George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES)

NSF 00-6, NEES: Earthquake Engineering Research Equipment Awards

Award CMS-0217293
"Large High Performance Outdoor Shake Table Facility"
University of California, San Diego
Frieder Seible, PI
$5,890,000
https://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/servlet/showaward?award=0217293                         NEES Project Web Camera: http://cecam.hpwren.ucsd.edu

Award CMS-0086624
"Development of a Biaxial Multiple Shake Table Research Facility"
University of Nevada, Reno
Ian Buckle, PI
$4,398,450
https://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/servlet/showaward?award=0086624
http://www.unr.edu/nevadanews/vol4no125.html
NEES project home page: http://bric.ce.unr.edu/nees/nees.htm

Award CMS-0086612
"Versatile High Performance Shake Tables Facility towards Real-Time Hybrid Seismic Testing"
State University of New York, University at Buffalo
Michel Bruneau, PI
$6,160,785
https://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/servlet/showaward?award=0086612
http://www.buffalo.edu/scripts/newnews/index.cgi?article=105million
NEES project home page: http://nees.buffalo.edu/

GEOTECHNICAL CENTRIFUGE RESEARCH EQUIPMENT

Award CMS-0086566
"A NEES Geotechnical Centrifuge Facility"
University of California, Davis
Bruce Kutter, PI
$4,614,294
https://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/servlet/showaward?award=0086566
http://www-dateline.ucdavis.edu/100600/DL_quake.html
NEES project home page: http://cgm.engr.ucdavis.edu/NEES/

Award CMS-0086555
"Upgrading, Development and Integration of Next Generation Earthquake Engineering Experimental Capability at Rensselaer's 100 g-ton Geotechnical Centrifuge"
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Ricardo Dobry, PI
$2,380,579
https://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/servlet/showaward?award=0086555
http://www.rpi.edu/~dobryr/centrifuge/NEES.htm
NEES project home page: http://www.ce.rpi.edu/centrifuge 

Award CMS-0086571
"Upgrading Oregon State's Multidirectional Wave Basin for Remote Tsunami Research"
Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon
Solomon Yim, PI
$4,775,832
https://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/servlet/showaward?award=0086571
http://osu.orst.edu/dept/ncs/newsarch/2001/Feb01/tsunami.htm
NEES project home page :http://nees.orst.edu

Award CMS-0217366
"Large displacement  Soil-Structure Interaction Facility for Lifeline Systems"
Corenell University
Harry Steward, PI
$2,072,716
https://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/servlet/showaward?award=0217366

Award CMS-0217393
"Real-time Multi-directional Testing Facility for Seismic Performance Simulation of Large-Scale Structural Systems"
Lehigh University
James Ricles, PI
$2,593,317
https://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/servlet/showaward?award=0217393

Award CMS-0086611
"Large-Scale High Performance Testing Facility towards Real-Time Hybrid Seismic Testing"
State University of New York, University at Buffalo
Michel Bruneau, PI
$4,379,865
https://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/servlet/showaward?award=0086611
http://www.buffalo.edu/scripts/newnews/index.cgi?article=105million
NEES project home page: http://nees.buffalo.edu

Award CMS-0086621
"Reconfigurable Reaction Wall-Based Earthquake Simulator Facility"
University of California at Berkeley
Jack Moehle, PI
$4,268,323
https://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/servlet/showaward?award=0086621
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2001/02/06_tech.html
NEES project home page: http://nees.berkeley.edu.

Award CMS-0086592
"Fast Hybrid Test Platform for the Seismic Performance Evaluation of Structural Systems"
University of Colorado, Boulder
P. Benson Shing, PI
$1,983,553
https://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/servlet/showaward?award=0086592
NEES project home page: http://ceae.colorado.edu/nees

Award CMS-0086602
"A System for Multi-Axial Subassemblage Testing (MAST)"
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Catherine French, PI
$6,472,049
https://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/servlet/showaward?award=0086602
NEES project home page: http://www.ce.umn.edu/mast

Award CMS-0217325
"Multi-Axial Full-Scale Sub-Structuring Testing and Simulation Facility"
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Amr Elnashai, PI
$2,958,011
https://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/servlet/showaward?award=0217325                         NEES Project Home Page: NEES MUST-SIM Web Site: http://cee.uiuc.edu/research/nees

Award CMS-0217421
"Permanently Instrumented Field Sites for Study of Soil-Foundation-Stturcture Interaction"
Brigham Young University
T. Leslie Youd, PI
$1,944,423
https://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/servlet/showaward?award=0217421                          NEES Project Home Page: BYU/UCSB/USC NEES  ES website: http://nees.crustal.ucsb.edu/

Award CMS-0086596
"Field Testing and Monitoring of Structural Performance"
University of California, Los Angeles
John Wallace, PI
$2,652,761
https://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/servlet/showaward?award=0086596
NEES project home page: http://www.cee.ucla.edu

Award CMS-0086605
"Large-Scale Mobile Shakers and Associated Instrumentation for Dynamic Field Studies of Geotechnical and Structural Systems"
University of Texas at Austin
Kenneth Stokoe II, PI
$2,937,036
https://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/servlet/showaward?award=0086605
NEES Project Home Page: http://www.geo.utexas.edu/nees

NSF 00-7, NEES: System Integration

Award CMS-0117853
"NEESgrid: A Distributed Virtual Laboratory for Advanced Earthquake Experimentation and Simulation"
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Daniel Reed, PI
$10,000,000
https://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/servlet/showaward?award=0117853
NEES Project Home Page: http://www.neesgrid.org.

Award CMS-0004246
"Earthquake Engineering Research Community Workshop"
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Thomas I. Prudhomme, PI
$89,100
https://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/servlet/showaward?award=0004246
Workshop Report: http://www.neesgrid.org

NSF 01-56, George E. Brown, Jr. Networking for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES): Consortium Development

Award CMS-0126366
"George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) Consortium Development Project"
Consortium of Universities for Research in Earthquake Engineering
Robert Reitherman, PI
$1,999, 907
https://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/servlet/showaward?award=0126366
Project web site: http://www.nees.org

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