Advancing Earthquake Engineering Research through Cyberinfrastructure
Publication: Journal of Structural Engineering
Volume 139, Issue 7
Abstract
This paper describes the cyberinfrastructure (CI) of the George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) and examines the evidence that this infrastructure is facilitating earthquake engineering research. Among the key features of the CI are the NEES Project Warehouse (PW), which is a data repository for earthquake engineering, an environment that supports the use of tools for web-based data analysis and simulation, and tools that support research collaboration. The value that such CI offers to the user community is discussed. The CI also gathers a myriad of usage statistics, some of which are presented in this paper. Among them are the number of users, pageviews, recorded NEES projects, and other stored resources. This information demonstrates that the CI is used significantly and increasingly so.
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Acknowledgments
The authors thank JoAnn Browning from the University of Kansas, Rachelle Howell from the University of Texas at Austin, and Juan Caicedo from the University of South Carolina for their helpful comments. This work is supported in part by the NSF under Cooperative Agreement CMMI-0927178.
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Journal of Structural Engineering
Volume 139 • Issue 7 • July 2013
Pages: 1099 - 1111
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© 2013 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Received: Oct 31, 2011
Accepted: Aug 30, 2012
Published online: Jun 14, 2013
Published in print: Jul 1, 2013
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