Two professors in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Philip Liu and Thomas O'Rourke, have been named to the management team for a new organization that will develop the management systems for the National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) during the decade 2004-2014.
This new organization has been assembled by the Consortium of Universities for Research in Earthquake Engineering (CUREE). The Civil Engineering Research Foundation of the American Society of Civil Engineers, and the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute are partners with CUREE in the $2 million project.
The two Cornell researchers will collaborate with the earthquake simulation project's principal investigator, Robert Reitherman, executive director of CUREE. Liu, professor of environmental engineering, is an expert in coastal engineering with special interest in modeling of tsunamis. O'Rourke, the Thomas R. Briggs Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, is an expert in geotechnical engineering and effects of earthquakes on ground failure and utility systems.
Advanced laboratory facilities at various universities are being developed for NEES, along with an Internet-based, high-performance network system. Cornell has been asked by the NSF to develop a proposal for advanced laboratory facilities for the NEES program.
The new consortium, the laboratory facilities and the network system will be operational by the fall of 2004. At that point, the NEES-funded laboratories, as well as other experimental or simulation facilities, and the engineering research community, will be able to function as a single virtual laboratory.
Further information can be obtained by consulting the CUREE web site at http://www.curee.org, or the new web site CUREE has established for NEES programwide projects at http://www.nees.org.
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