NEES - Quake Summit 2012 Program

Program | Technical Sessions: 1-4 | 5-8 | 9-12 | 13-16 | 17-20 | Poster Session

Program

Sunday, July 8, 2012 (pre-activity)
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm	EOT meet and greet share-a-thon
Monday, July 9, 2012 (pre-activity)
8:00 am - 3:30 pm	EOT Workshop
4:00 pm - 9:00 pm	Governance Board
Tuesday, July 10, 2012 (pre-activity)
NEES committee meetings
7:15 am - 8:00 am	NEES Committee Breakfast
8:00 am - 10:00 am	IT Manager Forum
8:00 am - 10:00 am	Site Managers Forum
8:00 am - 10:00 am	PAC
10:15 am - 12:15 pm	Equipment Site Forum
10:15 am - 12:15 pm	RAAS Subcommittee
10:15 am - 12:15 pm	Simulation Steering Committee
10:15 am - 12:15 pm	IT Manager Meeting part 1
12:15 pm - 1:30 pm	NEES Committee Lunch
1:30 pm - 3:30 pm	EOT Subcommittee
1:30 pm - 3:30 pm	RAAS Subcommittee continued
1:30 pm - 3:30 pm	Site Op Subcommittee
1:30 pm - 3:30 pm	Cyberinfrastructure Subcommittee
3:45 pm - 5:30 pm	Data and Curation Subcommittee
3:45 pm - 5:30 pm	Users Forum
3:45 pm - 5:30 pm	Site Operations Subcommittee continued
3:45 pm - 5:30 pm	IT Manager Meeting part 2
5:15 pm - 7:15 pm	Site Scheduling Committee
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
8:00 am - 2:00 pm	NEES boot camp
8:00 am - 2:00 pm	Simulation workshop
8:00 am - 12:00 pm	EERI-SLC
12:30 pm - 2:00 pm	NEES Bootcamp
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm	Lunch / networking
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm	Opening plenary Meeting Welcome and Showcase of NEES Outreach Video Report on Community Workshop on Grand Challenges in Earthquake Engineering Greg Fenves (Dean Cockrell School of Engineering, University of Texas at Austin) NSF Welcoming Remarks and Update Joy Pauschke (Program Director, George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation) NEES Operations Until 2014 and Plan for NEES Data Julio Ramirez (NEEScomm Center Director) Q&A Period
4:15 pm - 5:30 pm	Technical program breakout sessions
5:45 pm - 7:15 pm	Poster session / Reception
Thursday, July 12, 2012
7:30 am - 8:45 am	NEES breakfast / Plenary
9:00 am - 10:15 am	Technical program breakout sessions
10:30 am - 12:00 pm	Technical program breakout sessions
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	NEES networking lunch (provided) / Awards

1:00 pm - 2:15 pm	Technical program breakout sessions
2:30 pm - 3:45 pm	Technical program breakout sessions
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	NEES closing plenary session

Concurrent Technical Sessions

Wednesday, July 11th, 2012
4:15 pm - 5:30 pm

Technical Session 1: NEEShub Tools Room 303	Technical Session 2: Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering Room 305	Technical Session 3: Steel Structures Room 308	Technical Session 4: Base Isolation / Energy Dissipation Room 310
CSMIP-3DV: Tool for Visualization of the Response of Instrumented Buildings Farzad Naeim	Lateral Spreading-Induced Pressures Against a Large, Rigid Foundation Mark Muszynski	Predicting Seismic Behavior in Cold-Formed Steel Shear Walls Kara Peterman	Seismic Testing of an Isolated Scale-Model Bridge Structure with an Adaptive Passive Negative Stiffness Device Navid Attary
Strata: A NEEShub Tool to Analyze One-Dimensional Site Response Ellen Rathje	Biological Improvement of Sands for Liquefaction Prevention and Damage Mitigation Jason DeJong	Developments on Self-Centering Steel Plate Shear Walls and Web Plate Behavior Characterization Jeffrey Berman	Real-Time Hybrid Simulation and Performance Evaluation of a Structure with Large-Scale Nonlinear Viscous Dampers Baiping Dong
Running SAP on NEEShub Juan Caicedo	Field Testing of Soil Impedance Functions Lisa Star	Seismic Vulnerability of Older Braced Frames Dawn Lehman	Real-Time Hybrid Simulations of Large-Scale Stell Frame Building with Magneto-Rheological Dampers James Ricles
OpenSEES Lab: Tools for Enhancing OpenSEES Frank McKenna	NEES-ROCK: Expanding the Boundaries of the George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation Joseph Wartman	Advanced Hybrid Simulation Application for the Seismic Assessment of Semi-Rigid Partial-Strength Steel Frames Hussam Mahmoud	Real Time Hybrid Simulation for Validation of Advanced Damping Systems in Large-Scale Applications Anthony Friedman

