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1 Advancing Earthquake Engineering Education through a Cooperative Effort Using Instructional Shake Tables Shirley J. Dyke Scott Johnson, Juan Caicedo, Tyler Ranf, Manuel Soto-Fournier Washington University in St. Louis 7 th US National Conference on Earthquake Engineering Boston, Massachusetts

2 .cive.wustl.edu.cive.wustl.edu Acknowledgments  Support for UCIST from NSF Grant (DUE 9950340)  Mid-America Earthquake Center (Project ED-9) plus travel support for 7NCEE  Washington University in St. Louis  Quanser Consulting

3 .cive.wustl.edu.cive.wustl.edu Outline  Background  Objectives of UCIST  Equipment Selection  Outcomes to Date  Example Outreach Activities  Research Implementation  Closing

4 .cive.wustl.edu.cive.wustl.edu Background  History Proposed at 1998 Trilateral Earthquake Center Education meeting in St. Louis MAE Project ED-9: Instruc. Shake Tables NSF – DUE/CCLI Funding Obtained (DUE Grant No. 9950340 – Aug 1999) Consortium became operational in summer 2000

5 .cive.wustl.edu.cive.wustl.edu Background University of Alaska – Fairbanks University of Hawaii UC San Diego UCLA UC-Irvine Univ. of Nevada – Las Vegas Univ. or Nevada - Reno UC Davis Stanford Oregon State Univ. San Jose State Univ. Penn State UIUC Southern Illinois Univ. - Edwardsville Virginia Tech Washington Univ. Notre Dame Univ. of Utah CalPoly Florida A& M Currently over 50 Universities are members !

6 .cive.wustl.edu.cive.wustl.edu Objectives of UCIST  To provide engineering students an understanding of structural dynamics experience with modern laboratory equipment and instrumentation exposure to innovative structural control techniques  To provide non-engineering students Awareness of potential consequences of earthquakes

7 .cive.wustl.edu.cive.wustl.edu Objectives of UCIST  Approach Purchase instructional shake tables Develop wide variety of experiments Share experiments through web page Integrate experiments throughout undergraduate and graduate curricula Enhance outreach activities Encourage undergraduate research

8 .cive.wustl.edu.cive.wustl.edu Equipment Selection Function Generator Power Supply Shake Table Building Safety Feature Shake Table 2 Story building 3 accelerometers Power Unit & Computer Data acquisition Pendant controller AMD (Optional)

9 .cive.wustl.edu.cive.wustl.edu Equipment Selection

10 .cive.wustl.edu.cive.wustl.edu

11 .cive.wustl.edu.cive.wustl.edu Outcomes to Date  Experiments (Examples) Introduction to Dynamics of Structures K-12 Outreach Activities in Earthquake Engineering (Notre Dame) Earthquake-Resistant Bridge Competition for Introductory Engineering Students

12 .cive.wustl.edu.cive.wustl.edu Outcomes to Date

13 .cive.wustl.edu.cive.wustl.edu  Experiments (Examples) Introduction to Dynamics of Structures K-12 Outreach Activities in Earthquake Engineering (Notre Dame) Earthquake-Resistant Bridge Competition for Introductory Engineering Students

14 .cive.wustl.edu.cive.wustl.edu Outcomes to Date  Other Representative Experiments Demonstration of Non-Structural Seismic Hazards in the Home Dynamic Behavior of Simple Soil- Structure Systems Liquefaction Demonstration for the UCIST Shake Table Small Shake Table Experiments and Comparison to Analytical Predictions

15 .cive.wustl.edu.cive.wustl.edu Outcomes to Date Interactive Tutorial on Pendant Operation (by Keenan Bull, REU 2000)

16 .cive.wustl.edu.cive.wustl.edu Outcomes to Date Virtual Structural Dynamics Lab (by Manuel Soto-Fournier, REU 2001)

17 .cive.wustl.edu.cive.wustl.edu Outreach Activities  Earthquake Awareness Weekend (Wash U)

18 .cive.wustl.edu.cive.wustl.edu Outreach Activities  K-12 Outreach (Notre Dame)

19 .cive.wustl.edu.cive.wustl.edu Research Implementations ◙ Wave Model Verification Studies (Washington Univ.)

20 .cive.wustl.edu.cive.wustl.edu Research Implementations ◙ Wave Model Verification Studies (Washington Univ.) ◙Wireless Sensor Development (Stanford Univ.)

21 .cive.wustl.edu.cive.wustl.edu Research Implementations WebLab™ Animated Model Real-time Video Input Selection Output ◙ Wave Model Verification Studies (Washington Univ.) ◙Wireless Sensor Development (Stanford Univ.) ◙Telepresence Laboratory (Notre Dame)

22 .cive.wustl.edu.cive.wustl.edu Closing  Evaluation of the project’s impact is planned through… Online surveys for faculty and students Number of students exposed to project Web page statistics

23 .cive.wustl.edu.cive.wustl.edu Closing 0 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 12000 Feb. Mar. Apr. May Jun. Jul. Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec. Jan. 200020012002

24 .cive.wustl.edu.cive.wustl.edu ucist@cive.wustl.edu For more information see: http://ucist.cive.wustl.edu/


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