Welcome to nees@UCLA

What is nees@UCLA?

The US National Science Foundation (NSF) has established the George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) as a national, networked collaboratory of geographically-distributed, shared-use experimental research equipment sites. nees@UCLA is an equipment site specializing in field testing and monitoring of structural performance.

As a part of this program, the UCLA NEES program has developed a state-of-the-art mobile field laboratory to enable detailed, seismic performance characterization of full-scale structural and foundation systems. Through use of this equipment, it is possible to develop an inventory of field test results that provide significant new insights into the nonlinear response of full-scale structural systems, as well as soil structure interaction effects.

Recent Events

Wind Turbine

nees@UCLA recently concluded experiments on a wind turbine in Mojave, CA. A sensor array is currently deployed in order to catch a possible earthquake.

USAcross

nees@UCLA recently concluded experiments in Parkfield, CA for USAcross. Click here to see the shaker in action.

PCI-DSDM

nees@UCLA has finished participating in the PCI-DSDM experiments at the Englekirk Center at UCSD.

What's New?

nees@UCLA recently completed forced vibration and ambient testing of a wind turbine in Mojave, CA.

nees@UCLA partcipated in the The Great Southern California Shake Out on November 13 with a lab demonstration. Also, click KCET to view a special report featuring Prof. John Wallace and Prof. Jonathan Stewart.

nees@UCLA recenty concluded the initial stage of the USAcross project in Parkfield, CA.

nees@UCLA concluded participation in the testing of a precast concrete building at the Englekirk Center at UCSD.

nees@UCLA participated in the GEESD conference in Sacramento by doing a demo with the portable eccentric mass shaker and as a conference exhibitor.

nees@UCLA did an experimental modal analysis on the LAX Theme Building.

nees@UCLA equipment was used by a freshman engineering lab class. Click here for more information.

nees@UCLA was represented at the 7th International Symposium on Field Measurements in Geomechanics. Robert Nigbor presented two NEES-related papers along with exhibiting a booth.

nees@UCLA was represented at the 6th International Worskshop on Structural Health Monitoring at Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA.

nees@UCLA has received a new portable eccentric mass shaker to its profile of shakers. More information can be found here.

What's Inside

Important Documents