San Diego Earthquake Tests Show Risks Inside Buildings

18 Mar 2013 | Notes | Contributor(s): NEES Media Communications, Marti LaChance

KPBS TV San Diego | March 1, 2013 Television coverage. Story covers NEES@San Diego shake tests studying non-structural systems.  See attached audio clip.

http://nees.org/resources/5810

NEES research at UC San Diego tests seismic resiliency and fire

01 Nov 2012 | Notes | Contributor(s): NEES Media Communications, Marti LaChance

Nov. 1, 2012 Video features UCSD and NEES research. See YouTube footage below. Find more video under Documents and Attachments.

http://nees.org/resources/5822

Model-Based Framework for Real-Time Dynamic Structural Performance Evaluation

02 Oct 2012 | Publications | Contributor(s): Brian Phillips, Billie F. Spencer

Extreme dynamic events continue to demonstrate the fragility of civil infrastructure worldwide. Over the years, design codes and computational tools have come to reflect an improved understanding of …

http://nees.org/resources/5023

Stability of Rocking Structures

18 May 2011 | Publications | Contributor(s): Kari Nasi

Previous studies on the stability of rocking structures subjected to earthquake motions have focused on the development of numerical tools to estimate dynamic response. These tools have not been …

http://nees.org/resources/2950

State of the Art of Shaking Table Tests of Wood Buildings in Japan

04 Feb 2011 | Multimedia | Contributor(s): NEES EOT

In the last decade, many shaking table tests of wood buildings including collapse tests have been conducted in Japan. The purposes, results, conclusions and video clips of these full-scale tests are …

http://nees.org/resources/2553

Behavior of Ten-Story Reinforced Concrete Walls Subjected to Earthquake Motions by Jose Dario Aristizabal-Ochoa

27 Sep 2010 | Publications | Contributor(s): Mete Sozen

The overall objective of this work was to investigate the response of multi-story reinforced concrete structures resisting earthquake forces primarily through "cantilever" rather than frame action. A …

http://nees.org/resources/949

CCEER-07-04: Experimental Evaluation of Performance of Conventional Bridge Systems

31 Jul 2010 | Publications | Contributor(s): Robert Nelson, Mehdi Saiidi

As part of a multi-university research project utilizing the Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES), a quarter-scale 110 ft (33.5 m) long asymmetric conventional reinforced concrete …

http://nees.org/resources/541

NW-01: Seismic Testing of a Full-Scale Two-Story Light-Frame Wood Building: NEESWood Benchmark Test

31 Jul 2010 | Publications | Contributor(s): Ioannis Christovasilis, Andre Filiatrault, Assawin Wanitkorkul

This report discusses the benchmark shake table testing program on a full-scale two-story woodframe townhouse building conducted within the NEESWood Project. The test building represents the world's …

http://nees.org/resources/551

CCEER-06-02: Large-Scale Experimental and Analytical Seismic Studies of a Two-Span Reinforced Concrete Bridge System

31 Jul 2010 | Publications | Contributor(s): Nathan Johnson, Mehdi Saiidi, David Sanders

A quarter-scale, 67 ft (20.5 m) long asymmetric reinforced concrete bridge model with two-spans supported on three, two-column piers was tested using the shake table system at the University of …

http://nees.org/resources/539