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Welcome to the University at Buffalo's NEES Equipment Site
The University at Buffalo is a home to a key equipment site, NEES@buffalo (UB-NEES), in the nationwide earthquake engineering collaboratory, the National Science Foundation's "George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation" (NEES). In this network, earthquake engineers and students located at different institutions around our nation and the world, are able to share resources, collaborate, and exploit new computational technologies.
The UB-NEES provides services to NSF sponsored projects and other projects approved by the NEEScomm Board of Directors. The UB-NEES facility features the following:
- Two Earthquake Simulators, known also as Shake Tables:
- Two relocatable 7.0m x7.0m platforms with six-degrees-of-freedom, 50 tons payload each
- A two-story uni-axial Shaking Table system used as Non-structural Component Simulator
- A 175 m2 Strong Reaction Wall and 340 m2 Strong Testing Floor
- A uni-axial Laminar Box for 1.0 g soil testing
- Reconfigurable assemblies of Static and Dynamic Servo-controlled Actuators with advanced control systems (STS, Flextest, etc)
- A High Performance Hydraulic Power Supply with a flow rate of 6000 liters per minute (1600 gallons per minute)
- High speed wide band Local and Wide Area Gigabit Networks interfaced and supported by NEEScomm IT services
- Tele-presence & Tele-operations capabilities for local and wide area collaborations in real-time
- Advanced Dynamic, Pseudo-dynamic, and Static Testing Capabilities including a generic advanced procedure Real Time Dynamic Hybrid Testing (RTDHT)
A detailed description of the facility, its components, and procedures of use can be found in the Lab Manual.
What's New
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UB-NEES Hosts NEES Board of Directors
August 14, 2008the UB-NEES site hosted a visit for the NEES Board of Directors who are holding their quarterly board meeting in Buffalo, N.Y. on August 15, 2008. The following eight Board Members attended the visit: Roberto Leon, John Bobbitt, Shirley Dyke, JoAnn Browning, Jim Myers, Julio Ramirez, Jim Ricles and Ken Stoke. Also in attendance were Dr. Joy Pauschke, NSF’s-NEES Program Director and Dr. Steve McCabe, CEO of NEESInc.
For more information click here
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