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Welcome to the University at Buffalo's NEES Equipment Site
The University at Buffalo's (UB) Structural Engineering and Earthquake Simulation Laboratory (SEESL) is hosting a key equipment site, NEES@buffalo, in a 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 are able to share resources, collaborate on testing, and exploit new computational technologies.
The SEESL facility has following capabilities which are available to NEES and non-NEES participants:
- Three Earthquake Simulators, known also as Shake Tables:
- Two relocatable 7.0m x7.0m platforms with six-degrees-of-freedom, 50 tons payload each
- One 3.6m x 3.6m with five-degrees of freedom, 50 tons payload
- A two stories bi-axial Shaking Table system used as Non-structural Component Simulator
- A 175 m2 Strong Reaction Wall for reactions to horizontal loading devices (actuators) for large scale testing
- A 340 m2 Strong Testing Floor for vertical reactions and tie downs of large scale models
- A bi-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 flow exceeding 6000 litters per minute (1600 gallons per minute)
- High speed wide band Local and Wide Area Gigabit Networks interfaced and supported by with NEESit 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.
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