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The Engineering Laboratory at NIST, Gaithersburg, will be hosting its third annual symposium as a virtual only event on July 20-21, 2021 featuring the Disaster Resilience Grant Research Program recipients from 2019.
Recipients will present their research and findings from their awards from topics related to Disaster and Failure Studies, National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program, Wind Impact Reduction, and Reduced Ignition of Building Components in Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) Fires Project.
Keynote Speakers TBD
Check back for updates!
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Dates: July 20 - July 21, 2021
Note: Times listed are ET
Agenda (Printable PDF)
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Day 1: July 20, 2021 |
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11:00am ET |
Keynote - TBD |
TBD |
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12:00 pm ET |
30 min break |
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12:30 pm ET |
NIST Statutory Programs Roundtable |
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Acting Director, Disaster & Failure Studies, NIST |
Maria Dillard |
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Director, National Windstorm Impact Reduction Program, NIST |
Scott Weaver |
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Chief, Fire Research Division, NIST |
Nelson Bryner |
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Director, National Earthquake Hazard Reduction Program, NIST |
Steve McCabe |
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1:30pm ET |
1 hr break |
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Day 1 Session 1 |
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Track 1: Wind |
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Moderator: TBD |
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2:30pm ET |
Measurement of Near-Surface Pressure, Wind and Wind-Induced Load Characteristics Using Novel Sensors in Thunderstorm, Tornado, and Tornado-Like Environments |
Franklin T. Lombardo (University of Illinois) |
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3:00pm ET |
Spatiotemporal Maps of Damaging Winds from Integrated Remote and In Situ Observations |
Michael Biggerstaff (University of Oklahoma) |
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3:30pm ET |
Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) System and LIDAR Experiments for the Characterization of Strong Wind Loads on Non-Structural Components and Near-Surface Wind Profiles |
Chelakara Subramanian, Jean-Paul Pinelli, Steven Lazarus (Florida Institute of Technology) |
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4:00pm ET |
Innovative Measurement and Modeling of Dynamical Social and Health Effects of Windstorms |
Daan Liang (University of Alabama) |
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4:30pm ET |
4-D Measurement and Modeling of Engineering-Relevant Windstorm Characteristics |
John Schroeder (Texas Tech University) |
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5:00pm ET |
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Day 2: July 21, 2021 |
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11:00am ET |
Keynote - TBD |
TBD |
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12:00pm ET |
30 min break |
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Day 2 Session 1 |
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Track 2: Earthquake/DFS |
Speaker |
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Moderator: TBD |
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12:30pm ET |
Seismic Rehabilitation of Existing Unreinforced Masonry Buildings |
Andreas Stavridis (Research Foundation for SUNY) |
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1:00pm ET |
Designing for and Assessing Functional Recovery in Seismic Retrofit of Existing Concrete Buildings: A Framework |
Abbie B. Liel, Maria Koliou (University of Colorado / Texas A&M) |
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1:30pm ET |
Seismic Assessment and Retrofit Methods for Existing Non-Ductile Reinforced Concrete Wall Structures |
Juan Murcia-Delso, Ioannis Koutromanos (University of Texas at Austin / Virginia Tech) |
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2:00pm ET |
Leveraging Uncertain Disaster Field Data for Community-Scale Assessment of Connected Buildings and Lifelines |
Iris Tien (Georgia Tech Research Corporation) |
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2:30pm ET |
1 hr break |
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Day 2 Session 2 |
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Track 3: WUI |
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Moderator: TBD |
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3:30pm ET |
Assessing long-range firebrand impingement rates in recent WUI wildfire events |
Janice Coen (University Corporation for Atmospheric Research) |
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4:00pm ET |
Development of a Fundamental Model for Ignition of Structural Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) Fuels Subjected to Firebrand Attack |
Michael Gollner, Stanislav Stoliarov (University of California, Berkeley / University of Maryland) |
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4:30pm ET |
Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) System and LIDAR Experiments for the Characterization of Strong Wind Loads on Non-Structural Components and Near-Surface Wind Profiles |
Chelakara Subramanian, Jean-Paul Pinelli, Steven Lazarus (Florida Institute of Technology) |
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5:00pm ET |
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