An Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Building and Fire Research Laboratory Fiscal Year 2010 (2010) / Chapter Skim
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5 Measurement Science for Disaster-Resilient Structures and Communities
5 Measurement Science for Disaster-Resilient Structures and Communities
Pages 28-34
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The BFRL divisions and offices active in this area are the Materials and Construction Research Division, the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program Office, and the Office of Applied Economics. TECHNICAL MERIT RELATIVE TO STATE OF THE ART Earthquake Engineering Activities Mandated by NIST Leadership of the NEHRP NIST assumed the leadership of the NEHRP in 2005.
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It is appropriate that the effort related to nonlinear measurement science tools will be subject to peer review in the coming year. Through the NEHRP Consultants Joint Venture, 12 contract task orders have been issued on projects related to quantification of the seismic performance of building and other civil infrastructure systems.
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Disaster and Failure Events Studies and Data Archiving The initiative on Disaster and Failure Events Studies and Data Archiving is an outgrowth of the National Construction Safety Team Act of 2002, which authorizes NIST to establish and deploy teams to investigate building failures. This recent initiative builds on and organizes BFRL's previous episodic involvement in post-incident disaster and failure studies over the past three decades and provides a formal structure for archiving the lessons learned from those studies.
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The scope of the building performance data is structural failures, as mandated by Congress. The BFRL should consider collecting other data of interest to the building community and useful in the support of ongoing BFRL research programs, including information on the serviceability and durability of building products.
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ACHIEVEMENT OF OBJECTIVES AND IMPACT The Materials and Construction Research Division has excellent linkage with the BFRL mission. The work of the division's professional staff has achieved significant recognition in the building and codes and standards community, and the staff has been successful in moving research products into standards.
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The Disaster and Failure Events Studies and Data Archiving initiative undoubtedly will have high visibility and, if successful, will engender valuable public and political support for BFRL research programs. Both initiatives may place heavy demands on current BFRL staff, detracting from their traditional research responsibilities and accomplishments if not carefully managed.
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The BFRL should consider collecting other data that are of interest to the building community and useful in the support of ongoing BFRL research programs, including information on the serviceability and durability of building products. Both of these activities may place heavy demands on current BFRL staff, detracting from their traditional research responsibilities and accomplishments, so these initiatives should be carefully managed and scrutinized as they develop, to avoid such problems.
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