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• Full-scale Laboratory Testing of Embedded Miter Gate Anchorages to Inform Fatigue Life Estimates 

  Eick, Brian A.; Levine, Nathaniel M.; Smith, Matthew D.; Spencer, Billie F., Jr. (Newmark Structural Engineering Laboratory. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., 2021-10-19)

  On the inland navigation system, miter gates are common structures that are supported by steel frames known as anchorages embedded in the concrete lock chamber wall. These anchorages primarily resist the overturning moment ...

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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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