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Center for Civil Engineering Earthquake Research
University of Nevada, Reno
UNR, UB, and UCSD Joint Shake Table Workshop
September 17 & 18, 2007
| Monday, September 17, 2007 (HREL 109) | |
| 7:45 - 8:00 am | Registration and Welcome |
| 8:00 - 8:15 am | Introduction |
| 8:15 - 9:45 am | Overview: UB, UCSD and UNR shake table facilities: components and specifications |
| 9:45 - 10:15 am | Break, tour UNR Large Scale Structures Laboratory facilities |
| 10:15 - 11:00 am | Dynamic Testing: Overview of selected dynamic testing methods. Why dynamic testing? (Supplemental Presentation) (quasi-static, shake table testing, hybrid testing - slow and real-time) |
| 11:00 - 12:00 pm | Test specimen: Dimensional analysis, similitude, modeling and computational simulations |
| 12:00 - 1:00 pm | Lunch |
| 1:00 - 1:30 pm | Test specimen: Example case studies |
| 1:30 - 2:30 pm | Test specimen: In-class group activity |
| 2:30 - 3:00 pm | Test planning: Speciment design, construction, material and instrumentation |
| 3:00 - 3:15 pm | Break |
| 3:15 - 3:30 pm | Test planning: Input base excitation - generated artificial and/or historically recorded |
| 3:30 - 4:00 pm | Shake table control: System Tuning and Fidelity |
| 4:00 - 4:30 pm | Shake table control: The Physics of Shake Tables |
| 4:30 - 5:00 pm | Shake table control: Fidelity in Signal Reproduction & Sources of Signal Distortion |
| 5:00 - 6:00 pm | Reception (LSSL) |
| Tuesday, September 18, 2007 (HREL 109) | |
| 8:00 - 8:30 am | Test Protocol: Implementation |
| 8:30 - 9:15 am | Instrumentation and data acquisition: Data types, processing/reduction analysis and error |
| 9:15 - 10:15 am | NEESit tools: Teleobservation, data management and archiving (NEESit, UB, UNR, UCSD) |
| 10:15 - 10:30 am | Break |
| 10:30 - 11:30 am | Example of total project planning and execution: NEESwood project |
| 11:30 - 12:00 pm | Overview of the hands-on lab activity |
| 12:00 - 1:00 pm | Lunch 30 min NEESit hands-on demonstration (optional) |
| 1:00 - 3:30 pm | Hands-on lab activity |
| 3:30 - 3:45 pm | Break |
| 3:45 - 4:15 pm | Project Management: (Safety, scheduling, ESPCC, RPA, ...) |
| 4:15 - 4:30 pm | Workshop survey and closure |
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