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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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