Report of the Planning Meeting of NEES/E-Defense Collaborative Research on Earthquake Engineering (8th). Held in Miki, Hyogo, Japan on September 17-18, 2010

摘要

Following two prior meetings, the Eighth Planning Meeting of NEES/E-Defense Collaborative Research on Earthquake Engineering was convened during September 17 and 18, 2010. The meeting was attended by leading researchers from both countries as well as representatives from NSF, MEXT and other government agencies. In the plenary and breakout sessions of the meeting, thirty-two participants from the U.S. and forty participants from Japan discussed NEES/E-Defense collaboration in the second phase that started in 2010. This report contains a summary of the Eighth Planning Meeting along with the recommendations and resolutions reached by the participants. The appendices contain the list of participants, the meeting agenda and schedule, the materials presented during the plenary sessions, and summaries of the recommendations developed by individual breakout sessions where participants discussed in detail various scientific and engineering challenges that should be addressed during the second phase of the NEES/E-Defense collaboration.