On February 14-24, a mission from the Peruvian counterpart of the SATREPS project visited Japan to share progress among the research subgroups.
The Peruvian mission arrived in Tokyo on February 14. They visited the University of Tokyo on the morning of the 15th, and in the afternoon, they traveled to Kobe, where they had a technical meeting in working groups on Thursday the 16th. Leaders of the cooperating institutions participated in the meeting, including CISMID-UNI, INDECI, and CENEPRED, from the Peruvian counterpart.
On Friday 17th, they made a technical visit to the National Institute for Earth Science Research and Disaster Resilience (NIED) in Miki, where they participated in the test of a full-scale building. Eight hundred sensors were installed on the steel structure with BRB to monitor its structural health (SHM). Several systems were tested in the trial, including one of the algorithms developed for the SATREPS Lima project.
On Saturday 18th, CISMID researchers traveled to Kyoto, where they toured its streets to see its old buildings reinforced in case of earthquakes.
On the 20th and 21st, they visited Sendai and toured the areas affected by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
Finally, they returned to Tokyo, and from the 22nd to the 24th, they carried out activities at the University of Tokyo and the Tsukuba NIED.
Dr. Carlos Zavala, a principal investigator of the Peruvian counterpart, commented:
“We have been able to verify the efficiency of the mathematical algorithms used in the SATREPS project, so, using the sensors we manage, we will be able to evaluate the behavior of the infrastructures in the event of a catastrophic earthquake”… “Face-to-face meetings are important because they allow us to make decisions for the following phases of the project.”
Lima will be the next venue for the meeting, where the third Joint Coordination Committee (JCC) will take place on December 19.