Thursday, July 12th, 2012
9:00 am - 10:15 am

Technical Session 5: Reinforced Concrete Structures Room 302	Technical Session 6: Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering Room 304	Technical Session 7: Simulation Room 306	Technical Session 8: Tsunamis Room 310
Behavior of Headed Anchor Bolts in Plastic Hinge Zones Jian Zhao	Numerical Simulation of Nonlinear Seismic Structure-Soil-Structure Interaction Chandrakanth Bolisetti	The Influence of Aerodynamic Damping on the Seismic Response of Horizontal Axis Wind Turbines Andrew Myers	Observations aned Modeling of Tsunami-Induced Currents in Ports and Harbors Patrick Lynett
Seismic Response of Low Aspect Ratio Reinforced Concrete Shear Walls Bismarck Luna	Understanding and Improving the Seismic Behavior of Pile Foundations in Soft Soils Bradley Fleming	Nonlinear Finite Element Simulation of Full-Scale Five Story Reinforced Concrete Shake-Table Building Specimen Using DIANA and OpenSEES Hamed Ebrahimian	Tsunami Generation by Three Dimensional Deformable Landslide in Various Scenarios Brian McFall Hermann Fritz Fahad Mohammed
Seismic Vulnerability of Exterior and Corner Beam-Column Joints Wael Hassan	Improving Seismic Performance of Piles in Soft Clay: A Demonstration of Using NEES Facilities, Cyberinfrastructure Tools and Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration Sri Sritharan	Near-Collapse Performance of Existing RC Frame Buildings Murray Justin	Boundary Layer and Bed Stress Development Under a Solitary Wave Diane Foster
	Topographic Effects in Strong Ground Motion - From Physical and Numerical Modeling to Design Adrian Rodriguez-Marek	Seismic Analysis of a 4-Span Bridge with Composite Piers Fatemeh Kavianipour	Dissipation Characteristics of Swell Wave - Tsunami Interaction James M. Kaihatu Richard Irwin Deirdre Deverey Ying-Po Liao

Thursday, July 12th, 2012
10:30 am - 12:00 pm

Technical Session 9: Use of NEES Data Room 302	Technical Session 10: Wood Structures Room 304	Technical Session 11: Lifelines Room 306	Technical Session 12: Education and Outreach Room 310
Rapid Repair of Severely Damaged RC Columns Under Combined Loading with Externally-Bonded CFRP Lesley Sneed	Seismically Enhanced Non-Structural Partition Walls for Unibody Residential Construction Scott Swensen	Mechanisms of Failure of Segmental Concrete Pipelines Subjected to Permanent Ground Displacement Mohammad Pour-Ghaz	GGSS-NEES@UCDavis Outreach Partnership Jack Montgomery
Force-Demand from Tsunami-Driven Debris Strikes Ron Riggs	Seismic Performance Evaluation of Energy Efficient Structural Insulated Panels (SIPs) Using Hybrid Simulation, Cyclic Testing and Analytical Simulations Selim Gunay	Seismic Performance of Substation Insulator Posts for Vertical-Break Disconnect Switches Khalid Mosalam	Visualization Tool and Online Course Module Using the NEES@UCSB Facilities Sandy Seale
Building Collapse Fragilities Considering Mainshock-Aftershock Sequences Using Publicly Available NEEShub Data Yue Li	Strategic Placement of Damping Devices for Seismic Protection of Soft-Story Buildings Jingjing Tian	Developments in Wind Turbine Seismic Response Ian Prowell	A Multi-Institutional Learning Environment for Undergrads: Remote Testing at RPI-NEES Site for Geotechnical Engineering Education Usama El Shamy
Recent Enhancements and Research Highlights at the NEES@UCSB Permanently Instrumented Field Sites Jamison Steidl	NEES-Soft: Seismic Risk Reduction for Soft-Story Woodframe Buildings John van de Lindt	Investigation of the Effect of Support Structure Properties on the Seismic Response of Electrical Insulator Posts Using Real-Time Hybrid Simulation Selim Gunay	NEES@Berkeley Earthquake Engineering Program Targets 4th - 6th Grade Learners Heidi Faison

