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Stay Up to Date Congratulations to Bilal Alhawamdeh sucessfully defensed his dissitation in April 2020. He graduated with a Doctor of Philosophy in Summer 2021. Summer of 2017, a local distributed RTHS was successfully conducted by Mohamed Ismail Ahmed who graduated with Master in 2017. In Spring 2017, Bilal Mohammed sucessfully conducted several RTHS with online model updating. He graduated with a Master of Science in 2017 as well. |
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NEESsoft Collapse | RTHS test of NEESsoft Project | ||||||||||||||||||||||
As part of the NEESsoft project, a collapse test of the 4-story soft first story wood frame building was conducted using the outdoor shake table at the NEES facility of the University of Claifornia, San Diego, on August 17, 2013
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On October 28, an OpenLoop RTHS test of the NEESsoft project was conducted at the University of Buffalo | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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WMU is one of the five collaborating universities in the NEESsoft project. The NEESsoft collapse was reported on by CBS, FOX, and ABC news. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Western Michigan University ---- Department of Civil and Construction Engineering Laboratory of Earthquake and Structural Simulation ---- Last Updated: 09-25-2021 |