Projects
Prospective Piggyback Projects for 2008
July 31 - August 16- Location: Portland, OR and Seattle, WA
- Principal Investigator: Robert A. Williams
- Equipment: Thumper
- Location: South Carolina
- Principal Investigator: Glenn J. Rix
- Equipment: T-Rex
- Location: Garner Valley, CA
- Principal Investigator: Jacobo Bielak
- Equipment: Liquidator
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Subsurface Structure of the Santa Rosa Plain, California, from High-Resolution Seismic-Reflection Data
- Principal Investigator: Robert A. Williams, US Geological Survey (USGS)
- Imaging the upper 1 km of the sedimentary basin underlying the Santa Rosa Plain in California for a 10-km long P-wave seismic reflection profile.
- NEEScentral: NEES-2007-0392
- Component Institutions:
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High-Fidelity Site Characterization in the Garner Valley
- Principal Investigator: Jacobo Bielak, Carnegie Mellon University
- Develop the capability for characterizing detailed geological structure and mechanical properties by means of integrated in-situ field testing techniques, observation of earthquake ground motion, and inversion-based modeling.
- NEEScentral: NEES-2007-0391
- Component Institutions:
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State and Properties of Recently Liquefied Sands and the Associated Quality Assurance (QA) Metric for Evaluating Remedially Densified Sands that Accounts for Aging Effects
- Principal Investigator: Russell A. Green, University of Michigan
- Development of quality assurance metrics which take aging effects of recently liquefied sands into account.
- NEEScentral: NEES-2006-0166
- Component Institutions:
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Seismic Risk Mitigation for Port Systems
- Principal Investigator: Glenn Rix, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Determining the performance of port system and the associated uncertainties to be used as the basis for seismic risk mitigation decisions.
- NEEScentral: NEES-2005-0086
- Component Institutions:
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In Situ Determination of Soil Modulus and Damping as a Function of Level of Strain
- Principal Investigator: Giovanna Biscontin, Texas A&M University
- Linear and nonlinear dynamic testing of soils to refine and calibrate numerical simulations.
- NEEScentral: NEES-2006-0163
- Component Institutions:
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Low-Frequency Surface Wave Testing Methodology
- Principal Investigator: Brent L. Rosenblad, University of Missouri-Columbia
- Develop and utilize a low-frequency surface wave testing methodology for effective and efficient characterization of the stiffness structure of very deep sediments.
- NEEScentral: NEES-2006-0164
- Component Institutions:
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Prediction of Dynamic Response of Spread Footings on Sand
- Principal Investigator: Dennis R. Hiltunen, University of Florida
- Compare the measured and predicted response of three shallow foundations located on a thoroughly characterized site.
- NEEScentral: NEES-2006-0171
- Component Institutions:
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Collaborative Research: Using NEES as a Testbed for Studying Soil-Foundation-Structure-Interaction
- Principal Investigator: Sharon L. Wood, University of Texas at Austin
- This collaborative project addresses one of the most critical needs in earthquake engineering today: improved knowledge of soil-foundation-structure-interaction (SFSI).
- NEEScentral: NEES-2005-0088
- Component Institutions:
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Collaborative Study of Determination of Intermediate (100 m) and Deep (300 m) Shear Wave Velocity Profiles for the Community Velocity Model
- Principal Investigator: Kenneth H Stokoe II, University of Texas at Austin
- Contribute to the development of a community velocity model of the Salt Lake Valley basin.
- NEEScentral: NEES-2006-0173
- Component Institutions:
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Collaborative Study in the Mississippi Embayment
- Principal Investigator: Joan Gomberg, US Geological Survey (USGS)
- Provide high-resolution images of the sediment structure in the Mississippi embayment, which will in turn provide key constraints on earthquake hazard assessments in this large, at risk area.
- NEEScentral: NEES-2006-0167
- Component Institutions:
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