University at Buffalo
Nonstructural Components Simulator (UB-NCS)
Dedication & Demonstration Webcast – October 12, 2007
Composite Hospital Room Demonstration Specimen - The inaugural test on the University at Buffalo Nonstructural Components Simulator (UB-NCS)on October 12, 2007, demonstrated the effects of earthquake-induced building motions on a full-scale composite hospital room equipped with nonstructural content typically found in an emergency room and other critical rooms in a hospital. The nonstructural components include steel stud partition walls, suspended ceiling, sprinkler system with horizontal and vertical piping spanning both stories, and copper medical gas lines. Medical equipment includes wall-mounted patient monitors, ceiling mounted surgical lamp, free-standing IV poles with infusion pumps, operating room video equipment rack on casters, and patient gurney. The hospital room was subjected to various levels of shaking including design level motions and motions from a maximum credible earthquake.
Archived Test videos
Design Basis Earthquake Test
Maximum Considered Earthquake Test
Symposium on Seismic Regulations and Challenges
for Protecting Building Equipment, Components & Operations
and Dedication of the University at Buffalo Nonstructural Components Simulator (UB-NCS)
MCEER/UB Nonstructural Components Research and Resources
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