Practitioner and Student Interaction 2004
- Sungsook Cho CM-2 Acceptable Consequences
The CM-2 Acceptable Consequences project has been investigating how community goal dynamics work in response to the demands from diverse community needs, with a special emphasis on safety and economic development. Using a 14-year baseline data (1989-2003) drawn from Carbondale, IL, the CM-2 project is developing a system dynamic model that demonstrates how the actual and desired levels of the community goals are affected by the resources (time and money) devoted to stakeholders, including local government, non-profit, and for-profit organizations. The travel funds were used for obtaining information from key informants and stakeholders that was critical for developing the best models.
- J. Alfredo Fernandez HD-1 Synthetic Earthquake Hazard
Funding was provided for travel to U.S. Geologic Survey, Menlo Park, CA to visit with Dr. David M. Boore and Dr. Walter Silva. The meeting was very helpful in solving some questions regarding current research about earthquake ground motion simulation.
- Jamie Padgett DS-7B Damage Functionality Relationships
Funding was provided for a visit to Seismic Systems and Engineering, Oakland, CA. The students' research objectives are to develop damage-functionality relationships for bridges, and to develop fragility curves for retrofitted bridges. These are both essential elements for network models in loss-estimation. A web-based survey has been developed to investigate the functionality of network components in terms of the damage level. Department of Transportation officials and consulting engineers participating in the survey will be queried as to the relationship between damage level and transportation restriction requirements (closure decisions). Participant responses will provide insight into the correlation between the level of damage to components and post-earthquake decisions by inspectors. Seismic Systems & Engineering Consultants has been working with Caltrans to investigate a similar issue with developing relationships between damage and functionality of area specific bridges. A visit to Seismic Systems & Engineering and interaction with those responsible for this work could help provide further insight into methodologies and issues to be considered.
