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NEES@ Berkeley

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  1. NEES@Berkeley Earthquake response simulation using dynamic hybrid simulation and conventional structural testing capabilities to examine the behavior of large-scale structural systems under earthquake excitation through real-time integration of computer models and physical testing of sub-structures.

  2. NEES@Berkeley Large-scale Structural Engineering Lab A Reconfigurable Reaction Wall & Hybrid Simulation Capability with

  3. NEES@Buffalo Specializing in testing of full or large-scale structures using static or dynamic loading through earthquake simulation.

  4. NEES@Buffalo Structural Engineering and Earthquake Simulation Laboratory

  5. NEES@Cornell Focused on underground lifeline response to large ground deformation and the seismic performance of highly ductile structures using advanced materials and construction.

  6. NEES@Cornell Large-Scale Lifelines Testing Facility

  7. NEES@Illinois The MUST-SIM Testing Facility provides realistic full-scale substructure testing with dense instrumentation, advancing performance-based design methods and validating computational models.

  8. NEES@Illinois MUST-SIM Testing Facility in Action

  9. NEES@Lehigh Investigation of the seismic behavior of large-scale structural components, structural subsystems, and supersystems through dynamic testing with the combined use of dynamic actuators, controllers, data acquisition systems and simulation controllers.

  10. NEES@Lehigh The largest large-scale multi-directional real time testing facility in North America.

  11. NEES@Minnesota Specializing in investigating the effects of earthquakes, hurricanes, and other extreme events on large structural components up to several stories tall in through our unique Multi-Axial Subassemblage Testing (MAST) Laboratory.

  12. NEES@Minnesota MAST is the largest laboratory of its kind in the world.

  13. NEES@OregonState The Tsunami Wave Basin at Oregon State is designed to understand the fundamental nature of tsunami inundation including: tsunami inundation and overland flow tsunami-structure impact tsunami debris flow and scour harbor resonance

  14. NEES@OregonState Large Wave Flume Tsunami Wave Basin

  15. NEES@UNR The Large-Scale Structures Laboratory at the University of Nevada, Reno uses multiple large shake tables to investigate the effects of earthquakes on: Buildings Bridge systems, columns, and components Nonstructural components Soil systems, Industrial equipment

  16. NEES@UNR Steel superstructure on three biaxial shake tables in the lab.

  17. NEES@RPI The NEES equipment site at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute specializes in geotechnical engineering using the geotechnical centrifuge for pioneering experiments in the behavior of soils and foundations under cyclic and dynamic loads.

  18. NEES@RPI 150 g-ton Capacity Centrifuge

  19. NEES@UTexas Specializing in dynamic field testing using large-scale shakers. Field equipment includes: 5 mobile shakers (T-Rex, Liquidator, Thumper, Raptor & Rattler) Instrumentation van and trailer Data acquisition systems Large collection of field instrumentation

  20. NEES@UTexas The world is our equipment site; have mobile shakers, will travel TriaxialVibroseis (“T-Rex”)

  21. NEES@UCDAVIS Specializing in studying geotechnical issues using a geotechnical centrifuge to perform model tests on: Foundations for bridges and buildings Settlement of embankments Stability of slopes Earth retaining structures Tunnel stability Seawalls

  22. NEES@UCDAVIS 75-g Centrifuge and On-Board Shaker

  23. NEES@UCLA NEES@UCLA operates a state-of-the-art mobile field laboratory to enable detailed dynamic and quasi-static seismic performance characterization of full-scale structural and foundation systems. Field equipment includes: Large structural shakers Large actuators Extensive instrumentation Data acquisition systems Mobile command center CPT truck

  24. NEES@UCLA Earthquake Engineering Mobile Field Laboratory 100,000 lb Eccentric Mass Shaker Dynamic field testing in Utah

  25. NEES@UCSB The NEES@UCSB facility consists of permanently instrumented geotechnical test sites designed to improve our understanding of the effects of surface geology on strong ground motion. The Wildlife Liquefaction Array and the Garner Valley Downhole Array are instrumented with: Surface and borehole arrays of accelerometers and pore pressure transducers Instrumented structures Shakers

  26. NEES@UCSB Permanently Instrumented Field Sites Garner Valley Downhole Array Wildlife Liquefaction Array

  27. NEES@UCSD The NEES/UCSD Shake Table is the second largest shake table in the world. Large-scale structures can be shaken on the table at very large accelerations, velocities, and displacements to investigate structural response to earthquake shaking.

  28. NEES@UCSD Large High Performance Outdoor Shake Table

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