Practitioner and Student Interaction 2003

• Franklin Moon & Tianyi Yi     ST-11 Large-Scale Tests of Low-Rise Building System

Funding was provided for travel to the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Construction Engineering Research Laboratory, Champaign, IL to participate in a dynamic test on a half-scale model of the test structure that Frank and Tianyi are currently quasi-static testing on at Georgia Institute of Technology. One objective of the two parallel tests is to verify the effects of different test methods on the performance of tested URM buildings. Comparing the test results of the two experiments will fulfill this objective. One critical result of the tests is the crack patterns and the failure mechanisms of the tested specimens, which can only be obtained by visually examining the specimen during the tests. Therefore, the in-site participation of the half-scale shaking table test is very helpful to my research. The funds will enable me to fulfill this research objective.

• Vasilieos Drosos     HD-1 Synthetic Earthquake Hazard

Funding was provided for participation in two meetings that aided the HD-1 Synthetic Earthquake Hazard research project. The first meeting was with Dr. Tom Holzer from the U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA. Discussed was the recorded ground motions within the Upper Mississippi Embayment and how research results could be mapped. The second meeting was with Dr. Walter Silva from the Pacific Engineering and Analysis, Inc., El Cerrito, CA. Issues concerning the implementation of probabilistic hazard analysis and geotechnical data for the central U.S. were discussed. Both meetings were vital to the students research. The information and data obtained will be used in the HD-1 research to generate synthetic ground motions for NMSZ.