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Visit to UC Berkeley & 3AESE Student Session
Yamada Lab. Yu Jiao
A small group of young researchers (3 PhD students, 1 post doctor and 3 assistant professors from different labs) from CUEE went on a business trip to San Francisco and San Diego last Oct. to attend the 2009 PEER annul meeting, the 3AESE conference and the Loma Prieta Earthquake Commemorative Symposium. The visit to UC Berkeley and UC San Diego was also in the schedule.
We arrived in San Francisco together with a strong storm on Oct 13, 2009. In the very afternoon, thanks to Assis. Prof. Troy Morgan, the group went to visit the experiment facilities of UC Berkeley, which is known as one of the top Engineering schools in the world. We visited both the off-campus structural engineering lab as well as the lab on the main campus of Berkeley. It was raining hard but we were all very excited to see those facilities such as the shaking table and so on. Another impressive point we found there is the setup of a full-scale K shape tube brace (in a frame) test. Unfortunately the test would be several days later so we were not able to witness the experiment.
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| This machine can apply huge compression to the specimens |
Shaking table | Full-scale brace test |
The Student Session of 3AESE was held on Oct. 14. About 30 students or young researchers from 3 countries (USA, Japan and China) attended this session. It was very busy day for everyone of us, but it totally worth it. We had 2 presentation sessions in the morning and 1 in the afternoon. 3 PhD students from CUEE (Tomohiro Sasaki, Ryota Matsui, Yu Jiao) gave presentations, one in each session.
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| The CUEE students giving presentations | ||
The lunch was at Degenkolb Engineer’s Oakland office together with a presentation on the “Analysis and Restofit of Caltrans District 4 Headquarters Building in Oakland, Ca.”, which is about the seismic upgrade of a 15-story steel moment frame building. And then we went to visit this still-under-strengening building. After that, we went on the tour of the Diocese of Oakland’s Cathedral of Christ the Light lead by a very famous design group Skidmore Owings and Merril (SOM). The original cathedral was distoried in the severe earthquake so the new one is a morden base isolated building. The building was very beautiful and impressive, but what interested us most is the architectural and structural design of this building, about which we were given a presentation by the engineers from SOM. The dinner was held together with the poster session in a restaurant. 8 students had their posters presented during that 2~3 hours. We got relaxed and talked to other students from different countries about our research interests, exchanged ideas, which was a best ending of the wonderful day.
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| Lunch with presentation | Presentation by SOM Engineer | |
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| Beam-to-column Connection in the Moment-frame | The whole group in front of the Cathedral | Poster session |
