Abstract
With the aim of fostering the development of robust tools to simulate the impact of natural hazards on structures, lifelines, and communities, the Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure Computational Modeling and Simulation Center gathered 60 researchers, developers, and practitioners working in natural hazards engineering (NHE) for a workshop to prioritize research questions and identify community needs for data and computational simulation capabilities. Participants used their wide-ranging expertise in earthquake, coastal, and wind hazards from engineering, planning, data sciences, and social sciences perspectives to identify five major thrusts of recommended future work, including detailed suggestions for each: (1) development of housing and household recovery models; (2) integration of existing models into flexible computational workflows; (3) investment in the collection of high-value open data; (4) commitment to sharing and utilizing high-value data; and (5) development of versatile, multidisciplinary testbed studies. Participant responses and workshop data were analyzed with the help of an ontology that the authors designed to support data classification in a broad range of NHE applications. The paper also includes observations and suggestions for planning and conducting interactive workshops of this type.
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Some or all data, models, or code generated or used during the study are available in a repository online (Zsarnóczay et al. 2021) in accordance with funder data retention policies.
Acknowledgments
The authors thank every participant (see Table S1 for full list) for devoting 2 days of their time to share their ideas with the broader NHE community during the workshop. We are grateful to Corinna Fong and Matthew Schoettler for their help with the organization; to Rodrigo Costa, Rachel Davidson, Paolo Gardoni, Scott Miles, and Charles Vardeman II for their plenary presentations; and to Jack Baker and Tim Cockerill for faciliating discussions in the breakout rooms. Special thanks to Pablo Heresi, Preetish Kakoty, Maryia Markhvida, Omar Sediek, and Bingyu Zhao for their help with the data collection; and Tamika Bassman for the insightful feedback she provided about the manuscript. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1612843. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
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