The Annual Meeting Media Competition was developed to visually highlight the innovative research, facilities and education activities that characterize the George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES). Congratulations to this year's winners! Images and photos of all submissions are shown below.
Contributors to the 2010 Media Competition participated in two categories: Photo and Video. Photo submissions feature an image based on its subject interest, photographic, artistic, and compositional quality. Video submissions clearly and succinctly convey a research outcome, or highlight an activity or facility. Topics for the categories included:
Photo:
Specimen Construction - Researchers and staff constructing and instrumenting research specimens
Testing - A completed specimen pictured during the testing sequence
Failure - Structural, geotechnical, or system failure as a consequence of testing
Photo Favorite - A favorite photo of the contributor's choosing
Video:
Outreach - The video has potential to help the general public or the media understand an experiment, the function of a site, or the outcomes of the NEES program
Educational - The video has potential for use in K-12 or higher education to illustrate a concept
Technology transfer - The video could be used to support technology transfer to the practicing community
Thank you Media Competition Review Committee for your time and consideration in the difficult task of choosing winners from such fine submissions:
Thalia Anagnos, San Jose State University
Robert Bain, San Jose State University
Charlie Kircher, Kircher & Associates
Marshall Lew, MACTEC Engineering
Barbara Cooper, NEEScomm
Allegra East, NEEScomm
Jared West, NEEScomm
Darryl Wong, CUREE
Click on the links below the photos to download and view the photo at its original dimensions. Click on the videos to play on the NEEShub. The Photos and Videos may also be viewed from the Multimedia section under Explore.
"Final Lift of Soil on Mode"; Sand is Being Pluviated to Achieve Relative Density of 80%. (Source: Stefanie Gille, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo)
"Test on a 1/20th Scale Bridge Pier Subjected to Shear"
(Source: Aditya Bhagath, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Outreach:
"World's Largest Earthquake Shake Test in Japan: NEESWood Capstone Project Testing New Design Methods for Multi-Story, Wood-Frame Buildings During 7.5 Magnitude Earthquake" (Source: Shelby Lentz, Simpson Strong-Tie Company)
Testing:
"Collapse Simulation of Multi-Story Buildings through Hybrid Testing"
(Source: Laura Eads & Eduardo Miranda, Stanford University)
"For studying the concept of segmental displacement control design for isolated bridges" (Source Kenneth Ogorzalek, University of California, Berkeley)
"Dr. Ellen M. Rathje, explains earthquake phenomenon of liquefaction" (Source: Robert Kent, University of Texas, Austin)
"High-speed video of construction of full 3-D computer model for large-scale centrifuge testing" (Source: Jonathan Lund, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo)
"High-speed time-lapse video of construction, retrofitting and process of centrifuge test." Centrifuge arm measures 9 meters long and test spins up to 55 times gravity. (Source: Jonathan Lund, California Polytechnic
State University, San Luis Obispo)
"NEESR Projects" (Source: Goran Josipovic, University of Buffalo, SUNY)
Outreach
"Construction sequence of entire test setup, fabrication, testing and analyzing of full-scale, two-story steel braced frame specimen" (Source: Jiun-Wei Lai, University of California, Berkeley)
"3-D interactive photo of test setup of two-story steel moment frame retrofitted with high performance reinforced concrete panels using state of the art hybrid testing" (Source: Dimitrios Lignos, University of California, Berkeley)
"Time lapse video during six-week construction of three-story infilled RC frame" (Source: Andreas Stavridis, University of California, San Diego)
"Failure of three-story infilled RC frame subjected to base motion equivalent to the one recorded in El Centro in 1940 increased 2.5 times." Failure concentrated in first story and included dominant shear cracks in the middle and east (right) column due to a dominant shear crack and the gradual collapse of the bottom story, east-bay infill" (Source: Andreas Stavridis,
University of California, San Diego)
"Catastrophic shear failure of RC column and subsequent failure of masonry wall which occurred during shake table tests of three-story, two-bay, non-ductile, infilled RC frame" and is indicative of potential failures of existing non-ductile RC buildings" (Source: Andreas Stavridis, University of California, San Diego)
"Earthquake Engineering Workshop for K-12 students" (Source: Laura Eads, Stanford University)
Testing
"Hybrid simulation of four-story self centering damage-free braced frame
subjected to the 1995 Kobe, Japan Takatori Earthquake record" (Source: Gary Novak, Lehigh University)
"Real-time hybrid simulation of nine-story building with semi-active controlled MR Dampers
subjected to 1994 Northridge, CA Canoga Park earthquake record" (Source: Gary Novak, Lehigh University)
