FOR RELEASE: Oct. 3, 2001
Contact: David BrandOffice: 607-255-3651E-Mail: [email protected]
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Two professors in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Cornell University, Philip Liu and Thomas O'Rourke, have been named to the team that will develop a new organization to manage the National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) during the decade 2004-2014.
The new organization will be developed by the Consortium of Universities for Research in Earthquake Engineering (CUREE). Partners with CUREE in the $2 million project are the Civil Engineering Research Foundation of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute.
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 utility systems.
Advanced laboratory facilities at 10 universities, including Cornell, are being developed for NEES, along with an Internet-based, high-performance network system. The new consortium, the laboratory facilities and the network system will be operational by the fall of 2004.
The goal is for the NEES laboratories -- as well as other experimental or simulation facilities and the engineering research community -- to be able to function as a single, virtual laboratory despite their geographic distribution,
Related World Wide Web sites: The following sites provide additional information on this news release. Some might not be part of the Cornell University community, and Cornell has no control over their content or availability.
CUREE : http://www.curee.org
NEES: http://www.nees.org
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