7th International Conference on Experimental Vibration

Analysis for Civil Engineering Structures

July 12-14, 2017 - San Diego, CA, United States


WELCOME MESSAGE
Research, development, and applications in experimental vibration analysis of civil
engineering structures are being fed by the continuous progress in the fields of sensor and
testing technologies, instrumentation, data acquisition systems, computer technology, and
computational modeling and simulation of large and complex civil infrastructure systems.
The objectives and challenges are to understand the behavior and state of health of structural,
geo-structural, and soil-foundation-structural systems as well as predicting their remaining
useful life using vibration data collected from these systems when subjected to operational
and extreme loads. Advanced data analysis (e.g., system and damage identification) methods
are required to extract the needed information from the data and to gain from the information
the knowledge required to support decision making related to maintenance and inspection,
retrofit, upgrade, and rehabilitation of these systems as well as in case of emergency response.
These data analysis methods are developed using numerically simulated structural response
data, experimental data from small-scale physical structural models, experimental data from
large- or full-scale physical structural specimens tested under laboratory conditions, or field
data collected from civil structures under in-situ conditions.
EVACES, the International Conference on Experimental Vibration Analysis of Civil
Engineering Structures is a premier venue where recent progress in the field are presented
and discussed by experts from all over the world. After the first six successful editions of
EVACES which took place in Bordeaux, France (2005), Porto, Portugal (2007), Wroclaw,
Poland (2009), Varenna, Italy (2011), Ouro Preto, Brazil (2013), and Dbendorf, Switzerland
(2015), EVACES 2017 was organized by the University of California at San Diego, and held
on the main campus of the University in July 12-14, 2017.
The papers presented at EVACES 2017 are subdivided into the following sub-areas: (1)
keynote papers, (2) damage identification and structural health monitoring, (3) testing,
sensing and modeling, (3) vibration isolation and control, (4) system and model
identification, and (5) coupled dynamical systems (including human-structure, vehicle-
structure, and soil-structure interaction). These papers are published as a set of two books (e-
books and hard copies) in the Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering (LNCE) Series of Springer.
The Southern California city of San Diego and its surroundings feature one of the most
attractive locations in North America in terms of its geography, climate, natural beauty and
cultural diversity, that the conference attendees are encouraged to explore (before and/or after
the conference).
We express our sincere thanks to the members of the Organizing Committee, the members
of the Scientific Committee and, in particular, all the authors and participants for their
essential and valuable contributions.

Paris and San Diego, May 2017 Christian Cremona and Joel P. Conte


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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Joel P. Conte (Chair) UC San Diego, USA
Rodrigo Astroza Universidad de los Andes, Chile
Gianmario Benzoni UC San Diego, USA
Glauco Feltrin EMPA, Switzerland
Kenneth J. Loh UC San Diego, USA
Babak Moaveni Tufts University, USA

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
A. Emin Aktan Drexel University, USA
Rodrigo Astroza Universidad de los Andes, Chile
Flavio Barbosa Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil
Jan Bien Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland
Elsa Caetano University of Porto, Portugal
Joel P. Conte University of California San Diego, USA
Christian Cremona (Chair) Bouygues Construction, France
Alvaro Cunha University of Porto, Portugal
Alexandre Cury Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil
Guido De Roeck KU Leuven, Belgium
Glauco Feltrin EMPA, Switzerland
Alain Fournol AVLS, France
Carmelo Gentile Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Raid Karoumi KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Mieszko Kuzawa Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
Antonino Morassi University of Udine, Italy
Alex Pavic University of Exeter, United Kingdom
Patrick Paultre University of Sherbrooke, Canada
Luis F. Ramos University of Minho, Portugal


CONFERENCE TOPICS
Vibration testing and measurement techniques
Sources of excitation (testing machines, traffic loads, ambient excitation)
Sensing technologies
Vibration measurements in large structures
In-situ and laboratory experiments, benchmarks
Earthquake engineering tests
Dynamic testing of historical constructions
Vibration isolation and mitigation
Methodologies and standards
Vibration data analysis techniques (modal analysis, wavelets, nonlinear, nonstationary
processes, stochastic methods)
Modeling and simulation of vibration testing results
System identification and model updating
Structural integrity assessment
Vibration-based structural monitoring and condition assessment
Wave propagation
Effects of shocks and vibrations on humans and structures


GENERAL INFORMATION

Dates
EVACES2017 will take place from Wednesday July 12 to Friday July 14, 2017.

