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• Multi-axial Real-time Hybrid Simulation Framework for Testing Nonlinear Structural Systems with Multiple Boundary Interfaces 

  Amirali Najafi; Billie F. Spencer, Jr. (Newmark Structural Engineering Laboratory. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 2021-09-17)

  Hybrid simulation is a widely accepted laboratory testing approach that partitions a proposed structure into numerical and physical substructures, for a space- and cost-effective testing method. Structural elements that ...

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• Structural Health Monitoring of Inland Navigation Infrastructure 

  Eick, Brian A.; Spencer, Billie F. (Newmark Structural Engineering Laboratory. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 2021-08-24)

  The inland navigation system in the U.S. is a civil infrastructure network that relies on the performance of a vast array of infrastructure assets scattered across the nation to function successfully. The system is critical ...

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• Development and Implementation of a Multi-axial Real-time Hybrid Simulation Framework 

  Fermandois, G.A.; Spencer, B.F., Jr. (Newmark Structural Engineering Laboratory. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 2018-09)

  Real-time hybrid simulation is an efficient and cost-effective experimental testing technique for performance evaluation of structural systems subjected to earthquake loading with rate-of loading behavior. To assess the ...

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• Modification of ground motions for use in Central North America: Southern Illinois surface ground motions for structural analysis 

  Kozak, Derek L.; Luo, Jie; Olson, Scott M.; LaFave, James M.; Fahnestock, Larry A. (Newmark Structural Engineering Laboratory. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 2017-09)

  The lack of ground motion time history records with a 1000-year return period hazard for Central North America (CNA) often requires earthquake engineering researchers in the area to develop ground motions of their own. ...

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• Structural and geotechnical observations after the April 25, 2015 M7.8 Gorkha, Nepal earthquake and its aftershocks 

  Fahnestock, Larry A.; Hashash, Youssef M.A. (Newmark Structural Engineering Laboratory. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 2016-12)

  The April 25, 2015 Gorkha (Nepal) Earthquake (M7.8) and its related aftershocks had a devastating impact on Nepal. The earthquake sequence resulted in nearly 9,000 deaths, tens of thousands of injuries, and left hundreds ...

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