UCLA NEES visit July 2004

The UCLA NEES site has a great deal of information about the science and goals of this experiment; please go to their site for more details.

Ben did a better job of photographing the building and surroundings than I did; his pictures are at this link.

My EBD report can be found on this page.

This is the truck purchased for the experiment - 90k worth of satellite gear. T1 speeds anywhere in the world, supercool.

The building has been abandoned since 1994, and it shows. Breakins and homeless are continued problems.

Instrumentation, data loggers, laptops, GPS repeaters, awesome.

Q330 data loggers. 8MB of memory, low-power 24bit sigma-delta ADCs. Quanterra makes them.

802.11b wireless card, battery, etc.

This is the data concentrator on the roof - Solaris machine, network interfaces, power inverter, all in a nice case. Runs the Antelope ring buffer code.

This is one of two orbital shakers on each end of the roof. They rotate in sync, and produce _quite_ the effect on the building. The baskets will get filled with steel bricks, at which time the building will really get rocking.
No local power, so there's a rooftop generator. 72kW.
Linear shaker, not yet used.

View of highway 101.

Satellite gear.
Head computer guy Steve with his toys. This is inside the truck.
Steel bricks and graffiti.

Intern and ISI colleague who came by to help out.

Navigation links

Back to main NEESGrid at Argonne page

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Support

This work was supported primarily by the George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) Program of the National Science Foundation under Award Number CMS-0117853.

This is the truck purchased for the experiment - 90k worth of satellite gear. T1 speeds anywhere in the world, supercool.
The building has been abandoned since 1994, and it shows. Breakins and homeless are continued problems.
Instrumentation, data loggers, laptops, GPS repeaters, awesome.
		Q330 data loggers. 8MB of memory, low-power 24bit sigma-delta ADCs. Quanterra makes them.
802.11b wireless card, battery, etc.		This is the data concentrator on the roof - Solaris machine, network interfaces, power inverter, all in a nice case. Runs the Antelope ring buffer code.

This is one of two orbital shakers on each end of the roof. They rotate in sync, and produce _quite_ the effect on the building. The baskets will get filled with steel bricks, at which time the building will really get rocking.	No local power, so there's a rooftop generator. 72kW.	Linear shaker, not yet used.
		View of highway 101.
Satellite gear.	Head computer guy Steve with his toys. This is inside the truck.	Steel bricks and graffiti.
Intern and ISI colleague who came by to help out.