Shake table study on the effect of diaphragm flexibility on out-of-plane dynamic stability of URM walls (NEES-2013-1195)

06 Apr 2021 | Contributor(s): Ken Elwood

Title: Shake table study on the effect of diaphragm flexibility on out-of-plane dynamic stability of unreinforced masonry walls (NEES-2013-1195)Year Of Curation: 2014Description: This project consists of an experimental study examining the out-of-plane stability under seismic loading of...

Collaborative USGS-NEES Earthquake Hazard Studies in the New Madrid Seismic zone and Puget Sound, WA (NEES-2010-0962)

29 Mar 2021 | Contributor(s): Robert Williams

Title: Collaborative USGS-NEES Earthquake Hazard Studies in the New Madrid Seismic zone and Puget Sound, Washington (NEES-2010-0962)Year Of Curation: 2014Description: The overall goal of these experiments is to provide high-resolution images of the sediment structure and faults in the...

International Hybrid Simulation of Tomorrow's Braced Frame Systems (NEES-2008-0570)

29 Mar 2021 | Contributor(s): Stephen Mahin

Title: International Hybrid Simulation of Tomorrow's Braced Frame Systems. (NEES-2008-0570)Year Of Curation: 2012Description: There were four braced frame specimens in this special concentric braced frame test program. Each test specimen consisted of a two-story, single bay concentric...

Shake Table Response of Full Scale Reinforced Concrete Wall Building Slice (NEES-2006-0203)

25 Mar 2021 | Contributor(s): Jose Restrepo

Title: Shake Table Response of Full Scale Reinforced Concrete Wall Building Slice (NEES-2006-0203)Year Of Curation: 2013Description: The test structure is a slice of a 7-story residential building incorporating structural walls as the lateral force-resisting system. The structure was...

Dynamic Behavior of Slickensided Surfaces (NEES-2005-0027)

23 Mar 2021 | Contributor(s): Ross Boulanger, James Duncan

Title: Dynamic Behavior of Slickensided Surfaces (NEES-2005-0027)Year Of Curation: 2011Description: This project consists of a series of centrifuge tests that were performed using the UC Davis geotechnical centrifuge. The purpose of these tests was to measure the amount of displacement...

Experimental Study of the Dynamic Response of a Ten-Story Reinforced Concrete Frame With a Tall First Story (NEES-2011-1043)

23 Mar 2021 | Contributor(s): Timothy J. Healey

Title: Experimental Study of the Dynamic Response of a Ten-Story Reinforced Concrete Frame With a Tall First Story (NEES-2012-1043)Year Of Curation: 2012Description: The primary objective of this test was to study the nonlinear dynamic behavior of a small-scale ten-story three-bay...

Properties of Cohesionless Soil Subsequent to Liquefaction and Resedimentation (NEES-2010-0975)

23 Mar 2021 | Contributor(s): Ronaldo Borja, Jeffrey Evans, Edward Kavazanjian

Title: Properties of Cohesionless Soil Subsequent to Liquefaction and Resedimentation (NEES-2014-0975)Year Of Curation: 2014Description: The project will experimentally and numerically investigate the properties of resedimented soil following liquefaction, including void ratio...

New Method to Evaluate the Buried Pipeline– Sandy Soil Interaction Subjected to Strike Slip Faulting

07 Feb 2020 | Contributor(s): Mohammad Ashrafy, Mehrzad TahamouliRoudsari, Mahmood Hosseini, Milad Azin, Mohammadreza Nasimi, Morteza Torkaman, Ali Khorsandi

The aim of this study is to provide a new method to assess the interaction between sandy soil and buried pipeline in the presence of strike-slip faulting. To that end, two full-scale experiments were carried out on steel and polyethylene pipes. Using ABAQUS and an optimization algorithm, the...

FoRCy: Rocking Shallow Foundation Performance in Slow Cyclic and Monotonic Experiments

19 Jul 2019 | Databases | Contributor(s): Manouchehr Hakhamaneshi, Bruce L Kutter, Andreas Gerasimos Gavras, Sivapalan Gajan, Angelos Tsatsis, George Gazetas, Ioannis Anastasopoulos, Tetsuya Kohno, Giovanna Pianese, Keshab Sharma, Lijun Deng, Weian Liu, Roberto Paolucci, Jonathan Monical

Numerous centrifuge experiments (e.g., Rosebrook 2001; Ugalde et al. 2007; Gajan and Kutter 2008; Deng et al. 2012; Hakhamaneshi et al. 2012; Liu et al. 2013; Allmond and Kutter 2014; Loli et al. 2014) and 1g shake-table experiments (e.g., Shirato et...

testing iframe

23 May 2019 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Ann Christine . Catlin

OpenCPU

24 Jan 2019 | Tools | Contributor(s): Erich Huebner

OpenCPU is a software system for embedded statistical computation and reproducible research.

RStudio

14 Apr 2017 | Tools

RStudio is a GUI for R, the statistical programming language.

Jupyter Notebook

18 Oct 2018 | Tools | Contributor(s): Erich Huebner

Starts the Jupyter notebook server in your "notebooks" directory in your home directory.

Modeling the Performance of Solar Photovoltaic Systems

15 Jul 2018 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Muhammed Tahir Patel, Reza Asadpour, Xingshu sun

A presentation was given as part of the first DEEDS workshop on June 29, 2018 in support of the NSF-funded projectCIF21 DIBBs: EI: Creating a Digital Environment for Enabling Data-Driven Science (DEEDS). These slides were created and presented by M. Tahir Patel, PhD student in the School of...

DEEDS 2018 Use Cases Workshop

01 Jul 2018 | Active Documents | Contributor(s): Ann Christine Catlin, Muhammad Ashraful Alam, Connie Weaver, Marisol Sepulveda, Joe Francisco

The first DEEDS workshop was held on June 29, 2018. The workshop focus was the DEEDS use cases. Each use case presented an overview of their research and then described how their DEEDS dataset support their data, computing, and scientific workflows.

Headless submit functionality

19 Jun 2018 | Tools | Contributor(s): Steven Clark

Execute generic submit command wthin a tool session without UI.

UCSB Researcher Makes Waves At Earthquake Research Summit

25 Apr 2018 | Notes | Contributor(s): Aurie Swartz, NEES Media Communications

Daily Nexus | October 1, 2013 | Online | UC Santa Barbara's student-run newspaper featured an article congratulating NEES Project Specialist and Education/Outreach Coordinator Sandra Seale on receiving the "Outstanding Service in the area of Education, Outreach and Training" award at Quake...

FLECHA: A macro-enabled spreadsheet for developing moment-curvature diagrams

17 Apr 2018 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Santiago Pujol

FLECHA is a macro-enabled spreadsheet program for developing moment-curvature diagrams for reinforced concrete sections. The spreadsheet was written by Santiago Pujol and was last revised in April 2001. 

Promotion and Outreach

15 Jan 2018 | Active Documents | Contributor(s): Santiago Pujol, Lucas Laughery, Jonathan Monical

ActivityDateOutcomeMet with researcher in materials chemistry to showcase DataHub and help them create a datasetMay - July 2017New dataset created: https://datacenterhub.org/resources/14436In June there were 18,000...

Shaking it Up! A Problem-Based Learning Project on Earthquake Disaster Management

06 Dec 2017 | Learning Objects | Contributor(s): Alana Lund, Christopher Roemmele, Lisa Roetker, Steven Smith

Units on earthquake education typically develop the topic from a theoretical and investigative perspective. Though this approach helps students understand the mechanisms of events like tornadoes and earthquakes, it misses the connection to the impact these events have on the world. Student...