Fox News - Huge Earthquake Strikes Single Building in 'Shake Test'

16 Jul 2009 | Notes | Contributor(s): Devin Powell

Huge Earthquake Strikes Single Building in 'Shake Test'.

Gizmodo - Surprise: Wooden Building Resists 7.5 Magnitude Earthquake

15 Jul 2009 | Notes | Contributor(s): Jesus Diaz

Surprise: Wooden Building Resists 7.5 Magnitude Earthquake

Wired Magazine - Massive Fake Quake Shakes 6-Story Condo

14 Jul 2009 | Notes | Contributor(s): Hadley Leggett

Massive Fake Quake Shakes 6-Story Condo

Rensselaer Researchers To Participate in Seismic Test of Seven-Story Building

10 Jul 2009 | Notes | Contributor(s): Rajesh Thyagarajan

A destructive earthquake will strike a lone, wooden condominium in Japan next week, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Professor Michael Symans will be on site to watch it happen.A destructive earthquake will strike a lone, wooden condominium in Japan next week, and Rensselaer Polytechnic...

Live Science - Quake Engineer Built Seismograph in 6th Grade

09 Jul 2009 | Notes | Contributor(s): Irene Chang, John Willem van de Lindt

On July 14, 2009, this six-story, woodframe condominium building — shown here being transported onto the world’s largest shake table — will be shaken with earthquake forces that occur, on average, only once every 2,500 years. The project is headed up by John van de Lindt of...

National Science Foundation - In Defiance of Earthquakes

08 Jul 2009 | Notes | Contributor(s): John Willem van de Lindt

Largest shake-table experiment ever attempted will test 23-unit condo building against motions of a 2,500-year earthquake

Live Science - Indoor Earthquake Planned for July 14

01 Jul 2009 | Notes | Contributor(s): Rajesh Thyagarajan

On July 14th, this six-story, woodframe condominium building — shown here still under construction — will be shaken with earthquake forces that occur, on average, only once every 2,500 years.The final experiment of the multi-year NEESWood project, the effort will test new ways to...

High Performance Wireless Research and Education Network

17 Apr 2009 | Notes | Contributor(s): Hank Ratzesberger

HPWREN already supports numerous seismic recording stations throughout its operating zone, including one in the Garner Valley operated by the Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) and U.C. Santa Barbara. In 2006, the National Science Foundation awarded a research grant to NEES to...

Earthquake Simulator Example Usage

01 Mar 2009 | Learning Modules

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inDEED Example Usage

27 Feb 2009 | Learning Modules

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N3DV Example Usage

26 Feb 2009 | Learning Modules

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Corvallis Gazette Times - OSU wave lab takes tsunami test to D.C.

19 Feb 2009 | Notes | Contributor(s): Kyle Odegard

 OSU wave lab takes tsunami test to D.C. A wave almost eight inches tall rolled through a pool at the O.H. Hinsdale Wave Research Laboratory. Seconds later, the breaker surged over a dozen hastily constructed model buildings. All but one of them took the hit. But the next wave, double...

Video Clip of Flat-plate Structure

14 Feb 2009 | Downloads

Video clip navigates through the full-scale reinforced concrete flat-plate structure constructed for the cyclic lateral loading experiment.

Reinforced Concrete Columns Subjected to Displacement Reversals Vol. 2

14 Feb 2009 | Downloads

(Continued from Vol. 1) The essential requirement for a reinforced concrete column of a structure to resist strong ground motion is that it retains a substantial portion of its strength as it experiences displacement reversals in the nonlinear range of response. This study addresses the problem...

Cyclic Lateral Loading of a Full-Scale Reinforced Concrete Flat-Plate Structure

12 Feb 2009 | Series

Experiment contributed by Damon R. FickThe test specimen was a full-scale two-span three-story reinforced concrete flatplate structure consisting of six columns spaced at 20 ft in each direction supporting a 7 in. thick slab. There was a 5 ft cantilevered slab around the perimeter of the...

Reinforced Concrete Column Subjected to Cyclic Transverse Load

10 Feb 2009 | Series

Experiment contributed by Santiago Pujol. This test was part of an experimental program that included a total of eight test assemblies. An assembly consisted of two test specimens joined by a center stub. Each specimen was intended to represent a cantilever column under axial load and a point...

Reinforced Concrete Columns Subjected to Displacement Reversals Vol. 1

10 Feb 2009 | Downloads

In previous tests of columns under displacement reversals in the inelastic range of response, different arbitrary displacement histories have been used. Comparisons of drift-capacity data from columns tested under different displacement histories can only be made if displacement-history effects...

Centrifuge Test Plan for Test Series SHD03

30 Jul 2008 | Publications | Contributor(s): Shideh Dashti, Jonathan Bray, Dan Wilson,

Test series 3 investigates the seismic performance of a scale model of the prototype soil-foundation-structural system at liquefied and softened ground sites. This test series is anticipated to develop insight into the foundation movement of structures at sites undergoing liquefaction with...

2008 SASW Surveys on the Island of Hawaii

30 Jul 2008 | Publications | Contributor(s): Kenneth Stokoe,

SASW Surveys Report 2008

CENTRIFUGE MODELING OF INNOVATIVE FOUNDATION SYSTEMS TO OPTIMIZE SEISMIC BEHAVIOR OF BRIDGE STRUCTURES

29 Jul 2008 | Publications | Contributor(s): Thomas Algie, Lijun Deng, E. Erduran, Bruce Lloyd Kutter, Sashi Kunnath

Paper to 14th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering