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The George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) is a network of 14 advanced laboratories (https://nees.org/sites-mainpage/laboratories) connected by a state-of-the-art cyberinfrastructure that fosters collaboration in research and education (https://nees.org/). In its ninth-year of operations, over 400 multi-year, multi-investigator projects have been completed or are in progress in NEES, yielding many advances in earthquake engineering and a wealth of valuable experimental data. The NEES platform for collaboration, NEEShub, provides convenient access to the NEES central data repository (Project Warehouse) and hosts a range of tools for data visualization, analysis, computational simulation, education, collaboration and hosts a rich set of resources aimed at disseminating new earthquake engineering knowledge to the profession as well as educating the next generation of researchers and practitioners. In this paper, brief descriptions of some of the many research, outreach, information technology, and educational accomplishments of NEES are given.
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NEES Operations is managed through a cooperative agreement between the National Science Foundation and Purdue University for the period of FY 2010–2014 [NSF Award (0927178) from the Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI) Division] under the supervision of Dr. Joy M. Pauschke, Program Director for the George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) Operations and Research Programs in the Directorate for Engineering. The findings, statements and opinions presented in this paper are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the National Science Foundation.
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Ramirez, J. (2015). The George E. Brown, Jr., Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES): Reducing the Impact of EQs and Tsunamis. In: Taucer, F., Apostolska, R. (eds) Experimental Research in Earthquake Engineering. Geotechnical, Geological and Earthquake Engineering, vol 35. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10136-1_1
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