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Hybrid Simulation Workshop
April 26–27, 2007

UC Berkeley, Richmond Field Station, nees@berkeley Equipment Site

Agenda

Day 1 - April 26, 2007 - Classroom in Building 180, Richmond Field Station

8:30 - 9:00

Breakfast at nees@berkeley

9:00 - 12:30 Hybrid Simulation Basics
  9:00 - 9:10

Welcome. (Stojadinovic)

  9:10 - 10:30

Introduction. Modeling and similitude; Sub-structuring.(Stojadinovic)

  10:30 - 10:45

Coffee break

  10:45 - 12:30

Integration methods. Simulation errors. (Stojadinovic)

     
12:30 - 1:15 Lunch  
     
1:15 - 5:30

Hybrid Simulation Implementation at nees@berkeley

  1:15 - 2:15

Introduction to OpenSees (McKenna)

  2:15 - 3:15 Implementation framework; OpenFresco (Schellenberg)
  3:15 - 3:30 Coffee break
  3:30 - 4:30

Hybrid simulation on MTS hardware (Jiran and Schellenberg)

  4:30 - 5:15

OpenSees Navigator: Tool for hybrid simulation (Yang)

  5:15 - 5:30

Review and wrap-up of Day 1. (Stojadinovic)

   
5:30 - 6:30

nees@berkeley Lab tour (Stojadinovic)

7:00 - 8:30 Workshop dinner hosted by MTS

Day 2 - April 27, 2007 - Classroom in Building 180, Richmond Field Station

8:30 - 9:00

Breakfast at nees@berkeley

9:00 - 11:30

Hybrid Simulation: Hands-On Part 1

  9:00 - 9:45

Zipper frame example. (Yang)

  9:45 - 10:15 Develop your own example (work in groups of three or four people).
  10:15 - 10:30

Coffee break

  10:30 - 11:30

First demo: MTS FlexTest (Jiran, Schellenberg, Takhirov)

11:30 - 12:30

OpenSees structural modeling and simulation (Mazzoni)

   
12:30 - 1:15 (Working) Lunch
   
1:15 - 2:15

OpenSees solution algorithms (McKenna)

2:15 - 11:30

Hybrid Simulation: Hands-On Part 2

  2:15 - 2:45 Network, telepresence and data storage at nees@berkeley. (Patterson)
  2:45 - 3:15 Video and still imaging at nees@berkeley. (Takhirov)
  3:15 - 3:30

Coffee break

  3:30 - 4:15

Second demo: Hybrid simulation test (Yang, Schellenberg, Takhirov)

4:15 - 4:30 NEES-R proposals: past experience and new proposals (Stojadinovic)
4:30 - 4:45 Workshop review (Stojadinovic)
4:45 - 5:00

Attendee feedback

Instructors Information

For questions regarding specific presentations, please feel free to contact the presenter directly. Otherwise, send email to nees@berkeley.edu.

Bozidar Stojadinovic Associate Professor boza@ce.berkeley.edu
Andreas Schellenberg Doctoral Candidate andreas.schellenberg@gmx.net
Tony Yang Post Doctoral / Researcher yangtony2004@gmail.com
Silvia Mazzoni Research Engineer  
Frank McKenna Research Engineer fmckenna@ce.berkeley.edu
Donald A Patterson NEES-ES LAN Administrator donald_patterson@berkeley.edu
Shakhzod Takhirov NEES_ES Staff Engineer takhirov@berkeley.edu
Scott Jiran Product Manager, MTS System Corp. scott.jiran@mts.com

Workshop webpages: Flyer, Presentations, Photos and Main pages

nees@berkeley Laboratory • UC Berkeley — Richmond Field Station • 1301 South 46th Street, Building 484 • Richmond, CA 94804 • nees@berkeley.edu