2011 BLIND ANALYSIS CONTEST BY CUEE
| A 5-story steel moment frame building will be
subjected to extreme earthquake loading at E-Defense, the world’s
largest three-dimensional shaking table in Miki City. The tests are
being lead by Prof. Keri Ryan, Univ. of Nevada, Reno, and supported
jointly by the NEES TIPS project (NSF Grant No. CMMI 1113275), NEES
Nonstructural (NSF Grant No. CMMI 0721399), and NIED in Japan, The
building was used for tests with four different types of dampers and
with no dampers in 2008 (Leader: Prof. Kazuhiko Kasai, Tokyo Institute
of Technology). The seismic performance of the building in the conventional configuration and with EPS triple friction pendulum isolators will be compared. Nonstructural components including interior walls, ceilings, piping system, and concrete cladding panels will be installed at the building’s 4th and 5th floors. The tests will take place during a 3 week time frame in August 2011, with 4 days of shaking anticipated. The Center for Urban Earthquake Engineering (CUEE) at the Tokyo Institute of Technology is pleased to announce the Blind Analysis Contest for this full-scale 5-story steel building experiment. Interested participants are expected to predict the responses before and after the test, and the closest predictions to the test results will receive awards. Because the actual loading will be determined during the course of the testing, the contest has two parts: pre-test analysis based on anticipated earthquake loading, and post-test analysis using the actual loading. The building analytical model for the post-test analysis must be identical with that for the pre-test analysis. The contest is divided into two categories: prediction of response of (1) isolated and (2) conventional configurations. Thus, two winners, one from each category, will be recognized. All participants, however, are required to submit predictions for both configurations to be considered for an award. While names and affiliations of all participating teams will be identified, results will be presented anonymously except for those of the winners. Winners will be invited to and honored at the 9th International Conference on Urban Earthquake Engineering, March 2012, held by CUEE in Tokyo, Japan. The winners’ travel expenses, accommodations, and registration will be covered by the contest sponsor. |
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Important Dates (deadlines are all 9:00am JST; JST is GMT +9:00)
| May 31, 2011 | ： | Distribution of schedule of the contest, specification of structural components and basic material properties | |
| July 15, 2011 | ： | Deadline of registration | |
| August 15, 2011 | ： | Submission of pre-test analysis results by participants | |
| August 16-19, 2011 |
： | Shaking-table testing at E-Defense | |
| September 19, 2011 |
： | Distribution of acceleration for post-test analysis | |
| October 31, 2011 |
： | Submission of post-test analysis results by participants | |
| December 31, 2011 |
： | Announcement of the winners |
CUEE Blind Analysis Contest Committee
| Chairman | ： | Kazuhiko Kasai (Tokyo Institute of Technology) |
| Planning Working Group |
： | Makoto Ohsaki (Leader, Hiroshima University),
Tsuyoshi Hikino (Nippon
Steel Engineering Co., Ltd.), Keri Ryan (University
of Nevada, Reno), Eiji Sato (E-Defense), Takeshi Furuhasi (Nippon
University), Shojiro Motoyui (Tokyo Institute of Technology) |
| Operations Working Group |
： | Troy Morgan (Leader, Tokyo Institute of
Technology), Taichiro Okazaki (Hokkaido University), Gilberto Mosqueda
(State University of New York, Buffalo), Kazuhiro Matsuda (Tokyo
Institute of Technology), Pu Wuchuan (Tokyo Institute of Technology),
Shoichi Kishiki (Tokyo Institute of Technology) |
Contest Description and Method of Judgment
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Note: Updated
6/7/2011
