Researchers probe how strong buildings must be to survive tsunamis
March 20, 2012
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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 [...]
Advances in Real Time Hybrid Simulation Workshop
August 26, 2011
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Two-day workshop on Advances in Real-Time Hybrid Simulation workshop to be held October 10-11, 2011.
Upcoming workshop
August 16, 2011
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The RTMD facility is planning a RTHS workshop for mid-October. Look for more details at this website or ATLSS Website very soon.
Distributed RT Hybrid Testing
March 17, 2011
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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
Pictures from William Allen HS Field Trip
March 8, 2011
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Pictures from the William Allen High School Field Trip on February 25th, 2011, are posted under the Photos section of the website
Student Field Trip this Friday
February 22, 2011
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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 [...]
Testing on passive damping systems
February 18, 2011
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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.
NEES equipment maintenance
January 17, 2011
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MTS will be here from Jan. 24 through Feb. 24 to calibrate the NEES actuators. HT Lyons will be here from Feb. 7 through Feb. 16 to install relief valves on the accumulators. There will be limited NEES testing during this time.
“Megaquake 10.0″ History Channel Special Features NEES Projects
January 11, 2011
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The History Channel will present Megaquake 10.0 on Wednesday, January 12, at 9 p.m. Eastern Time. The two-hour, non-fiction special explores one of the most deadly and perplexing mysteries that surrounds planet earth: huge megaquakes.
SteelDay 2010
September 24, 2010
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The ATLSS Center hosted their 2nd annual SteelDay event on September 24th, 2010.