RTHS being performed this week

RTHS of a Large-scale Steel Structure with Nonlinear Viscous Dampers will take place February 21 – 22, 2013 between 1 and 4 pm EST. The RTHS test matrix includes conducting a series of simulations using an ensemble of 13 earthquake records at the design basis earthquake (DBE) level.

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Simulating Earthquakes by Combining Analytical Models with Physical Structures

Mathworks spotlights Hybrid Testing at the RTMD lab and showcases how we use their tools to fulfill our vision.

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Hybrid Simulation Data Model now supported with NEEShub Release 4.0

The Project Editor and PEN tools through NEEShub now support organizing and curating Hybrid Simulation project and specimen data.

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Researchers probe how strong buildings must be to survive tsunamis

Clay J. Naito started to feel woozy in his ninth-floor hotel room in Japan, then quickly realized the reason: The entire building was shaking. It was not the earthquake that unleashed a deadly tsunami a year ago on March 11 – a surge of water that topped 60 feet in places – but a much [...]

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Advances in Real Time Hybrid Simulation Workshop

Two-day workshop on Advances in Real-Time Hybrid Simulation workshop to be held October 10-11, 2011.

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Upcoming workshop

The RTMD facility is planning a RTHS workshop for mid-October. Look for more details at this website or ATLSS Website very soon.

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Distributed RT Hybrid Testing

Lehigh University, University of Connecticut and UIUC will be conducting Real-Time Distributed Hybrid tests using MR Dampers today and tomorrow. More information to follow through this website and NEES.org

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Pictures from William Allen HS Field Trip

Pictures from the William Allen High School Field Trip on February 25th, 2011, are posted under the Photos section of the website

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Student Field Trip this Friday

Excelling 10th grade students from William Allen High School will be taking a field trip to our RTMD facility Friday morning, February 25th to learn more about how earthquakes affect buildings and how researchers perform experiments to validate damage prevention techniques to protect buildings from seismic activity.  They will take a lab tour, learn lessons [...]

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Testing on passive damping systems

The vision for this research is a validated probabilistic, performance-based seismic design procedure for buildings with passive damping systems. Tests at the Lehigh NEES equipment site will characterize the dampers; analytical models for the dampers will be calibrated and validated.

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