Venue
The conference will be held at the University of California, San Diego Campus located in La
Jolla, California. The address of UC San Diego campus is 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA
92093.

Registration
The registration and information desk will be located at the corridor on the 2nd level of Price
Center (see Maps and Directions) and will be open at the following hours:
Tuesday July 11, 2017, 13:00 to 17:00
Wednesday July 12, 2017, 8:00 to 17:00
Thursday July 13, 2017, 8:00 to 12:00
Friday, July 14, 2017, 8:00 to 10:00

Internet
Access to Internet is provided on campus. The service has no specific requirements and you
need to connect through the UCSD guest option.

Technical Exhibition
Booths of the technical exhibition will be located at the Price Center Ballroom West A and
will be open at the following hours:
Wednesday July 12, 2017, 9:00 to 17:00
Thursday July 13, 2017, 9:00 to 17:00
Friday July 14, 2017, 9:00 to 12:00

Lunches and Coffee-breaks

Lunch and coffee-breaks are included in the conference registration fee and will be served
daily. Coffee breaks will be served at the Theatre Lobby and lunches at the Price Center
Ballroom West B.

Conference Reception
The conference reception, sponsored by MTS Systems Corporation, will be held at the
Engineering Bear Courtyard on Wednesday July 12, 2017 starting at 6:00 pm.


Conference Banquet
The Conference Banquet will be held at Birch Aquarium on Thursday July 13, 2017 starting
at 6:45 pm. Complimentary shuttles will depart from campus at 6:15 pm. Please be in the
registration area no later than 6:05 pm.

Identity Cards
The participants will receive identity cards, which must be always visible during the
conference. The cards will include name, affiliation and country of each participant and one
of the following codes:
OC Organizing Committee SC Scientific Committee
FR Full Registration ST Student
EX Exhibitor


PROGRAM OVERVIEW

Day 1 - July 12, 2017

8:00-8:50 Registration
8:50-9:20 Opening ceremony Day 2 - July 13, 2017 Day 3 - July 14, 2017
9:20-10:00 Keynote 9:00-9:40 Keynote 9:00-9:40 Keynote
10:00-11:00 Parallel Sessions 9:40-10:40 Parallel Sessions 9:40-10:40 Parallel Sessions
11:00-11:30 Coffee-break 10:40-11:20 Coffee-break 10:40-11:20 Coffee-break
11:30-12:30 Parallel Sessions 11:20-12:20 Parallel Sessions 11:20-12:20 Parallel Sessions
12:30-13:50 Lunch 12:20-13:50 Lunch 12:20-13:00 Closing ceremony
13:50-14:30 Keynote 13:50-14:30 Keynote
14:30-15:30 Parallel Sessions 14:30-15:30 Parallel Sessions
15:30-16:10 Coffee-break 15:30-16:10 Coffee-break
16:10-17:10 Parallel Sessions 16:10-17:10 Parallel Sessions

INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS

Authors must deliver their PowerPoint presentations to the technical staff of EVACES present in each room at least 30 minutes before
the beginning of the corresponding session. The presenting authors must be at the room defined in the Technical Program at least 15
minutes before the beginning of the session, in order to meet with the session chair(s).


KEYNOTE LECTURES

Guido de Roeck
Emeritus Professor
University of Leuven (KU Leuven) - Belgium
Assessment of Small Damage by Direct Modal Strain
Measurements

Tracy Kijewski-Correa
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering & Earth
Sciences
University of Notre Dame - USA
Flexible Architectures for Full-Scale Performance Evaluation of Tall
Buildings: Burj Khalifa and Beyond

Kenneth J. Loh
Department of Structural Engineering
University of California, San Diego USA
Multifunctional materials for structural health monitoring

Costas Papadimitriou
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Thessaly - Greece
Information-driven Modeling of Structures using a Bayesian
Framework

Hoon Sohn
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
South Korea
Development of a High Accuracy and High Sampling Rate
Displacement Sensor for Civil Engineering Structures Monitoring


TECHNICAL PROGRAM
DAY 0: Tuesday July 11, 2017

13:00 17:00 PRE-REGISTRATION at PRICE CENTER

DAY 1: Wednesday July 12, 2017

8:00 17:00 REGISTRATION at PRICE CENTER

Room Theater
8:50 9:20 OPENING CEREMONY: Joel P. Conte
KEYNOTE: Guido de Roeck (KU Leuven)
9:20 10:00 Assessment of Small Damage by Direct Modal Strain Measurements
Chair:

