The objective of this MCEER educational project is to develop Java-based Virtual Laboratories for Earthquake Engineering (VLEE) as a Tri-Center collaborative effort to produce online resources for earthquake engineering education. This task is a part of MCEER’s Center-wide effort to develop educational modules, in which various Java-Powered Virtual Laboratories (VLs) have been developed to prov...

This paper briefly reviews the development of earthquake resistant design of buildings. The state-of-the-art of seismic design is discussed from the viewpoint of the performance criteria of buildings. These are (a) serviceability from frequent minor-intensity earthquake motions, (b) repairability from an infrequent but major-intensity earthquake motion, and (c) life safety from the maximum poss...

• allow teleparticipation by remote users in tests performed in any of the three laboratories, • provide open access to consistently formatted data from tests in the three laboratories, • enable synchronous distributed tests between the three laboratories, maximising the size of structure that can be tested, and • allow the laboratories to link into the US NEES network, giving access to advance...

MSC is announcing a new business offering based upon a breakthrough technology. MSC has developed a means by which design engineers or occasional CAE software users can reliably perform complex engineering analysis with the same resultant quality as do the dedicated analysis experts. This breakthrough technology captures the expert’s engineering knowledge and specific process solution methodolo...

The RoboCup Rescue project is based on the situations that occurred during the Great Hanshin Earthquake in 1995. Various types of disasters occurred after the Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, and the experiences from managing such disasters has shown that evacuation with prompt and appropriate information at the initial period of the disaster is as important as the rescue operations during the disaste...

MSC is announcing a new business offering based upon a breakthrough technology. MSC has developed a means by which design engineers or occasional CAE software users can reliably perform complex engineering analysis with the same resultant quality as do the dedicated analysis experts. This breakthrough technology captures the expert’s engineering knowledge and specific process solution methodolo...