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Home » Facilities » Shake Table Specifications Shake Table Specifications Full Size The design criteria and main specifications of the shake table system were dictated by consideration of a number of potential research applications involving large or fullscale shake table experiments and a variety of earthquake ground motions
Learn MoreThe Large HighPerformance Outdoor Shake Table is supported in part by the George E Brown Jr Network for Engineering Simulation NEES program of the National Science Foundation under Award Number CMMI0927178
Learn MoreThe NEES UCSD Large High Performance Outdoor Shake Table LHPOST provides the earthquake engineering community with a facility that allows the accurate reproduction of severe nearsource earthquake ground motions for the seismic testing of very large structural and soilfoundationstructure interaction SFSI systems
Learn MoreUC San Diego Shake Table Media Page Contacts for Reporters Shake table media relations staff contacts Videos Current project Footage from 615 tests broll from 61016 and 61316 construction time lapse NHERI Shaketable Videos on YouTube Live video feeds from shake table
Learn MoreJul 13 2017 · The researchers from a consortium of US universities with collaborators from industry and the public sector are performing the testing at the UC San Diego shake table It is part of the Englekirk Structural Engineering Center at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering
Learn MoreOct 18 2018 · In the past 14 years research at UC San Diego’s shake table which is housed at the university’s Englekirk Structural Engineering Center has led to important changes in design codes for commercial and residential structures and new insights into the seismic performance of geotechnical systems such as foundations tunnels and retaining walls
Learn MoreWith the world’s first outdoor Large High Performance LHP shake table the Englekirk Structural Engineering Center at the University of California San Diego is enabling structural tests that have never been possible before
Learn MoreNov 26 2019 · These service agreements are contracts between UC San Diego and a nonfederal client where the client will pay UC San Diego to conduct services and the service will not result in the development or enhancement of any intellectual property Incoming refers to the flow of funds in the context of an incoming service agreement at UC San Diego the UCSD PI will be paid for conducting
Learn MoreThe Large HighPerformance Outdoor Shake Table is supported in part by the George E Brown Jr Network for Engineering Simulation NEES program of the National Science Foundation under Award Number CMMI0927178
Learn MoreOct 18 2018 · World’s Largest Outdoor Shake Table Receives 163M from NSF for Upgrades The world’s largest outdoor earthquake simulator operated by structural engineers at the University of California San Diego has received a 163 million grant from the National Science Foundation to upgrade the facility to expand its testing capabilities
Learn MoreThe NEES UCSD Large High Performance Outdoor Shake Table LHPOST provides the earthquake engineering community with a facility that allows the accurate reproduction of severe nearsource earthquake ground motions for the seismic testing of very large structural and soilfoundationstructure interaction SFSI systems
Learn MoreUC San Diego Shake Table Media Page Contacts for Reporters Shake table media relations staff contacts Videos Current project Footage from 615 tests broll from 61016 and 61316 construction time lapse NHERI Shaketable Videos on YouTube Live video feeds from shake table
Learn MoreThe researchers from a consortium of US universities with collaborators from industry and the public sector are performing the tests on the UC San Diego shake table the largest outdoor shake table in the facility is part of NHERIUCSD an experimental facility at UC San Diego funded by the National Science Foundation as part of its Natural Hazard Engineering Research Infrastructure
Learn MoreApr 24 2012 · Systems similar to the one tested on the UC San Diego shake table have been used to retrofit the Los Angeles Oakland and San Francisco city halls among other structures Base isolation also is used in new construction in the United States and is fairly widespread in Japan
Learn MoreUC San Diego’s shake table housed at the Englekirk Structural Engineering Center in Scripps Ranch has been used to test everything from wind turbines to masonry woodframe and precast concrete buildings as well as nonstructural building elements such as
Learn MoreUC San Diego Shake Table Robot Win Best of Whats New Awards from Popular Science The biggest outdoor shake table in the world and a robot designed to move along utility lines have received Best of What’s New awards from Popular Science the world’s largest science and technology magazine The two projects are featured in the magazine’s December issue now on newsstands
Learn MoreThe NEES UCSD Large High Performance Outdoor Shake Table is capable of creating realistic simulations of the most devastating earthquakes ever and has no height restrictions thus enabling structural tests which have never been possible before The facility is part of the National Science Foundations George E Brown Jr NEES program
Learn MoreThe shake table is the only facility in the world allowing engineers to study the impact of such secondary damage on fullscale buildings Reporters prepare to record a test on a fivestory building equipped with a wide range of nonstructural components such as an elevator and sprinklers at the UC San Diego shake table in April 2012
Learn MoreNEESUCSD Large High Performance Outdoor Shake Table LHPOST provides the earthquake engineering community with a facility that allows the accurate reproduction of severe nearsource earthquake ground motions for the seismic testing of very large structural and SFSI systems
Learn MoreNov 14 2013 · UC San Diegos shake table housed at the Englekirk Structural Engineering Center in Scripps Ranch has been used to test everything from wind turbines to masonry woodframe and precast concrete
Learn MoreDesign Scaling Similitude and Modeling of ShakeModeling of ShakeTable TestTable Test Structures Andreas Stavridis Benson Shing and Joel Conte University of California San DiegoUniversity of California San Diego NEESUC San Diego NEESUBuffalo NEESUNevada‐Reno Shake Table Training Workshop 2010 – San Diego CA
Learn MoreAlthough the LHPOST is a shareduse facility the shake table was fully booked with NEES research projects during the FY 200708 FY 200809 and FY 20092010 Additional NEES projects are scheduled continuously until July 2013 In addition to research projects the shake table is available for industry related testing at a recharge rate
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