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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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RTHS With Online Model Updating
  
University of Alabama Test
  

The video below shows one of the RTHS performed at the LESS @ WMU.

  

 

On March 23, Dr. Shao traveled to University of Alabama to preform real-time hybrid simulation of a damped and undamped wood shear wall.  This video shows one of the tests preformed by the NEESsoft team. 

 

  
 
   
 
           
    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

 

   On October 28, an OpenLoop RTHS test of the NEESsoft project was conducted at the University of Buffalo  
      

 

  

 

  
           
    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