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Proceedings of the First NEES/E-Defense Workshop on Collapse Simulation of Reinforced Concrete Building Structures, 6-8 July, 2005, Berkeley, California

Moehle, Jack P.; Kabeyasawa, Toshimi

PEER-2005/10, Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center, University of California, Berkeley, 2005, pdf (400/P33/2005-10)

Research collaboration agreements for earthquake disaster prevention are in progress between U.S. and Japanese organizations: the George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) on the U.S. side, and the National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention of Japan (NIED) and the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan (MEXT). Collectively these organizations are known as the "NEES/E-Defense Earthquake Engineering Research Collaboration." The purpose of the joint research is to improve scientific knowledge and engineering practice in earthquake-resistant design and retrofit of built infrastructure by conducting experimental research in earthquake engineering using NEES facilities in the U.S. and E-Defense, the world's largest shaking table, located in Miki City outside Kobe, Japan. The First NEES/E-Defense Workshop on Collapse Simulation of Reinforced Concrete Building Structures was organized as a preliminary meeting towards possible collaboration in the field. The objectives of the workshop were (1) to identify past experimental and analytical research and the present state of knowledge and practice of collapse simulation; (2) to exchange information on ongoing research and future plans in related NEES and E-Defense projects; (3) to apply traditional and new analytical methodologies to the preliminary simulation of the full-scale test plan at E-Defense; and (4) to discuss future research needs and possible collaborations focused on collapse simulation. Twenty-five papers are published in the proceedings.

Available online: http://peer.berkeley.edu/publications/peer_reports/reports_2005/PEER_510_NEES_EDefense.pdf