Room Theater Red Shoe Room Bear Room

Chair
#013: A new system identification
method operated in the pole domain (Q.
10:00 10:20 Cao, B. Gao, H. Li, S. Hu)
#028: Effect of soil-structure interaction
on low to medium-rise steel frames
10:20 10:40 through shake table experiments (Vivek
B., P. Raychowdhury)
#085: General conditions for full-field
response monitoring in structural systems
10:40 11:00 driven by a set of identified equivalent
forces (E. Lourens, D. Fallais)
11:00 11:30 COFFEE-BREAK at PRICE CENTER (Theatre Lobby)
#094: Experimental modal properties of a
steel arch bridge during the static load
test (F. Gara, V. Nicoletti, D. Roia, A.
DallAsta)
#069: Experimental incremental system
identification method using separate time
windows on basis of ambient signals (S.
Schleiter, O. Altay, S. Klinkel)
#123: Nonlinear stay cable bridge deck
interaction (B. Weber)
#030: Application of a 240 metric ton
dual-use tuned mass damper system (C.
Meinhardt)
#015: Experimental testing of soil-steel
railway bridge under normal train loads
(D. Beben)
#160: Specific dynamic properties of
SFRC based on waste ceramic aggregate
(J. Katzer, J. Domski)

Room Theater Red Shoe Room Bear Room

Chair
#004: A new approach to damage
detection in bridges using machine
11:30 11:50 learning (A. Neves, I. Gonzlez, J.
Leander, R. Karoumi)
#012: Investigation on uncertainty
propagation through probabilistic
11:50 12:10 shaking table test (S. Pei, P. Deng, J. van
de Lindt)
#096: Experimental vibration tests in
fatigue evaluation of a riveted truss
12:10 12:30 bridge (M. Kuawa, T. Kamiki, J. Bie)
12:30 13:50 LUNCH at PRICE CENTER (Ballroom West B)
#016: Displacements monitoring of
suspension bridge using geodetic
techniques (W. Anigacz, D. Beben, J,
Kwiatkowski)
#171: Damage detection and localization
using self-sensing cement composites (S.
Gupta, K.J. Loh)
#059: Natural vibration characteristics
and seismic response analysis of train-
bridge coupling system in high-speed
railway (Z. Liu, H. Jiang, L. Zhang, E.
Guo)
#002: Vortex-induced vibration of stay
cables, verification on the footbridge (S.
Urushadze, M. Pirner)
#086: Modal strain energy based
structural parameter identification from
limited vibration measurement (D.
Bandyopadhyay, J. S. Ali)
#104: Optimal design of active tuned
mass dampers for mitigating
translationaltorsional motion of
irregular buildings (M. Azimi, H. Pan,
M. Abdeddaim, Z. Lin)

