2019 NIST Disaster Resilience Symposium
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is pleased to announce its second annual Disaster Resilience Symposium.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
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.
