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Hybrid Testing Facility

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Hybrid testing facility at the University of Buffalo's Structural Engineering and Earthquake Simulation Laboratory.

The University of Buffalo's (UB) Structural Engineering and Earthquake Simulation Laboratory will be a key node in a nationwide earthquake engineering "collaboratory"—the George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES). In this network, earthquake engineers and students located at different institutions will be able to share resources, collaborate on testing, and exploit new computational technologies. The goal of UB's NEES node project is to develop the most versatile earthquake engineering research facility possible, providing testing capabilities that will revolutionize the understanding of how very large structures react to a wide range of seismic activity, even when tested to complete failure. One new technique UB will explore is called real-time dynamic hybrid testing in which shake table and/or dynamic force experiments on substructures are combined in real time with computer simulations of the remainder of the structure. This will provide a more complete picture of how earthquakes would affect large structures without the need to physically test the entire structure.

The testing facility was developed with support from NSF (grants CMS 00-86611 and CMS 00-86612), ICMS, and the NEES program.

[See related image, Dual Shake Table.]

Hybrid Testing Facility
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Credit: Courtesy University of Buffalo and MTS Systems Corporation
Year of Image: 2001

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ENGINEERING / Mechanical

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