Opportunities for Consultants : Task Order 6
REQUEST FOR STATEMENTS OF INTEREST AND QUALIFICATIONS
The Applied Technology Council (ATC) and the Consortium of Universities for Research in Earthquake Engineering (CUREE) have formed the NEHRP Consultants Joint Venture, which has been awarded a five-year task order contract with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to provide various consulting services in furtherance of NEHRP (National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Act).
The primary objective of this work, as identified by NIST, is to "transition fundamental seismic engineering research and other fundamental structural or geotechnical engineering research to forms usable by engineering practitioners."
The Joint Venture has been assembling project teams to accomplish each Task Order issued to it by NIST. Project teams typically consist of a Project Director, who will have the lead responsibility and a major time commitment in accomplishing the work of that particular Task Order, as well as a small group of other experts serving on a Technical Committee who work closely with the Project Director. An independent Project Review Panel provides experts to oversee the work.
IMPROVED NONLINEAR PROCEDURES PROJECT DESCRIPTION
The NEHRP Consultants Joint Venture is beginning work on a Task Order for NIST that will improve nonlinear static seismic analysis of multiple degree-of-freedom systems.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) undertook a developmental project to improve nonlinear static procedures, which led to the publication of the FEMA 440 Report, Improvement of Nonlinear Static Seismic Analysis Procedures, prepared by ATC in 2005. In developing improvements, that project identified a series of additional issues that could not be resolved during the original FEMA project and recommended further study on some topics. One of these recommendations was to expand modeling to include nonlinear multiple-degree-of-freedom (MDOF) modeling for design decisions. Current nonlinear static procedures are based on single-degree-of-freedom (SDOF) models, which, while simple to understand, are limited in their ability to address the response of complex structures as well as multiple-mode effects from input seismic ground motions.
The consultants to be retained by the NEHRP Consultants Joint Venture for this project are expected to be:
The text of your email will serve as your cover letter. State the role or roles listed above (Project Director, Technical Committee, Review Panelist) in which you are interested.
Attach to your email message a brief statement of your qualifications or a resume (no more than 4 pages) as a Word or pdf file, with your last name included in that file name. If you have previously supplied that information to the NEHRP Consultants Joint Venture in response to an earlier Request for Statements of Interest, you do not need to send the same qualifications information. However, if you want to submit a different resume featuring qualifications with regard to this particular Request for Statements of Interest, please do so.
To submit your Statement of Interest, email it to info@nehrp-consultants.org with the Subject Line “Improvement of Nonlinear Static Procedures-MDOF.”
The deadline for emailed submissions is September 30, 2008.
