineer Elaina Sutley is a typical researcher. She publishes in peer-reviewed journals and other technical periodicals, and she presents at conferences and meetings.

But for Sutley, another key to communicating her professional undertakings and achievements is the Sutley Research Group<http://people.ku.edu/~e244j869> website, which she keeps current. The site enables anyone — colleagues, prospective students, practicing engineers, the media — to discover her expertise<http://people.ku.edu/~e244j869/projects.html>. She includes the link in her email signature and features it in her LinkedIn profile<https://www.linkedin.com/in/elaina-sutley-06168649/>.

>From early in her career, Sutley made it a practice to share professional accomplishments with her university’s communications team. “The engineering school shares faculty news on its Facebook and Twitter accounts, and if significant enough, in the annual magazine, Kansas Engineer,” she says. Her research made the cover of the Fall 2019 issue<https://issuu.com/ku_engineering/docs/kansas_engineering_-_fall_2019_-_final>. To date, the University of Kansas newsletter, KU Today, has produced five articles highlighting her research — and numerous other stories about Sutley’s awards, honors and outreach work<https://news.ku.edu/search/node/sutley%20type%3Aku_news_article_official>.

Read the FULL STORY<https://www.designsafe-ci.org/community/news/2020/july/engineers-who-engage-elaina-sutley/>

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MECHS: Another special issue on hybrid simulation

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A new Special Issue on Hybrid Simulation for Multi-Hazard Engineering<https://www.inderscience.com/info/inarticletoc.php?jcode=ijlcpe&year=2020&vol=4&issue=1/2/3> has been published in the International Journal of Lifecycle Performance Engineering.

The issue’s guest editors are NHERI researchers Brian M. Phillips, Wei Song, and Shirley J. Dyke.

Topics to explore in the include:

  *   Developments in Enabling Technologies
  *   Innovative Multi-hazard Applications
  *   Uncertainty Quantification and Reliability Analyses

Find this and another recent special issue on the MECHS website:  https://mechs.designsafe-ci.org/.

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Innovation Award for SimCenter's Kareem

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Wiley-Blackwell publishers announced that the 2019 Hojjat Adeli Award for Innovation in Computing was awarded to Xihaier Luo and Ahsan Kareem for their paper titled “Deep convolutional neural networks for uncertainty propagation in random fields.” The award is granted annually to the most innovative paper published in the previous volume.

Read the FULL STORY<https://simcenter.designsafe-ci.org/news/2020/august/2019-hojjat-adeli-award/?edit>.

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SimCenter article: third-most read in Earthquake Spectra Journal

In the past six months, the third-most read article in Earthquake Spectra was “An open-source framework for regional earthquake loss estimation using the city-scale nonlinear time history analysis,” which features the NSF NHERI SimCenter workflow for seismic damage simulation and loss prediction of buildings in an urban area.

Read the FULL STORY<https://simcenter.designsafe-ci.org/news/2020/august/earthquake-spectra-article/>.

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Top article in Natural Hazards Engineering News

For the month of August, an article on wind-hazard mitigation and RTHS testing was the most clicked-on news item in NHERI’s Natural Hazards Engineering Newsletter. Subscribe<https://designsafe-ci.us16.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=dc90d9824e5a18416dfe678e8&id=d2f37f2d68> for weekly news and research stories.

Assessment of wind-induced vibration mitigation in a tall building with damped outriggers using real-time hybrid simulations<https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0141029619308600?via%3Dihub>

Engineering Structures, February 2020

This study, performed at the NHERI Lehigh experimental facility<https://lehigh.designsafe-ci.org/facility/overview/>, examines the ability of damping devices placed between outrigger trusses and perimeter columns to mitigate dynamic vibrations in a tall building structure. The implementation of this approach to mitigate wind-induced vibrations for a 40-story building is assessed via a series of real-time hybrid simulations (RTHS), in which a numerical model of the complete building actively interfaces with physical dampers in the laboratory via actuators. In a RTHS, the overall structure is divided into analytical and experimental substructures, where the latter is challenging to model numerically and therefore evaluated in the laboratory as the experimental substructure. The experimental substructure for the RTHS in this study includes two full-scale nonlinear viscous dampers, and the rest of the building is modeled numerically as the analytical substructure.

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