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The NEES MUST-SIM Facility

The NEES MUST-SIM Facility. Multi-Axial Full-Scale Sub-Structured Testing and Simulation Facility. Agenda. Agenda. NEES Background The Equipment Sites General Introduction of the MUST-SIM Facility The MUST-SIM Facility Components Centralized NEESit Services

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The NEES MUST-SIM Facility

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  1. The NEES MUST-SIM Facility Multi-Axial Full-ScaleSub-Structured Testing and Simulation Facility

  2. Agenda

  3. Agenda

  4. NEES Background • The Equipment Sites • General Introduction of the MUST-SIM Facility • The MUST-SIM Facility Components • Centralized NEESit Services • The MUST-SIM Experimental Method (1/5th-scale and Hybrid Testing)

  5. The George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) • 2000 – 2004: 70M 15 New Experimental Testing Facilities • 2000 – 2004: 12M NEESgrid Cyberinfrastructure Program • 2001 ->: Creation of NEES Consortium • 2004 – 2014: 250M Operations and Maintenance • 2004 – 2014: Annual RFP

  6. What is Special About NEES • Size of Financial Investment (~ 500 million in 14 yrs) • First Major Research Equipment Grant in Engineering • Distributed Network of Facilities • Real Time Sharing of Experimental and Computational Test • Data Using Sophistical Protocols and Visualization Tools • Integration of Computational and Analytical Research • Bringing together Researchers from Multiple Fields • Development of Curated Repository of Test Data

  7. Remote Users NEES Resources Instrumented Structures and Sites (Faculty, Students, Practitioners) Simulation Tools Repository Laboratory Equipment Field Equipment Curated Data Repository Leading Edge Computation Global Connections Remote Users: (K-12 Faculty and Students) Laboratory Equipment

  8. Lehigh University http://www.nees.lehigh.edu/ University of Texas at Austin http://nees.utexas.edu/ University at Buffalo, SUNY http://nees.buffalo.edu/ University of California, Los Angeles http://nees.ucla.edu/ University of California, San Diego http://nees.ucsd.edu/ NEES Infrastructure Oregon State University http://nees.orst.edu/ University of Minnesota http://nees.umn.edu University of Colorado, Boulder http://nees.colorado.edu/ Brigham Young University/ University of California, Santa Barbara http://nees.ucsb.edu/ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign http://nees.uiuc.edu/ University of Nevada, Reno http://nees.unr.edu/ Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute http://nees.rpi.edu/ Cornell University http://nees.cornell.edu/ NEESgrid Cyberinfrastructurehttp://www.neesgrid.org/ University of California, Davis http://nees.ucdavis.edu/ University of California, Berkeley http://nees.berkeley.edu

  9. Dual (Relocatable) Shake Tables & High Performance Actuators State University of New York, University at Buffalo NSF NEES Awards CMS-0086611 and CMS-0086612

  10. Multiple Biaxial Shake Table Research Facility University of Nevada, Reno National Science Foundation NEES Award CMS-0086624

  11. Geotechnical Centrifuge (Modeling) Facility University of California, Davis National Science Foundation NEES Award CMS-0086566

  12. 100 g-ton Geotechnical Centrifuge Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute National Science Foundation NEES Award CMS-0086555

  13. Tsunami Wave Basin Expansion Oregon State University Future Current National Science Foundation NEES Award CMS-0086571

  14. Reconfigurable Reaction Wall-Based Earthquake Simulator Facility University of California, Berkeley National Science Foundation NEES Award CMS-0086621

  15. A System for Multi-Axial Subassemblage Testing (MAST) University of Minnesota National Science Foundation NEES Award CMS-0086602

  16. Fast Hybrid Test Platform University of Colorado, Boulder National Science Foundation NEES Award CMS-0086592

  17. Field Testing & Monitoring of Structural Performance University of California, Los Angels National Science Foundation NEES Award CMS-0086596

  18. Field Testing Equipment University of Texas, Austin National Science Foundation NEES Award CMS-0086605

  19. Real Time Multi-Directional Testing Facility Lehigh University National Science Foundation NEES Award CMS-0217393

  20. Large Displacement Soil-Structure Interaction Facility for Lifeline Systems Cornell University National Science Foundation NEES Award CMS-0217366

  21. Large Uniaxial Shake Table University of California, San Diego National Science Foundation NEES Award CMS-0217293

  22. Permanently instrumented field sites for SFSI study Brigham Young University National Science Foundation NEES Award CMS-0217421

  23. Multi-Axial Full-scale Sub-Structuring Testing & Simulation Facility University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Loading and Boundary Condition Boxes (LBCB) National Science Foundation NEES Award CMS-0217325

  24. Construction Phase Multi-Axial Full Scale Sub-Structured Testing and Simulation (MUST-SIM) Facilityat the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Amr Elnashai Dan Kuchma Bill Spencer Andrew Alleyne Jamshid Ghaboussi Youssef Hashash

  25. Operation Phase Amr Elnashai Bill Spencer Jerry Hajjar Dan Kuchma

  26. Substructure Pseudo-dynamic Testing Physical Tests Numerical Simulation Structural Test Structural FE Simulation 1 Geotechnical FE Simulation 2 Geotechnical Test at Another Lab Total System

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