First meeting in renewed earthquake-engineering research collaborations between the U.S. and Japan, January 2025

January 29-30, 2025 | 8:00am - 5:00pm | Miki City, Japan

Event Description

In January 2024, at a planning meeting hosted by the NHERI UC San Diego facility, an important new phase of the U.S.-Japan earthquake engineering research collaboration began. Following this productive reunion, in July 2024 a Memorandum of Cooperation was signed by Japan’s National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience (NIED) and Purdue University on behalf of the National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI) Network Coordination Office.

Today, the NHERI NCO is pleased to announce the 1st Research Collaboration meeting in this new phase of partnership between researchers from NHERI and NIED. The meeting will be held in Miki City, Japan, near Kobe City, on January 29-30, 2025.

NHERI-NIED/E-Defense
Research Collaboration Meeting
Miki City E-Defense Research Complex Inc., Kobe, Japan
January 29-30, 2025

Leading researchers from both countries, as well as representatives from NSF and NHERI in the U.S. and NIED and E-Defense in Japan, are invited to attend and discuss in plenary and breakout sessions future research plans under the NHERI and E-Defense collaboration. We envision annual workshop meetings that will facilitate planning of the overall research program, disseminate findings, and encourage participation in collaborative research.

We urge all NHERI researchers interested in pursuing collaborations in the scope of research collaboration, described below, to attend.

A History of Research Collaboration

We firmly believe that collaboration between American and Japanese researchers provides an incredibly strong mechanism for accelerating the pace of discovery and development in engineering that is needed to prevent natural hazards from becoming societal disasters. Specifically, this cooperation focuses on earthquake engineering with interest on the impact that other hazards are having on our communities, including cascading effects. U.S. and Japanese researchers have a history of smooth and effective collaboration for more than a half century, which continued between NEES and E-Defense, and then was followed by the NHERI and E-Defense partnership. Now, we are enthusiastic to collaborate with the new capabilities made possible in NHERI by NSF and E-Defense by NIED.

Travel Support

Limited funds are available from NSF through the NCO NHERI award to support travel to the meeting for early career researchers. Travel costs will be reimbursed up to $2,800. See details below and complete the form on this page to register and request travel support by Noon Eastern Time on October 31, 2024.

Selection of individuals to receive travel support will be based on:

  1. Technical expertise and interest in each of the three major themes identified at the planning meeting under this collaboration:
    • Theme 1: Tests to be conducted at E-Defense and/or NHERI facilities
    • Theme 2: Computational Modeling and Simulation and Data Sharing
    • Theme 3: impact that other hazards are having on our communities including cascading effects.
  2. Attracting new researchers and students to participate in US-Japan collaborative research.
  3. Insuring that NHERI/E-Defense research collaboration efforts benefit from a diverse and geographically distributed cross-section of the earthquake engineering community, including women, disabled individuals and under-represented minorities.

Contact

For additional information about the event, including planned testing, please contact Julio A. Ramirez, at ramirez@purdue.edu.

 

Large-scale experiment on E-Defense shake table: Test #2, Tokyo Metropolitan Resilience Project — Reinforced Concrete Structure, PI: Prof. Kusunoki. During the first phase of the NHERI-NIED/E-Defense collaboration, Dec. 2019. (Image: NHERI-NCO)

Event Registration

Thank you for your interest. Registration for this event has closed.