Student Field Trip this Friday
February 22, 2011
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Excelling 10th grade students from William Allen High School will be taking a field trip to our RTMD facility Friday morning, February 25th to learn more about how earthquakes affect buildings and how researchers perform experiments to validate damage prevention techniques to protect buildings from seismic activity. They will take a lab tour, learn lessons […]
Testing on passive damping systems
February 18, 2011
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The vision for this research is a validated probabilistic, performance-based seismic design procedure for buildings with passive damping systems. Tests at the Lehigh NEES equipment site will characterize the dampers; analytical models for the dampers will be calibrated and validated.
