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under Grant no.: CMMI-0830331

Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation

The Soil's Eye View of Soil-Structure Interaction in a Dense Urban Environment.

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Recent Journal Articles:
  • Graduate Students Mentoring Undergraduate Researchers on a Large-scale Experimental Research Project: A Case Study - Gregg L. Fiegel, H. Ben Mason, and Nicholas W. Trombetta [read more]

  • Mechanisms of Seismically Induced Settlement of Buildings with Shallow Foundations on Liquefiable Soil - Shideh Dashti, Jonathan D. Bray, Juan M. Pestana, Michael Riemer, and Dan Wilson [read more]

  • Centrifuge Testing to Evaluate and Mitigate Liquefaction-Induced Building Settlement Mechanisms - Shideh Dashti, Jonathan D. Bray, Juan M. Pestana, Michael Riemer, and Dan Wilson [read more]

Description: Slideshow video showcasing the entire process in constructing and running our tests for the City Block Test-4 project at the NEES @ UC Davis Center for Geotechnical Modeling. (The original background music in the video was copyrighted, so there is an ongoing classical song instead) [view slide show]


2011 EERI Annual Meeting
Undergraduate Seismic Design Competition

February 11, 2011

Nicholas Trombetta makes a presentation and does a demonstration on the topic of Soil-Struction Interaction

[view presentation]


For more information about this design competition, visit: http://slc.eeri.org/


Congratulations to Jeannie Tran for her award winning photo at the 2011 Quake Summit Media Competition
[view all past project award winners]


For more information about this media competition, visit: http://quakesummit.org


3D models and animation of test structures by Jonathan Lund [view all]



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