NHERI Monthly Recap, May 2020

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Upcoming Events
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CANCELED

May 18 - May 20
Disaster Ethics Conference 2020<https://events.ruc.dk/disasterethics/home.html>
Copenhagen, Denmark
Sponsor: Roskilde University<https://ruc.dk/en> and York Univesrity<https://yorku.ca>

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POSTPONED

May 26 - May 29 TBD
EMI Conference and Probabilistic Mechanics & Reliability Conference<https://www.emi-conference.org/>
New York, New York
Sponsor: ASCE<https://www.asce.org/>

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June 2
TAMEST Natural Hazards Summit<https://tamest.org/news/tamest-to-host-natural-hazards-summit/>
Lubbock, Texas
Sponsor: TAMEST<https://TAMEST.org>

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June 29 - June 30
NHERI Virtual Presentation for Early Career Faculty<https://designsafe-ci.org/learning-center/virtual-2020/>
Webinar
Sponsor: NHERI ECO<https://designsafe-ci.org/facilities/nco/eco/>

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July 12 - July 15
45th Annual Natural Hazards Research and Applications Workshop<https://hazards.colorado.edu/workshop/2020>
Broomfield, Colorado
Sponsor: Natural Hazards Center<https://hazards.colorado.edu>

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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.

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

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

  *   Updates on the NHERI REU and Summer Institute
  *   Kareem wins best paper for 2019 ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering
  *   SimCenter: new software, application updates
  *   A special issue dedicated to RTHS benchmark problem
  *   NHERI User Forum Update: 2020 user satisfaction survey, member elections
  *   SimCenter seeks feedback on state-of-art computational simulation report
  *   StEER reconnaissance work in the news
  *   Subscribe to NHERI's weekly Natural Hazards Engineering News

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

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Updates on the NHERI REU and Summer Institute

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2019 NHERI REU student, Haley Hostetter, with NCO Director, Julio Ramirez. Hostetter did her research project at the University of California, Berkeley-SimCenter.

Given NHERI site closures and travel bans due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the in-person NHERI REU Program and the Summer Institute for Early Career Faculty have been postponed.

A virtual NHERI Workshop for Early Career Faculty will take place online June 29, 2020. This program will introduce faculty to NHERI resources as well as give an overview of the NSF proposal process and the CAREER award. Information and registration can be found at:

https://www.designsafe-ci.org/learning-center/virtual-2020/

To introduce undergraduates to NHERI resources and the REU experience, an alternative virtual program will be held during the summer.

The ECO Committee is currently preparing features of the program and will communicate them to undergraduates interested in NHERI.

More details for both virtual programs will be posted in the DesignSafe Learning Center and will be communicated to the NHERI community via email. Thank you for your patience during these challenging times.

Questions? Please contact Karina Vielma, NHERI Education and Community Outreach, at karina.vielma at utsa.edu<mailto:karina.vielma at utsa.edu>.

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Kareem wins best paper for 2019 ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering

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The NHERI SimCenter directors are very pleased to congratulate Ahsan Kareem, a co-PI at the SimCenter and the Robert M. Moran Professor of Engineering in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering & Earth Sciences at the University of Notre Dame, on his most recent honor. Ahsan is the lead author of the Journal of Structural Engineering’s 2019 Best Journal Paper in Structural Hazards.

The paper is entitled: Generalized Wind Loading Chain: Time-Frequency Modeling Framework for Nonstationary Wind Effects on Structures<https://ascelibrary.org/doi/abs/10.1061/%28ASCE%29ST.1943-541X.0002376>.

This honor, like many others Kareem has received over his career, is a testament to his insight into structural engineering in the face of wind hazards.

Read the FULL STORY<https://bit.ly/2xjke2n>.

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SimCenter: new software, application updates

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Educators and researchers: the NHERI SimCenter is hard at work developing new software and updating existing applications to advance the field of natural hazards computational simulation.

Two new educational applications<https://simcenter.designsafe-ci.org/learning-tools/overview/> include S3hark<https://simcenter.designsafe-ci.org/learning-tools/site-specific-seismic-hazard-analysis-research-kit-s3hark/> and SWIM<https://simcenter.designsafe-ci.org/learning-tools/shear-wall-intelligent-modeling-swim/>, which have engaging interfaces to facilitate learning important modeling strategies.

Expanding on artificial intelligence applications, the SimCenter released two research tools that are implemented at the back-end of several SimCenter applications.

Building Recognition using Artificial Intelligence at Large Scale (BRAILS<https://simcenter.designsafe-ci.org/research-tools/brails/>) utilizes machine learning and deep learning to create enhanced building inventory databases of cities, which helps to inform regional simulations.

Building Information Models to Structural Analysis Models Using Artificial Intelligence (BIMtoSAM.AI<https://simcenter.designsafe-ci.org/research-tools/bimtosam_ai/>) creates a finite element model of a wall for structural analysis based on input from a building information model.

For a summary of recently updated tools, visit the SimCenter’s recent software roundup page<https://bit.ly/35QJ4Sn>.