Room
KEYNOTE: Tracy Kijewski-Correa (University of Notre Dame)
13:50 14:30 Flexible Architectures for Full-Scale Performance Evaluation of Tall Buildings: Burj Khalifa and Beyond"
Room Theater
Chair
#032: Radio-frequency identification
triggering system for structural health
14:30 14:50 monitoring of highway bridges (J. Judd,
R. Schmidt, M. Danforth, J. Branscomb,
M. Jung)
#087: The effect of traffic modeling on
damage detection procedure of bridges
14:50 15:10 (A.H. Hadjian Shahri, A.K. Ghorbani-
Tanha)
#134: Study on the vibration feature of
concrete deck slabs under fatigue wheel
15:10 15:30 loading (C. Xu, H. Masuya)
15:30 16:10 COFFEE-BREAK at PRICE CENTER (Theatre Lobby)
Room Theater
Chair
#024: Virtual laboratory for leveraging
technology for bridges and constructed
systems (E. Aktan, I. Bartoli, F. Moon,
16:10 16:30 M. Balduccini, K. Sjoblom, A. Kontsos,
M. Mazzotti, J. Braley, C. Young, S. Ye,
A. Ellenberg)
#070: Vibration-based SHM of railway
bridges using machine learning: the
16:30 16:50 influence of temperature on the health
prediction (E. Chalouhi, I. Gonzalez, C.
Gentile, R. Karoumi)
#122: Post-earthquake field
measurement-based system identification
and finite element modeling of an 18-
16:30 17:10 story masonry-infilled RC building (M.
Mohammed, H. Yu, A. Furtado, A. R.
Barbosa, B. Moaveni, H. Varum, H.
Rodrigues, N. Vila Pouca, R. Wood)
18:00 20:00 RECEPTION - ENGINEERING BEAR COURTYARD (sponsored by MTS System Corporation)
Theater
Red Shoe Room
#097: Seismic structural health
monitoring of bridges (Y. Kaya, C.
Ventura)
#001: Experimental evaluation of the
effect of geometric nonlinearities on
structural resonances (R. Brasil, A.
Wahrhafitg)
#158: Development of the UPRM hybrid
simulation facilities: Substructuring
techniques coupled numerical
simulations (M. Cortes-Delgado, L.
Gonzlez Hernndez)
Red Shoe Room
#082: Vibrations in multilayered soils: a
simplified and robust prediction equation
(A. Jamal, L. Lenti, J-F. Semblat)
#111: Liquefaction behavior of Indo-
Gangetic soil using shake table
experiments (S. Dikshit, M. Diwedi, P.
Raychowdhury, S. Ray-Chaudhuri)
#018: Analysis of records from downhole
arrays (E. afak, E. akt) capacity ratio estimation from SMRF
Chair:
Bear Room
#003: The selection of a dynamic model
of a RC chimney based on in situ
research (T. Tatara, B. Ratajewicz)
#017: Discussion of several RSID
algorithms to linear time-varying system
and system with abrupt change of joint
failure (C-H. Loh, J-D. Chen)
#162: Efficient finite elements model
updating for damage detection in bridges
(M. Saidou Sanda, O. Gauron, N.
Turcotte, C.-P. Lamarche, P. Paultre, M.
Talbot, J.-F. Laflamme)
Bear Room
#060: Dynamic shake-table tests on two
full-scale, unreinforced masonry
buildings subjected to induced seismicity
(G. Guerrini, F. Graziotti, A. Penna, G.
Magenes)
#076: Forced-vibration tests of the
Daniel-Johnson multiple-arch dam (O.
Gauron, Y. Boivin, S. Ambroise, P.
Paultre, J. Proulx, M. Roberge, S.-N.
Roth)
#108: Element-by-element demand-to-
building seismic records (M. Roohi, E.M.
Hernandez, D.V. Rosowsky)


DAY 2: Thursday July 13, 2017

Room Theater
KEYNOTE: Hoon Sohn (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
Development of a High Accuracy and High Sampling Rate Displacement Sensor for Civil Engineering Structures
9:00 9:40
Monitoring"
Chair:

Room Theater Red Shoe Room Bear Room

Chair
#165: A comparison of damage detection
methods applied to civil engineering
9:40 10:00 structures (S. Gres, P. Andersen, R.
Johansen, M. Ulriksen, L. Damkilde)
#170: Parameter estimation of nonlinear
finite element models including modeling
10:00 10:20 errors (R. Astroza, A. Alessandri, J.P.
Conte)
#019: Validation of a smoothing
algorithm for joint input-state estimation
10:20 10:40 in structural dynamics (K. Maes, K. Van
Nimmen, S. Gillijns, G. Lombaert)
10:40 11:20 COFFEE-BREAK at PRICE CENTER (Theatre Lobby)
#049: Retrofitting of damaged structure
using vibration monitoring technique (V.
Bhaiya, S. Bharti, M. Shrimali, T. Datta)
#088: Real-time structural
instrumentation as an emergency
response and business continuity tool (E.
Bishop, K. ONeill, D. Nielson, D.
Swanson, D. Gonzalez, D. Skolnik)
#042: An analytic comparison regarding
steady-state damping performance
between the twin rotor damper and a
dynamic vibration absorber (R. Bumer,
R. Terrill, U. Starossek)
#081: Effect of cross-section and
discontinuities on damping enhancement
in composites: An experimental study
(K. Chawla, S. Ray Chaudhuri)
#033: Evaluating vibration serviceability
using experimental modal testing (A.
Barrett, D. Davis, T. Murray)
#100: Damage sensitivity evaluation of
vibration parameters under ambient
excitation (J. Moughty, J. Ramon Casas)