Thursday, July 12th, 2012
1:00 pm - 2:15 pm

Technical Session 13: Steel Structures Room 302	Technical Session 14: Experimental Techniques Room 304	Technical Session 15: Hybrid Simulation Room 306	Technical Session 16: Design in Moderate Seismic Regions Room 310
Resiliency of Steel Self-Centering Concentrically-Braced Frames (SC-CBFs) Under Intense Ground Motions and Aftershocks Brent Chancellor	Applications of Laser Scanning to Structural Engineering Field Sangjoon Park	Collapse of a Four Story Steel Moment Frame: Comparison of Shake Table and Hybrid Test Results Konstantinos Balafas	Seismic Design in Massachusetts Eric Hines
Experiments and Simulations of an Innovative Seismic Performance Enhancement Technique for Steel Building Beam-Column Connections Machel Morrison	Shear Wall Strain Measurements Using Digital Image Correlation Clement Barthes	Hybrid Testing 2.0 Oh-Sung Kwon	Ground Motion Suite Selection for Moderate Seismic Regions Laurie Baise
Hybrid Masonry Seismic Structural Systems Daniel Abrams	Centrifuge Model Design and Execution: Some Practical Considerations Gabriel Candia	Model-based Real-Time Hybrid Simulation for Large-Scale Experimental Evaluation Brian Phillips	Collapse Resistance of Low-Ductility Braced Frames Larry Fahnestock
Seismic Performance Factors for Steel-Concrete Composite Frame Structures Mark Denavit	Effective Force Testing Using a Loop Shaping Force Feedback Controller With Nonlinear Test Structures Narutoshi Nakata	Hybrid Simulation with On-line Updating of Numerical Model Based on Measured Experimental Behavior M.J. Hashemi	Collapse Assessment of Steel Braced Frames in Seismic Regions Dimitrios G. Lignos

Thursday, July 12th, 2012
2:30 pm - 3:45 pm

Technical Session 17: Base Isolation / Energy Dissipation Room 302	Technical Session 18: Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering Room 304	Technical Session 19: Hybrid Simulation Room 306	Technical Session 20: Reinforced Concrete Structures Room 310
NEES TIPS/E-Defense Tests of a Full Scale Base-Isolated and Fixed-Base Building Keri Ryan	In Situ Assessment of the Linear and Nonlinear Dynamic Properties of Municipal Solid Waste Dimitrios Zekkos	Seismic Fragility Assessment of a Six-Story Building with SCED Braces Through Pseudo-Dyanmic Hybrid Simulation Oh-Sung Kwon	Behavior and Analysis of C-Shaped Walls Dawn Lehman
Testing of a New Structural Modification Approach for Seismic Protection Using Novel Negative Stiffness Device Satish Nagarajaiah	Field Test of Model Levee on Sherman Island Peaty Organic Soil Scott Brandenberg	Probabilistic Reliability Anaysis of Real-Time Hybrid Simulation Results for Seismic Hazard Mitigation Cheng Chen	Shake Table Response of a Fully Furnished Full-Scale Five-Story Building Elide Pantoli
Seismic Assessment of Isolated Bridge Configurations Adopting a PBEE Methodology Davide Forcellini	Performance of Buried Segmented Concrete Pipeline Systems Under Seismically-Induced Permanent Ground Displacement Jerome Lynch	Real-Time Hybrid Simulation Implementation with a User-Programmable Controller Oya Mercan	Post-Tensioned Coupled Shear Wall Systems for Seismic Regions Steven Barbachyn
Collapse Evaluation of Seismically Isolated Building Impacting Moat Wall Armin Masroor	Large Scale Testing of Jointed Pipelines with Polymeric Linings Harry Stewart	Real-Time Hybrid Simulation Studies of Complex Large-Scale Systems Using Multi-Grid Processing Yunbyeong Chae	Punching Shear in Flat Slabs with Headed Stud Reinforcement Under Combined Gravity and Biaxial Lateral Displacements Gustavo Parra-Montesinos

