TY - GEN
T1 - Advances and innovations at the multi-axial full-scale substructure testing and simulation (MUST-SIM) facility
AU - Spencer, B. F.
AU - Kuchma, Daniel A.
AU - Elnashai, Amr S.
AU - Chang, Chia Ming
N1 - Funding Information:
5wUJ.GkFTZFcFJS a The authors would like to express appreciation for to all of the researchers involved in the various research projects that have been conducted experiments at the MUST-SIM facility, as well as to acknowledge the support of MUST-SIM facility from National Science Foundation under award CMMI-0927178.
Funding Information:
Motivated by the impact of combined actions on columns due to complex system-level responses, a four-span curved bridge structure was developed and experimentally evaluated at the MUST-SIM facility. This test conducted at the MUST-SIM facility was a part of project, “Seismic Simulation and Design of Bridge Columns under Combined Actions and Implications on System Response”, funded by National Science Foundation under Award Number CMMI-0530737. The four-span curved bridge was tested through hybrid simulation and sought to investigate the detailed behavior of combined actions of bridge columns, while the curved bridge is subjected to bi-directional horizontal ground motions.
Funding Information:
The first application example in this paper is a collaborative project within NEESgrid that conducted a geographically distributed experimental simulation for a bridge, with the interaction among the soil, structure, and foundation considered. This project was named “Multi-site Soil-structure-foundation Interaction Test”, sponsored by a research grant from National Science Foundation under Award Numbers 0406636, 0406812, and 0407555. This hybrid test was developed to provide a realistic test bed application with which to verify and extend all components of the NEESgrid, as well as components of the sites taking part in the distributed simulation. The distributed simulation was carried out by collaborating partners at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), and Lehigh University (Lehigh). More details are documented in Spencer et al. (2010). A successful hybrid simulation was performed, and the outcome verified the powerfulness and effectiveness of hybrid testing using UI-SimCor.
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PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - The Multi-axial Full-scale Substructure Testing and Simulation (MUST-SIM) facility at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is part of the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES). In this facility, full-scale structures or structural subassemblages can be subjected to complex loading and deformation states at multiple connection points on the test specimen, including the connection between the test structure and its foundation. The MUST-SIM facility has the following unique features: (i) 6-DOF load and position control capabilities at multiple connection points, (ii) multiple dense arrays of non-contact measurement devices, and (iii) advanced nonlinear analysis, visualization, and data archiving and manipulation capabilities to enable integrated data exchange and manipulation, hybrid simulation (UI-SimCor), remote control and observation, and multi-site collaboration within a networked environment. This paper will present several successful implementations that illustrate recent advances and innovations at the MUST-SIM facility.
AB - The Multi-axial Full-scale Substructure Testing and Simulation (MUST-SIM) facility at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is part of the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES). In this facility, full-scale structures or structural subassemblages can be subjected to complex loading and deformation states at multiple connection points on the test specimen, including the connection between the test structure and its foundation. The MUST-SIM facility has the following unique features: (i) 6-DOF load and position control capabilities at multiple connection points, (ii) multiple dense arrays of non-contact measurement devices, and (iii) advanced nonlinear analysis, visualization, and data archiving and manipulation capabilities to enable integrated data exchange and manipulation, hybrid simulation (UI-SimCor), remote control and observation, and multi-site collaboration within a networked environment. This paper will present several successful implementations that illustrate recent advances and innovations at the MUST-SIM facility.
KW - Advanced Instrumentation
KW - Hybrid Simulation
KW - LBCB
KW - MUST-SIM Facility
KW - UI-SimCor
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85057602546
T3 - International Conference on Advances in Experimental Structural Engineering
BT - 5th International Conference on Advances in Experimental Structural Engineering, AESE 2013
PB - EUCENTRE
T2 - 5th International Conference on Advances in Experimental Structural Engineering, AESE 2013
Y2 - 8 November 2013 through 9 November 2013
ER -