AIR Expands San Francisco Office as it Embarks on New Research in Earthquake Engineering.Business Editors BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 17, 2003 AIR Worldwide Corporation (AIR) today announced the relocation and expansion of its San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden office to accommodate the increasing number of research initiatives being undertaken there. The San Francisco team, led by Dr. Paolo Bazzurro, has been awarded several new grants that will further the engineering community's understanding of how earthquakes impact structures. Among these are grants from the U.S. Geological Survey The term geological survey can be used to describe both the conduct of a survey for geological purposes and an institution holding geological information. A geological survey (USGS USGS United States Geological Survey (US Department of the Interior) ) and the Pacific Earthquake Engineering earthquake engineer n. A civil engineer specializing in earthquake-resistant design and construction and in the study of the effects of seismic activity on fabricated structures. Research (PEER) Center. While the research is being conducted on behalf of different organizations, the findings will be incorporated into AIR earthquake models. The PEER project, "Parameterization of Non-Stationary Acceleration Time History," will examine two techniques used to model the impact of intense ground motion from large magnitude earthquakes on structures: scaling up the amplitude of real recordings from smaller earthquakes and artificially simulating recordings of large earthquakes. AIR will investigate the soundness of each practice to determine whether, and to what extent, they generate structural responses that are materially different from those that are actually recorded. AIR researchers will also investigate the ability of an already-damaged structure to withstand an aftershock af·ter·shock n. 1. A quake of lesser magnitude, usually one of a series, following a large earthquake in the same area. 2. in the wake of a large earthquake. AIR's work on the USGS grant, "Correlation of Damage of Steel Moment-Resisting Frames to a Vector-valued Ground Motion Parameter Set that Includes Energy Demands," is being performed in conjunction with the University of Texas at Austin “University of Texas” redirects here. For other system schools, see University of Texas System. The University of Texas at Austin (often referred to as The University of Texas, UT Austin, UT, or Texas . AIR and other researchers will study the relationship between earthquake ground motion energy parameters and structural damage in order to improve damage and loss prediction from earthquakes. Understanding this relationship is essential to estimate the likelihood of various levels of seismic damage, and ultimately, monetary loss, for a given structure, or a portfolio of structures. AIR's new San Francisco office is located at 388 Market Street, Suite 610, in downtown San Francisco. The telephone number is 415-912-3111. About AIR Worldwide Corporation AIR Worldwide Corporation (AIR) is the technological leader in catastrophe and weather risk modeling. Through its web-based and computer software solutions (ClimateCast(SM), CLASIC/2(TM), CATRADER(R), CATMAP(R)/2, AIRProfiler(R)), AIR services the insurance, reinsurance The contract made between an insurance company and a third party to protect the insurance company from losses. The contract provides for the third party to pay for the loss sustained by the insurance company when the company makes a payment on the original contract. and capital markets. AIR's models simulate losses from both man-made and natural catastrophes in more than 35 countries. AIR is headquartered in Boston and has additional offices in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Europe and Asia. For more information, please visit the AIR website at www.air-worldwide.com. |
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