George E. Brown, Jr.Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation

NEES GB Workshop

Prof. Julio RamirezNEEScomm center Director and NEES Chief Officer

NEEScomm PerspectiveDallas TXMarch 3, 2014

NEES MISSION

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Miyako City, 2011 Iwate Prefecture I-10 Los Angeles, 1994 Northridge CA

Accelerate improvements in seismic design and performance of the infrastructure by supporting efforts of NEES users to:

(a) improve PBD Procedures, evaluation methods & strengthening techniques (b) develop the next generation of researchers, educators, and engineers

NEES Strategic Plan at nees.org

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Vision: A global infrastructure network that improves the RESILIENCE of new and existing construction, and supports the education of the next generation of engineers and scientists.

Community

Research

Workforce Development

Knowledge Transfer

Public AwarenessAvailable at nees.org

NEES Strategic Plan

Aims

Partnerships and Collaborations

Formal Agreements with International Facilities• NIED/E-Defense,

Japan• PARI, Japan• CSRN, Canada• Tongji University

Multi-functional Shaking Table Array, China

China-NEES Research Collaboration• 4 annual

workshops and 6 new joint projects started on Disaster Resilience of the Urban Environment

Seismic Engineering Research Infrastructures for European Synergies (SERIES)• Data Exchanges

through the interoperability of databases

• Hybrid Simulation Collaborations

EERI Webinars-9 on Structures-1 on Tsunami-1 on Geotech-2 on NEEShub

tools

Wood Education Institute

Classes using Course

Management System and NEESlive.

SERIES Interoperability of Databases

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NEES Today

Community

NEES Laboratories

NEES Cyberinfrastructure

Access to world class laboratorieslinked through robust user-requirements driven Cyberinfrastructure

Integrates-Leverages-Broadens Participation

NEES- A new Paradigm for Research Collaboration

A fully integrated network of world-class laboratories powered by a robust and user-requirements driven CI:

(i) Coordinated scheduling, maintenance and calibration (ii) Uniform policies for access, safety and operation(iii) Sharing resources and best practices (iv) Benefits of scale

Shared-Use laboratories to experiment in ways that could not be done before by a broader community• 422 research projects- 174 from NSF; 248 from Industry and Shared-Use• 52% NSF and Shared-Use Projects with off-site PIs and Co-PIs in 2013 and 2014• 5 safety incidents in FY11, 3 in FY12 and 2 in FY13 with a target of 0• 4.5/5 user satisfaction survey and 98% equipment site utilization• 4 MoUs offering access to unique world class facilities and data sharing• Over 200 REUs, 85% pursuing advanced degrees- 53% female and 31% minority

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NEES Success Stories

Keri Ryan

Keri Ryan earned her PhD at University of California, Berkeley

and began her career as an Assistant Professor at Utah State

University in 2004. Prior to becoming involved in NEES, she was

inexperienced in the laboratory setting and had little

opportunity to pursue such endeavors locally. Her breakthrough

came when she became PI of the NEESR-SG project NEES TIPS:

Tools to Promote Widespread Implementation of Seismic

Isolation and Protective Systems. The NEES TIPS project, which is

nearing completion, has performed an interesting series of

experiments at University at Buffalo’s Structural Engineering and

Earthquake Simulation Laboratory (SEESL), UC Berkeley’s

nees@berkeley laboratory, and Japan’s Hyogo Earthquake

Engineering Research Center (E-Defense) through a cooperative

agreement between NEES and E-Defense. Ryan leveraged this

experience for another NSF project Collaborative Research: An

Innovative Gap Damper to Control Seismic Isolator

Displacements in Extreme Earthquakes. Through the NSF shared

use policy, this project will utilize the shake table array at

University of Nevada, Reno, where she is currently an Associate

Professor.

“Leading an experiment at E-Defense was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. The findings from these tests have accelerated understanding and unleashed a new set of challenges for continued functionality. The best thing about the NEES program is that it provides fair access to state-of-the-art experimental facilities to all researchers, and opportunities for cultural exchange.”

Knowledge TransferASCE NEES Special Issues28 NEES Research Papers Published, July & August 2013

NEES/EERI Research to Practice Webinarshttp://nees.org/education/for-professionals/researchtopracticeseries

900 plus registered attendees and 2,579 total attendance 338 webinar participants have applied for and been granted

PDH’s from EERIThe last five webinars:• Behavior and Design of Concrete-Filled Beam-

Columns (http://nees.org/resources/6326)• Development of Tsunami Design Provisions (

https://nees.org/resources/6277)• Performance, Analysis and Design of Flexural

Concrete Walls (https://nees.org/resources/5617)

• Using the NEES@UCSB Data in Research and Education (https://nees.org/resources/5456)

• Precast Concrete Walls for Seismic-Resistant Design (https://nees.org/resources/5075)

Public Awareness:NEES in the news

274 media mentions since Q1 FY 2013

Red dots show users browsing NEEShub while performing 1,428,026 web and 47,998 tool sessions between 8/2010 and 3/2014. Yellow dots represent users running simulations.

Global Reach of NEEShub > 200 countries

Project Warehouse- NEES data repositoryFY 2013

Data Re-Use Projects

John van de Lindt (Co-PI)Colorado State University

Nicolas Luco (Co-PI)United States Geological Survey

Yue Li (PI)Michigan Technological University

Ph.D. Students: Ruiqiang Song, Ruilong Han, Negar Nazari

NSF CMMI -1000567

Integration of Mainshock-Aftershock Sequences Into Performance-Based Engineering Using Publicly Available NEEShub Data

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Resource: Databases• Provides access to NEES and non-NEES data with

common theme• http://nees.org/resources/databases

• 158 users have accessed HPC resources through the NEEShub

• In FY13 >780,000 SUs used through XSEDE (Kraken, Ranger, and Stampede)

High Performance Computing (HPC)

* Notes: 1. SU: Service Unit- 1 SU = 1 core-hour (single processor hour) on the allocated resources.2. New Stampede allocation was not available until 2/14

Community – Network Wide EOT Collaborations

More than 25 papers and presentations• ASEE Annual Conference• Frontiers in Education• Ocean Sciences Annual Meeting• American Geophysical Union• National Conference on

Earthquake Engineering• QuakeSummit• National Science Teachers

AssociationAssessment InstrumentsEducational Modules

Public Awareness – NEES museum projects • Chicago Museum of Science and Industry

• Ithaca Sciencenter