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UCISTUniversity Consortium on Instructional Shake Tables
Shirley J. DykeWashington University in St. Louis
March 23, 2000
UCIST Project Description
• Acquire bench-scale shake tables for undergraduate experiments
• Involves 23 universities from the three national earthquake centers (PEER, MCEER, MAE)
• Each university has purchased a shake table and is developing an experiment
Goals and Objectives
• Develop a series of experiments to incorporate into undergraduate CE curriculum
• Improve students understanding of the dynamic nature of structures
• Provide exposure to non-engineering students about the potential consequences of earthquakes
Project Activities
• Classroom Experiments
• Videos on Experiments
• Undergraduate and School Children Competitions
• CD-ROM of Experiments and Videos
• Undergraduate Research Projects
• Outreach Activities
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Instructional Earthquake Simulator
Classroom Activities
CE 146: Intro to Civil Engrg
CE 336: StructuralMaterials Lab
Outreach Activities
Research Projects
Instructional Shake Table
INCLUDES
• Shake Table
• 2 story building
• 3 accelerometers
• Computer
• Real-time control/data
acquisition board
• Function generator
Timeline
Fall1999
Develop Specs
Funding Obtained
CD-ROM Assembled
Spring2001
Prototype Testing
Spring2000
Deliver Shake Tables
Summer2000
Fall2000
Develop Experiments
Sample Experiments
• Demonstration of Lateral-Torsional Coupling in Buildings
• Seismic Response of Building Frames
• Demonstration of Non-Structural Seismic Hazards in the Home
• Dynamic Behavior of Simple Soil-Structure Systems
• Web-Controlled Shake Table
• K-12 Outreach Activities in Earthquake Engineering
• Demonstration Experiment of Sloshing Fluid Damper and
Tuned Mass Damper
Project Evaluation
• Evaluation is planned through the web site
• Each faculty/student involved will complete
annual on-line surveys
• Web page statistics will provide external
impact measures (domains, countries)
Web Server Statistics
otenet.gr
ucsd.edu
pc0027.co.uk
ucdavis.edu
nd.edu
wsu.edu
cornell.edu
edu.au
cols.net
aae.ac.jp
psu.edu
duke.edu
unican.es
Web Server Statistics (Countries)
Future Directions
• Finalize example experiment
• Build a tutorial program for getting started
using the shake tables
• On-line surveys for web site visitors
For more information:
http://ucist.cive.wustl.edu/