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/