Room Theater Red Shoe Room Bear Room

Chair
#050: Modelling of pot bearings A
preliminary study (M. lker-Kaustell, G.
11:20 11:40 Fernandez, P. Bardesi, S. Trillkott, C.
Kullberg, R. Karoumi)
#112: Dynamic 3-D testing of seismic
isolation bearing under large earthquakes
11:40 12:00 using hybrid simulation (A. Sarebanha,
A. Schellenberg, M. Schoettler, G.
Mosqueda, S. Mahin)
#136: Active vibration control of a three
degrees of freedom oscillator using two
12:00 12:20 eccentrically rotating masses (R. Terrill,
R. Bumer, U. Starossek)
12:20 13:50 LUNCH at PRICE CENTER (Ballroom West B)
#029: Time-frequency analysis of
suspension bridge response for
identification of vortex induced
vibrations (D. Cantero, O. iseth, A.
Rnnquist)
#021: An assessment of a fractional
derivative model applied to simulate the
dynamic behavior of viscoelastic
sandwich beam (W. Felippe, F. Barbosa)
#169: A displacement reconstruction
strategy for long, slender structures from
limited strain measurements and its
applications (M. Chadha, M. Todd)
#006: Vertical vibration mitigation of a
bridge cable using a non-smooth
absorber under gravity (M. Weiss, B.
Vaurigaud, A. Ture Savadkoohi, C.
Lamarque)
#027: Modal phase compensation for
application of direct velocity feedback to
active control of floor vibration under
impact excitation (K. Xue, A. Igarashi, T.
Kachi)
#118: Operational damage localization of
wind turbine blades (Y. Ou, V.
Dertimanis, E. Chatzi)

Room Theater
KEYNOTE: Costas Papadimitriou (University of Thessaly)
13:50 14:30 Information-driven Modeling of Structures using a Bayesian Framework
Chair:

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Chair
#022: Dynamic characteristics of a 55-
story building before and after retrofit
14:30 14:50 (M. elebi, T. Kashima, S. Ghahari, S.
Koyama, E. Tacirolu)
#062: Structural health monitoring of a
curved segment of an elevated railroad
14:50 15:10 (C. Huerta-Carpizo, D. Muri-Vila, G.
Aguilar, A. Snchez)
#167: Shake-table testing and
performance assessment of a partially
15:10 15:30 grouted reinforced masonry building (A.
Koutras, P. Shing)
15:30 16:10 COFFEE-BREAK at PRICE CENTER (Theatre Lobby)
#154: Dynamic modeling of train and
bridge with stepped-beam cross-sections
(H. Nassif, Y. Wang, P. Lou)
#089: Comparison of two data
acquisition techniques for modal strain
identification from sub-microstrain FBG
data (D. Anastasopoulos, K. Maes, G. De
Roeck, E. Reynders)
#054: Experimental damage
identification using SVD-based
sensitivities of truncated transfer function
(M. Rahai, A. Bakhshi, A. Esfandiari)
#038: Mitigate seismic response of three-
span bridge using MR damping system
(G. Heo, C. Kim, S. Jeon, C. Lee, S. Seo)
#007: Advanced statistical techniques
applied to raw data for structural damage
detection (A. Torres, V. Alves, A. Cury,
F. Barbosa)
#172: Hierarchical Bayesian model
updating for structural identification and
quantification of modeling uncertainties
(B. Moaveni, I. Behmanesh)

Room Theater Red Shoe Room Bear Room

Chair
#166: parametric estimation of wave
dispersion for system identification of
building structures (H. Ebrahimian, M.
16:10 16:30 Kohler, A. Massari, D. Asimaki)
#091: Soil-foundation compliance
evidence of the Chiaravalle viaduct
(M. Regni, F. Gara, F. Dezi, D. Roia, S.
16:30 16:50 Carbonari)
#056: Identification of symmetrical
structures with fabrication and damage
16:30 17:10 induced asymmetry (A. Gupta, W. Zhao,
C. Regan, P. Seiler, R. Kapania)
#114: Experimental analysis of Arroyo #066: Utilising an advanced technology
Bracea II bridge in Madrid Sevilla of people tracking in vibration
High-Speed railway line: dynamic serviceability application (A.
response of the structure and effect of Mohammed, A. Pavic)
soil properties (P. Galvn, A. Romero, E.
Moliner, M. Martnez-Rodrigo)
#146: Study of the environmental #073: Simulation of human induced
influence on the dynamic behavior of vibration of a lively footbridge (E. Lai,
adobe walls: preliminary test in M. Mulas)
laboratory specimens (R. Delgadillo, G.
Zonno, R. Boroschek, P. Loureno, R.
Aguilar)
#133: A bio-inspired framework for #103: Comparison of state-of-the-art
highly efficient structural health methods of estimating & controlling
monitoring and vibration analysis (M. floor vibrations (A. Devin, P. Fanning)
Masciotta, A. Barontini, L. Ramos, P.
Amado-Mendes, P. Loureno)

18:00 21:00 BANQUET - BIRCH AQUARIUM AT SCRIPPS



DAY 3: Friday July 14, 2017

Room Theater

KEYNOTE: Kenneth J. Loh (UC San Diego)

