Creating collaborative pathways to conduct large-scale shake table projects
Dr. Barbara Simpson

About the Webinar

Large-scale shake table experiments can holistically represent the dynamic and nonlinear response of complex civil systems. Beyond the generation of unique datasets, these experiments are opportunities to demonstrate proof-of-concepts, encouraging technology transfer from research-to-industry. This presentation describes the collaborative pathway needed to conduct large-scale shake table projects. Collaborative research will be described in terms of two NSF-sponsored shake table experiments, namely [i] industry-academic partnerships from testing a six-story mass timber building at the NHERI-EF LHPOST6 at UCSD, and [ii] domestic-international collaborations from testing a four-story steel spine system at E-Defense in Japan.

Presenter

Dr. Barbara Simpson Assistant Professor Standford University

Barbara Simpson is currently an Assistant Professor at Stanford University. She received her Ph.D. from UC Berkeley and her Bachelor of Science from the University of Kansas. Dr. Simpson uses advanced computational and experimental methods to characterize structural response. Her aim is to develop innovative structural systems that improve building performance and reduce the effects of natural hazards on the built environment.

Research areas include resilient and sustainable design and retrofit of building structures and offshore renewable energy systems, performance-based earthquake engineering, and next-generation computational modeling. One of her current pursuits is the development of real-time hybrid simulation frameworks for fluid-structure interaction problems.