Education and Outreach
The nees@berkeley equipment site has hosted workshops on Hybrid Simulation that have attracted researchers from around the world interested in learning about and participating in this exciting technology. Educational activities aimed at K-12 students include developing a program of tours for local middle schools and high schools that will enhance the classroom curriculum. We have hosted tours for visiting researchers and the general public. Our faculty participants teach undergraduate and graduate courses in earthquake engineering through the Civil Engineering Department at U.C. Berkeley. The nees@berkeley participants have provided numerous presentations since its October 2004 inception.
Co-located with the nees@berkeley equipment site is one of our strongest educational assets, the Earthquake Engineering Research Library and National Information Service for Earthquake Engineering. With its 52,000 volumes on the subject of earthquake engineering, this library developed the Earthquake Engineering Abstracts (now licensed worldwide through Cambridge Scientific Abstracts) and The Earthquake Engineering Online Archive, both internationally renowned subject databases in earthquake structural and geotechnical engineering and enginering seismology.
Workshops
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Decemberl 2006 |
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Higher Education
Architecture 360: Introduction to Structural Engineering Instructor: Morrison, Hana |
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| Architecture and Community Design - University of San Francisco - April 24, 2008 | |
K-12 Education
For K-12 Activities - Class room presentation and lab tour
National Student Leadership Conference (NSLC) Program
July 25 and August 2, 2007
Project POSIT - Oakland Teachers Program
June 22, 2007
Berkeley High School Intern
February - June 2007
National Student Leadership Conference (NSLC) Program
June and July 2006
UC Berkeley Courses
Earthquake, structural and geotechnical engineering courses are taught through the Civil Engineering Department at U.C. Berkeley.
120 Structural Engineering, 121 Advanced Structural Analysis, 122 Design of Steel Structures, 123 Design of Reinforced Concrete Structures, 124 Structural Design in Timber, 133 Engineering Analysis Using Finite Element Method, 175 Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, 191 Civil and Environmental Engineering Systems Analysis, 220 Structural Analysis Theory and Applications, 221 Nonlinear Structural Analysis, 222 Finite Element Methods, 225 Dynamics of Structures, 227 Earthquake Resistant Design, 244 Reinforced Concrete Structures, 246 Prestressed Concrete Structures, 247 Design of Steel and Composite Structures, 248 Behavior and Plastic Design of Steel, 249 Experimental Methods in Structural Engineering, 275 Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering, 290I Civil Systems: Control and Information Management
Tours
EERC and The Watershed Project host open house and tours October 2006 |
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| NEESinc Site Operations Managers' Workshop September 29, 2006 |
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Eighth National Conference on Earthquake Engineering Field Trip April 21, 2006 |
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Fourth International Workshop on Seismic Design and Retrofit of Transportation Facilities - Study Tour March 15, 2006 |
Open House
Cal Day 2007
April 22, 2007
nees@berkeley Grand Opening
November 2004
Publications/Presentations/ Posters
Publications
Elkhoraibi, T. and Mosalam, K.M. (2006). “Pseudo-Dynamic Experiment on One-Story RC Structure with and without Masonry Infill”, Proceedings of the 100th Anniversary Earthquake Conference Commemorating the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, April 18-22. [Paper]
Fell, B.V., Myers, A.M., Deierlein, G.G., and Kanvinde, A.M. (2006). "Testing and Simulation of Ultra Low Cycle Fracture and Fatigue in Steel Braces." Eighth National Conference on Earthquake Engineering, San Francisco, CA. [Paper]
Fell, B.V., Myers, A.M., Fu, X., Deierlein, G.G., and Kanvinde, A.M. (2006)."Seismic Fracture and Fatigue Performance of Bracing Members and Connections." Steel Technical Information and Product Services Report (Steel TIPS), Structural Steel Educational Council (www.steeltips.org), Moraga, CA.
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Hashemi, A., Elkhoraibi, T. and Mosalam, K.M. (2006), “Dynamic and Pseudo-Dynamic Evaluation of RC Structure Containing Masonry Infill”, Proceedings of the Modern Problems and Directions of Mechanics Conference, May 17-18, Tashkent, Uzbekistan. [Paper]
Kanvinde, A. (2006) "Large-Scale Tests of Structural Braces and the Validation of Micromechanical Ultra Low Cycle Fatigue Models", Proceedings, Fourth NEES Annual Meeting, June 20-23, 2006, Washington DC.[Abstract]
Stojadinovic, B., Schellenberg, A., Yang, T.Y. and Elwood, K. (2006) "Hybrid Simulation of Structural Collapse", Proceedings, Fourth NEES Annual Meeting, June 20-23, 2006, Washington DC.[Abstract]
Takhirov S.M. and Kelly, J.M. (2006) "Numerical Study on Buckling of Elastomeric Seismic Isolation Bearings", The 2006 Structures Congress and the 17th Analysis & Computation Specialty Conference, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, May 18-21, 2006.
Yang T.Y., Stojadinovic, B. and Moehle, J. (2006) "Hybrid Simulation Evaluation of Innovative Steel Braced Framing System", Eighth National Conference on Earthquake Engineering, San Francisco, CA, USA [Paper]
Yang, T.Y., Stavridis, A., Cshachter, M. and Yang, W. (2006) "Analytical Simulations of the Suspended Zipper Frames", Proceedings, Fourth NEES Annual Meeting, pp.4, June 20-23, 2006, Washington DC. [Abstract]
Hashemi, A. and Mosalam, K.M. (2005). “Shake-table Experiment on One-Story RC Structure with and without Masonry Infill”, NATO workshop: Seismic Assessment and Rehabilitation of Existing Buildings, May30-June 1, Istanbul, Turkey. [Paper]
Leon, R. Yang, C. DesRochers, R. Reinhorn, A. Schacter, M. Stojadinovic, B. Yang, T. Shing and B. Wei, Z. (2005) "Results of Early Collaborative Research on Behavior of Braced Steel Frames with Innovative Bracing Schemes (Zipper Frames)", Proceedings of the First International Conference on Advances in Experimental Structural Engineering, 2005, Nagoya, Japan. [Paper]
Presentations
Dr. Stojadinovic was invited to make a presentation at a NEES-E-defense meeting in Japan from September 27 – 29, 2006. [Presentation]
Posters
Equipment site posters at the 5th NEES Annual Meeting, Snowbird, Utah. [Posters]
Shakhzod Takhirov presented a poster at the 2006 Structures Congress and the 17th Analysis & Computation Specialty Conference, St. Louis, Missouri. [Poster]
Posters at the 8th National Conference on Earthquake Engineering in San Francisco: Bozidar Stojadinovic, Tony Yang, Andreas Schellenberg and Ben Fell as well as the nees@berkeley poster. [Posters]
Andres Schellenberg and Tony Yang were funded by NEESinc to present posters at the Fourth NEES Annual Meeting.[Posters]