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A special issue dedicated to RTHS benchmark problem

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Benchmark problems have been especially useful in enabling a community of researchers to leap forward on a given topic, distill the lessons learned, and identify the capabilities and limitations of various approaches.

This Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing special Issue on the Real-Time Hybrid Simulation Benchmark Problem is dedicated to advancing the field of real-time hybrid simulation (RTHS), considering a wide range of issues critical to its effective use.

The collection of manuscripts assembled in this special issue represents the latest techniques and tools used in the RTHS community. We anticipate that the lessons learned with this benchmark problem will provide a clear pathway forward to more extensive use of RTHS methods as we seek to realistically and cost-effectively examine the performance of our civil infrastructure.

The special issue was published in the February 2020 issue of the journal Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing<https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/mechanical-systems-and-signal-processing/special-issue/10SNCQC0BKN>.

Special issue guest editors are:

  *   Daniel Gomez, Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia
  *   Shirley Dyke, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA
  *   Bill Spencer, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA

Visit the MECHS (Multi-Hazard Engineering Collaboratory for Hybrid Simulation)<https://bit.ly/2ySTBSo> website for more information about NSF-funded activities in the field of RTHS.

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NHERI User Forum Update: 2020 user satisfaction survey, member elections

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User Forum members: Elaina Sutley, outgoing Chair and Secretary, Nina Stark, outgoing Vice Chair, and Adda Athanasopoulos-Zekkos, member.

As the community voice within the governance of NHERI, the User Forum is responsible for conducting the annual community user satisfaction survey for NHERI users and publish a subsequent Annual Community Report.

This year, users of the NHERI experimental facilities will receive a survey link via email in mid-May or early June. The User Forum encourages users to complete the survey and forward the survey link to other NHERI users in their network, such as graduate students and co-PIs. Past user satisfaction survey reports can be found on the User Forum page on DesignSafe<https://www.designsafe-ci.org/community/user-forum/>.

Measuring user satisfaction and providing this feedback to the NHERI Council is critical to supporting the long-term sustainability of NHERI and its mission as a multidisciplinary and multi-hazard network.

Users of the NHERI experimental facilities should have received the survey link via email. The survey is also available from this link: https://okstatecas.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0DLucPr3ZLwPgCF.

Elections. Member elections are also ongoing as member terms expire for three User Forum Committee Members. Our governing body represents your voice within NHERI, so please cast your ballot to elect new members: https://designsafe-ci.org/community/user-forum/ballot-2020/. Voting ends June 6.

The User Forum is grateful for outgoing leaders Elaina Sutley (past Chair and Secretary), Nina Stark (past Vice Chair), and Adda Athanasopoulos-Zekkos (Member) for their three years of service.

About the User Forum. The User Forum is a NHERI-wide group focused on providing the NHERI Council with independent advice on community user satisfaction, priorities, and needs relating to the use and capabilities of NHERI. Members on the User Forum represent the scientific and engineering communities who use NHERI’s resources and services for research and/or educational purposes, but who are not directly affiliated with NHERI awardee institutions. User Forum membership spans academia and industry, the full breadth of civil engineering disciplines, the social sciences, and widespread hazard expertise including earthquakes, windstorms, and water events.

Questions about the User Forum? Email us at:

userforum-feedback at designsafe-ci.org<mailto:userforum-feedback at designsafe-ci.org>

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SimCenter seeks feedback on state-of-art computational simulation report

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In 2019, the NHERI SimCenter developed and released a report<https://simcenter.designsafe-ci.org/knowledge-hub/simcenter-reports/> on the state of art in computational simulation in natural hazards engineering. The report has been an important resource for the SimCenter to prioritize development of simulation tools and for NHERI researchers in general.

The SimCenter is in the process of updating the State-of-Art report to highlight key capabilities and gaps related to the simulation needs and research objectives outlined in the 2020 update of the NHERI Five-Year Science Plan<https://www.designsafe-ci.org/facilities/nco/science-plan/> and from other sources. To reflect the experiences and preferences of the broad community, your input is being sought for this update. Specifically, your feedback is requested on the content of last year’s report and recommendations on topics or tools to include in the upcoming version.

In addition to revising existing chapters, the report will be expanded to include new chapters that cover: (i) the use of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence to harvest, enhance and process data; and (ii) modeling the Socioeconomic Consequences of disasters, including recovery simulation and optimization of policies.

Read FULL DETAILS<https://simcenter.designsafe-ci.org/news/2020/april/simcenter-seeks-feedback/>. Access the QUESTIONNAIRE<https://forms.gle/ienngbcdQmSQoW7m6>.

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StEER reconnaissance work in the news

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The Structural Extreme Events Reconnaissance network (StEER) and its report on the March 2-3 tornadoes in Tennessee<https://bit.ly/3c55i72> recently was covered by the Nashville affiliate of Fox News. The event killed 26 people. The in-depth news article features a discussion with David Roueche, member of the StEER leadership team, who visited multiple sites in the affected area from March 9-13. Roueche discusses building code deficiencies in the damaged structures — in Nashville and in other U.S. regions prone to tornado winds.

Read the FULL STORY<https://bit.ly/2xnrZ7w>.

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