9:00 9:40 Multifunctional Materials for Structural Health Monitoring
Chair:

Room Theater Red Shoe Room Bear Room

Chair
#141: Fuzzy pattern recognition in
vibration-based structural health
9:40 10:00 monitoring (M. Azarbayejani)
#014: Identification of extremely close
modes with an improved stochastic
10:00 10:20 subspace algorithm (W. Wu, S. Wang, C.
Chen, G. Lai)
#084: Experimental vibration analysis of
composite bridge superstructure with
10:20 10:40 excessive deformations (M. Kuawa, J.
Bie)
10:40 11:20 COFFEE-BREAK at PRICE CENTER (Theatre Lobby)
#040: Damage detection by experimental
modal analysis in fiber-reinforced
composites (C. Geweth, F. Khosroshahi,
K. Sepahvand, C. Kerkeling, S. Marburg)
#063: Performance evaluation of hinges
in cantilever steel truss bridges by
temperature induced strain (T. Miyashita,
E. Iwasaki, M. Nagai)
#101: Strong motion structural
monitoring in practice (K. ONeill, E.
Bishop, D. Swanson, D. Aveyard, D.
Skolnik, M. Fraser)
#052: Full-scale dynamic testing of a
railway bridge using a hydraulic exciter
(A. Andersson, J. stlund, M. lker-
Kaustell, J-M. Battini, R. Karoumi)
#065: Deflection measurement,
identification and prediction of a post-
tensioned concrete continuous beam
bridge (J. Zhang, Y.D. Tian)
#057: A practical multi-cross-line model
for simulating nonlinear cyclic behavior
of reinforced concrete shear wall in super
high-rise buildings (B. Sun, Q. Gu, P.
Zhang, J. Ou)

Room Theater Red Shoe Room Bear Room

Chair
#173: Passive-only extraction of acoustic #168: System identification of a base- #061: Vibration-based support vector
impulse response by deconvolutions of isolated building using seismic data (R. machine for structural health monitoring
nonstationary excitations: application to Astroza, G. Gutierrez, C. Repenning, F. (H. Pan, M. Azimi, G. Gui, F. Yan, A.
high-speed non-contact structural Hernandez) Lin)
11:20 11:40 inspection of railroad tracks from wheel-
generated excitations (A. Liang, M.
Capriotti, S. Sternini, X. Zhu, F. Lanza di
Scalea)
#153: Assessing the performance of a #174: New Chinese SHM code for large #099: Evaluation of vibration problems
heavy haul railway viaduct through bridges monitoring and safety and USA in existing office buildings (M.
11:40 12:00 monitoring traffic loads and dynamic implications (F. Moreu, X. Li) Pavelchak)
effects (F. Busatta, P. Moyo)
#046: Design of test setup for prototype #036: Dynamic characteristics of layered
12:00 12:20 testing of base isolators (S. Bharti, M. stone pagoda system (B. Kim)
Shrimali, A. Kasar, T. Datta)
12:20 13:00 CLOSING CEREMONY

14:30 16:00 Guided tour to the NHERI@UCSD Large High Performance Outdoor Shake Table Experimental Facility

TOUR TO THE NHERI@UCSD SHAKE TABLE EXPERIMENTAL FACILITY

The Large High Performance Outdoor Shake Table
(LHPOST) was built under the George E. Brown, Jr.
Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation
(NEES) NSF program in response to the urgent need
in the U.S. for a large shake-table facility. It is the
largest outdoor shake table in the world and the
second largest overall with the largest being the E-
Defense table in Japan. The LHPOST is part of the
Englekirk Structural Engineering Center (ESEC) of
UC San Diego, located at approximately 16 km east
of the UC San Diego main campus at the Camp
Elliott Field Station. The ESEC is an outdoor large-scale structural laboratory complex that comprises
(i) the LHPOST, (ii) a blast and impact simulator (BS), built through the Technical Support Working
Group of the U.S. Federal Government and used to replicate the effects of blasts on structural
components, (iii) two soil pits separated by a strong reaction wall with one built through funding from
the California Department of Transportation and the second by the Port of Los Angeles Authority, and
(iv) a full-scale rail test bed built through funding from the Federal Railroad Administration. The Natural
Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI) Experimental Facility at the University of
California, San Diego, a National Science Foundation (NSF) sponsored facility, consists of the LHPOST
to support research in structural and geotechnical earthquake engineering.

Large/full-scale specimens tested at the NHERI@UCSD facility.