Gaithersburg, MD
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is pleased to announce its second annual Disaster Resilience Symposium. Please also share with your colleagues in the Fire Research Group.
The symposium will be held on August 7-8, 2019 at NIST in Gaithersburg, MD. The symposium will feature presentations from over a dozen grant awardees funded by NIST and from NIST researchers on the latest findings from related internal projects. Topics will include disaster and failure studies, earthquake engineering, wind engineering, community resilience, and wildland-urban interface fires.
Development of Tornado Design Criteria for Buildings and Shelters Subject to Tornado Induced Loads
Improving Disaster Resilience Through Scientific Data Collection with UAV Swarms
Seismic Assessment, Retrofit Strategies and Policy Implications for Vulnerable Existing Steel Buildings
Integrating Aging Effects in Performance-Based Seismic Design and Assessment of Reinforced Concrete Structures
Resilience of Steel Moment Frame Systems with Deep Slender Column Sections
Coastal Inundation Events in Developed Regions
Decision-Oriented Column Simulation Capabilities for Enhancing Disaster Resilience of Reinforced Concrete Buildings
Liquefaction-Targeted Ground Motion Parameters
Improving Disaster Resilience by Quantifying WUI Community Ember Exposure
Biomacromolecules as Flame Retardants for Wood-Based Construction
Temperature Measurements of Airborne Firebrands
Development of Methodology for Determination of Ignition Propensity by Firebrands in Wildland-Urban Interface
The symposium keynote speakers will be Prof. Albert Simeoni of Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Dr. James Harris of J.R. Harris & Company. Both internationally recognized keynote speakers will share their perspectives on how we can enhance the resilience of US communities.
A flyer of the event can be found here: https://www.nist.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2019/05/21/symposium_2019.pdf.
Registration is free and is now open. For more information, go to: https://www.nist.gov/news-events/events/2019/08/2019-disaster-resilience-symposium.