The George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation

NEES

1. Centrifuge Center Video
2. Facility Usage Policies
   1. Usage Fee Policies
   2. Site Access Plan
3. Cornell-RPI Project
4. NEEScomm

NEEScomm is proud to manage, operate, and maintain a unique national infrastructure on behalf of the National Science Foundation’s NEES Program.That infrastructure includes the following components:

• A system of 14 shared experimental facilities, each enabling researchers to explore a different aspect of the complex way that soils and structures behave as a result of earthquakes and tsunamis. The facilities fall into five general categories:

  1. Shaking tables
  2. Tsunami wave basin
  3. Geotechnical centrifuges
  4. Field experimentation and monitoring
  5. Large-scale laboratory experimentation

• An IT infrastructure linking the sites and providing comprehensive services to NEES researchers

• A system of centralized repositories for storing shared documents, experimental data, simulation programs, software tools, etc.

• A national headquarters located in Davis, California

The Facilities User Guide provides a system of policies and procedures governing how facilities can be shared by the national earthquake engineering research community.