Poster Session

Wednesday, July 11th, 2012
5:45 pm - 7:15 pm

Poster Title	Presenter
Hybrid Masonry Seismic Structural Systems	Daniel Abrams
Collapse of a Four Story Steel Moment Frame; Comparison of Shake Table and Hybrid Test Results	Konstantinos Balafas
Post-Tensioned Coupled Shear Wall Systems for Seismic Regions	Steven Barbachyn
GGSS-NEES@UCDavis Outreach Partnership	Jack Montgomery
Centrifuge Model Design and Execution: Some Practical Considerations	Gabriel Candia
Seismic Soil-Foundation-Structure System Identification: Use of NEESR Centrifuge-Based Research Project Warehouse Data	ZhiQiang Chen
Seismic Response of Shallow Underground Structures in Dense Urban Environments	Shideh Dashti
Validation Experiments for the Linked Column Frame System	Peter Dusicka
Understanding and Improving the Seismic Behavior of Pile Foundations in Soft Soils	Bradley Fleming
Seismic Assessment of Isolated Bridge Configurations Adopting a PBEE Methodology	Davide Forcellini
Real Time Hybrid Simulation for Validation of Advanced Damping Systems in Large-Scale Applications	Anthony Friedman
Seismically Enhanced Non-Structural Partition Walls for Unibody Residential Construction	Amy Hopkins
Seismic analysis of a 4-span bridge with composite piers	Fatemeh Kavianipour
Surface Waves due to a Subsurface Point Load Excitation in an Inhomogeneous Anisotropic Elastic Medium	Priza Kayestha
Modeling of Cyclic Shear-Flexure Interaction in Reinforced Concrete Structural Walls	Kristijan Kolozvari
Strong Shaking of a Steel Frame Base Isolated Building at E-Defense in Japan: Developing Processing Scripts	Emma Lejeune
Seismic Response of Low Aspect Ratio Reinforced Concrete Shear Walls	Bismarck Luna
Columns in Reinforced Concrete Buildings Impacted by Tsunami Water-Borne Shipping Containers	Manoj Madurapperuma
Drift-Sensitive Experimental Testing of Precast Concrete Cladding	Kurt McMullin
Substructured Seismic Dynamic Testing of High Voltage Electrical Substation Disconnect Switches	Mohamed Moustafa
Damage of Buried Segmented Concrete Pipelines Subjected to Permanent Ground Displacements - Numerical Studies	Srinivasa Nadukuru
Influence of Near-fault Ground Motions and Seismic Pounding on the Response of Base-Isolated Reinforced Concrete Buildings	Deepak Pant
Shake Table Response of a Fully Furnished Full-scale Five-story Building	Elide Pantoli
Predicting Seismic Behavior in Cold-Formed Steel Shear Walls	Kara Peterman
Data Management of Research Data at NEES	Stanislav Pejša
Mechanisms of Failure of Segmental Concrete Pipelines Subjected to Permanent Ground Displacement	Mohammad Pour-Ghaz
Structural Deterioration and Time-Dependent Seismic Risk Analysis	Anirudh Rao
Real-Time Hybrid Simulations of Large-Scale Steel Frame Building with Magneto-Rheological Dampers	James Ricles
Force-Demand from Tsunami-Driven Debris Strikes	Ron Riggs
Mini-Wave Flume Assessment at 2012 Folk Life Festival	Laia Robichaux
Topographic Effects in Strong Ground Motion - From Physical and Numerical Modeling to Design	Adrian Rodriguez-Marek
Large-scale Experiments to Validate an Innovative Seismic Performance Enhancement Technique for Steel Building Beam-column Connections	Doug Schweizer
Coupling of Pore Pressure and Ground Motion Data Recorded During the 2010 El Mayor-Cucapah (Baja California) Earthquake at the NEES@UCSB Wildlife Station	Sandra Seale
Visualizing Structural Response and Site Amplification Using Earthquake Data Recorded at the NEES@UCSB Field Sites	Sandra Seale
Site Effects Measured at the NEES@UCSB Wildlife Station From the 2010 Ocotillo Swarm	Sandra Seale
Strategic Placement of Damping Devices for Seismic Protection of Soft-Story Buildings Strategic Placement of Damping Devices for Seismic Protection of Soft-Story Buildings	Jingjing Tian
Seismic Testing of an Isolated Scale-Model Bridge Structure with an Adaptive Passive Negative Stiffness Device	Navid Attary
Behavior and Response of Moderate-Aspect Ratio RC Structural Walls	Thien Tran
NEES-ROCK: Expanding the Boundaries of the George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation	Joseph Wartman
Hybrid Testing of Stiff Reinforced Concrete Shear Walls	Shakhzod Takhirov
Behavior of Headed Anchor Bolts in Plastic Hinge Zones	Jian Zhao

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