Earthquake Engineering
Research Program
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Earthquake Engineering
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The objective of the Earthquake Engineering Research Program is to reduce damage from a potentially devastating earthquake by advancing state-of-the-art knowledge of earthquake hazard assessment, seismic design, and remediation of Corps infrastructure, and by developing technical capabilities to improve rapid Corps response to earthquake-induced life-threatening emergencies. In spite of major advances over the last 25 years, serious gaps still exist in the areas of earthquake hazard predictions, site characterization for seismically sensitive parameters, constitutive behavior and material properties of rock, soils, and composite (reinforced) materials under seismic loads, and the stress and deformation responses of sites and facilities to seismic loading. Economical remediation and defensive design techniques are needed, in addition to careful calibration of fast advancing numerical methods to actual field performance. In order to address these issues, the Army Corps of Engineers is funding a consistent Earthquake Engineering Research Program (EQEN) which will produce design tools and criteria to incorporate innovative measures for increasing the seismic safety of Corps and other public facilities. Research areas have been prioritized and are being studied within funding constraints to improve hazard assessment, ground response prediction, seismic design and remediation techniques; to assemble a database of relevant information for assessing
site behavior under seismic excitation; to advance in situ and laboratory testing technology; to develop constitutive models for seismic deformation behavior of these materials; to develop efficient numerical techniques to compute seismically-induced
stresses and movements and calibrate these techniques to field performance; to develop economical remediation techniques for existing Corps infrastructure. |
| E-mail contact for additional information: GSL-INFO@erdc.usace.army.mil U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center |
Geotechnical and Structures Laboratory Geosciences & Strructures Division (EGGB & GEEB Only)
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