NEESR-GC: Seismic Risk Mitigation for Port Systems (NEES-2005-0086)

<p><strong>Title:</strong> NEESR-GC: Seismic Risk Mitigation for Port Systems (NEES-2005-0086)</p> <p><strong>Year Of Curation: </strong>2012</p> <p><strong>Description: </strong>Earthquakes pose a significant threat to many U.S. seaports, which serve as crucial gateways for international trade. Current engineering practice for seismic risk reduction for port facilities is typically based on design or retrofit criteria for individual physical components (e.g., wharf structures) expressed in terms of allowable levels of force and/or displacement. However, the viability of a port following an earthquake depends not only on the performance of these individual components, but on their locations, redundancy, and physical and operational connectivity as well, that is, on the port system as a whole. This project integrates engineering, logistics, risk analysis, and decision sciences and uses the performance of the port system as the basis for seismic risk mitigation decisions. This holistic approach allows limited resources to be used more wisely. </p> <p><strong>Award: </strong>http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0402490</p> <p><strong>PIs & CoPIs: </strong>Glenn Rix, Domniki Asimaki, Ross Boulanger, Reginald DesRoches, Alan Erera, Patricia Gallagher, James LaFave, Dawn Lehman, Roberto Leon, Ellen Rathje, Charles Roeder, Stuart Werner, Andrew Whittle</p> <p><strong>Dates: </strong>August 01, 2000 - August 31, 2011</p> <p><strong>Organizations: </strong>Georgia Institute of Technology, GA, United States</p> <p><strong>Facilities: </strong><br /> Drexel University, PA, United States    <br /> University of Washington, WA, United States    <br /> Georgia Institute of Technology, GA, United States<br /> University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL, United States,<br /> State University of New York at Buffalo, NY, United States<br /> University of California, Davis, CA, United States<br /> University of Texas at Austin, TX, United States</p> <p><strong>Sponsor: </strong>NSF - 0402490 </p> <p><strong>Keywords: </strong>Liquefaction Remediation,Seismic Risk Mitigation,Port Systems,Pile-Wharf Connections</p> <p><strong>Publications: </strong><br /> "Effect of Prefabricated Vertical Drains on Pore Water Pressure Generation and Dissipation in Liquefiable Sand"<br /> Barry Goodno, "Shake Table Experiments for the Determination of the Seismic Response of Jumbo Container Cranes"</p> <nb:citations></nb:citations>