NEESR Planning/Collaborative Research: Liquefaction Experiments and Analysis Projects (LEAP) for Validation

NEESR 规划/合作研究：用于验证的液化实验和分析项目 (LEAP)

• 批准号: 1344619
• 负责人: Mourad Zeghal
• 金额: $ 13.55万
• 依托单位: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-10-01 至 2016-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1344619&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NEESR; Planning; Collaborative; Research; Liquefaction

The main objective of this planning project is to lay the groundwork and to conduct preliminary research and preparation activities for a subsequent NEESR2 proposal to produce a high quality experimental data, as well as validate and develop confidence in the computational tools used for liquefaction analysis. The ultimate goal of the project is to advance the current understanding and computational predictive capabilities of the liquefaction phenomenon and its consequences on civil infrastructure systems through integrated centrifuge experiments and numerical simulations. The essential elements of this planning project consist of: a) a planning workshop to identify a group of boundary value problems and the material(s) of choice (e.g., type of sand) in the subsequent centrifuge tests of the NEESR2 project, b) an extensive and careful review and compilation of the experimental data available in the NEEShub and other relevant databases, c) preliminary class-C numerical simulations to begin the process of assessing the modeling capabilities currently available in the research community and geotechnical practice, d) design of a series of centrifuge tests that simulate a set of boundary value problems of interest to geotechnical practice with an increasing order of complexity, e) a prediction exercise symposium that leverages the results of the centrifuge tests that will be conducted by our international collaborators in the UK, Japan, and China, and f) development of validation metrics, tools, and protocols to assess the reliability of computational models.This planning project and the follow-on NEESR2 project will provide high quality validation data that will reduce the need for certain routine experiments and hence allow more resources to be used on experiments that explore new features of soil behavior. In turn, validated numerical modeling techniques and high confidence in their predictive capabilities will reduce the dependence of the profession on large scale costly experiments. The project will provide a rare opportunity for collaboration with the international community on a research topic that is of critical value to the international geotechnical engineering community. Three graduate students will participate in the project and will be trained in physical and numerical modeling of liquefiable soils. The three institutions will continue and build on their current outreach efforts to attract members of under-represented groups to participate in the project as graduate students. The project will establish an experimental dataset and a formal protocol for validation of our simulation tools to fully elucidate their capabilities and limitations. These capabilities and limitations are essential for intelligent management and maintenance of our infrastructure. Data from this project will be archived and made available to the public through the NEES data repository. This award is part of the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP).

该规划项目的主要目标是为后续的NEESR2提案奠定基础并进行初步研究和准备活动，以产生高质量的实验数据，并验证和建立对用于液化分析的计算工具的信心。 该项目的最终目标是通过综合离心机实验和数值模拟，提高目前对液化现象及其对民用基础设施系统影响的理解和计算预测能力。 该规划项目的基本要素包括：a) 规划研讨会，以确定 NEESR2 项目后续离心机测试中的一组边值问题和选择的材料（例如沙子类型），b)对 NEEShub 和其他相关数据库中可用的实验数据进行广泛而仔细的审查和汇编，c) 初步 C 类数值模拟，以开始评估研究界和岩土工程实践中当前可用的建模能力的过程，d) 设计的一个一系列离心机测试，模拟一组岩土工程实践中感兴趣的边值问题，其复杂性逐渐增加，e) 一个预测练习研讨会，利用我们在英国的国际合作者将进行的离心机测试结果，日本、中国，以及 f) 开发验证指标、工具和协议来评估计算模型的可靠性。该规划项目和后续的 NESR2 项目将提供高质量的验证数据，从而减少某些常规实验的需要从而允许更多的资源可用于探索土壤行为新特征的实验。 反过来，经过验证的数值建模技术和对其预测能力的高度信心将减少该行业对大规模昂贵实验的依赖。 该项目将为与国际社会就对国际岩土工程界具有重要价值的研究课题进行合作提供难得的机会。三名研究生将参加该项目，并接受可液化土壤物理和数值建模方面的培训。 这三个机构将继续并以目前的推广工作为基础，吸引代表性不足群体的成员作为研究生参与该项目。 该项目将建立一个实验数据集和一个正式的协议来验证我们的模拟工具，以充分阐明其功能和局限性。这些功能和限制对于我们的基础设施的智能管理和维护至关重要。 该项目的数据将被存档并通过 NEES 数据存储库向公众开放。 该奖项是国家地震减灾计划（NEHRP）的一部分。