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• J. E. Luco, O. Ozcelik, and J. P. Conte, "Acceleration Tracking Performance of the UCSD-NEES Shake Table," Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE, Volume 136, Issue 5, pp., 481-490, May 2010.
• O. Ozcelik, J. E. Luco, and J. P. Conte, "Identification of the Mechanical Subsystem of the NEES-UCSD Shake Table by a Least-Squares Approach," Journal of Engineering Mechanics, ASCE, Vol. 134, No. 1, 23-34, January 2008.
• O. Ozcelik, J. E. Luco, J. P. Conte, T. L. Trombetti and J. I. Restrepo, "Experimental Characterization, Modeling and Identification of the NEES-UCSD Shake Table Mechanical System," Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, 37: 243-264, 2008.
• J. P. Conte, J. I. Restrepo and J. E. Luco, "NEES-UCSD Shake Table and Testing Activities at the University of California, San Diego," Proc. First European Conference on Earthquake Engineering and Seismology, Geneva, Switzerland, 3-8 September, 2006.
• O. Ozcelik, J. P. Conte and J. E. Luco, "Virtual Model of the UCSD-NEES High Performance Outdoor Shake Table," Proc. Fourth World Conf. on Structural Control and Monitoring, San Diego, California, July 11-13, 2006.
• Restrepo, J. I., Conte, J. P., Luco, J. E., Seible, F., Van Den Einde, L. (2005), "The NEES@UCSD Large High Performance Outdoor Shake Table Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics (GSP 133)", Proc. Geo-Frontiers 2005, Sessions of the Geo-Frontiers 2005 Congress, R. W. Boulanger, M. Dewoolker, N. Gucunski, C. H. Juang, M. E. Kalinski, S. L. Kramer, M. Manzari, J. Pauschke, Eds, January 24–26, Austin, Texas, USA.
• L. Van Den Einde, J. I. Restrepo, J. P. Conte, J. E. Luco, F. Seible, A. Filiatrault, A. Clark, A. Johnson, M. Gram, D. Kusner, and B. Thoen, "Development of the George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) Large High Performance Outdoor Shake Table at the University of California, San Diego," Proc. 13-th World Conf. on Earthquake Engineering, Vancouver, B. C., Canada August 1-6, 2004, Paper No. 3281.
• J. P. Conte, J. E. Luco, J. I. Restrepo, F. Seible, and L. Van Den Einde, "UCSD-NEES Large High Performance Outdoor Shake Table," Proc. 17-th ASCE Engineering Mechanics Conference, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, June 13-16, 2004.

Project Publications

Collapse Vulnerability and Seismic Design of Metal Building Systems (2010)

• Uang, C.M., Smith, M.D., and Shoemaker, W.L., "Earthquake Simulator Testing of Metal Building Systems," Structures Congress 2011, D. Ames, T.L. Droessler, M. Hoit, Eds. ASCE. Las Vegas, Nevada, April 14-16, 2011, pp. 693-704.
• Smith, M.D. and Uang, C.M., "Seismic Force Distribution for Metal Building Systems with Mezzanines," Structures Congress 2011, D. Ames, T.L. Droessler, M. Hoit, Eds. ASCE. Las Vegas, Nevada, April 14-16, 2011, pp. 705-715.

Seismic Study of Wind Turbines for Renewable Energy (2010)

• Prowell, I., Elgamal, A., Uang, C.-M., Luco, J.E., and Conte, J. (2011). "Recent Advances in Understanding the Seismic Response of Wind Turbines." NSF CMMI Research and Innovations Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
• Prowell, I., Schmidt, T., Elgamal, A., Uang, C.-M., Romanowitz, and H., Duggan,J.E. (2011). "Measuring Global Response of a Wind Turbine to Earthquake Shaking Assisted by Point Tracking Videogrammetry." 52nd AIAA/ASME/ASCE/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics and Materials Conference, Denver, Colorado, USA.
• Prowell, I., Elgamal, A., and Jonkman, J., (2010). "Seismic Response of a 5-MW Wind Turbine: The Shakeout Scenario." 9th US National and 10th Canadian Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
• Prowell, I., Elgamal, A., and, Lu, J. (2010). "Modeling the Influence of Soil Structure Interaction on the Seismic Response of a 5 MW Wind Turbine." 5th International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics in Honor of Professor I.M. Idriss, San Diego, California, USA.
• Prowell, I., Elgamal, A., Romanowitz, H., Duggan, J.E., and Jonkman, J. (2010). "Earthquake Response Modeling for a Parked and Operating Megawatt-Scale Wind Turbine," National Renewable Energy Laboratory, NREL/TP-5000-48242, Golden,Colorado, USA.
• Prowell, I., Elgamal, A., Jonkman, J., and Uang, C.M. (2010). "Estimation of Seismic Load Demand for a Wind Turbine in the Time Domain," National Renewable Energy Laboratory, NREL/CP-500-47536, Golden, Colorado, USA.
• Prowell, I. and Veers, P. (2009). "Assessment of Wind Turbine Seismic Risk: Existing Literature and Simple Study of Tower Moment Demand," Sandia National Laboratories, SAND2009-1100, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.
• Prowell, I., Elgamal, A., Lu, J., and, Luco, J. E. (2009). "Modal properties of a modern wind turbine including SSI." 17th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Alexandria, Egypt.
• Ahmed Elgamal, Ian Prowell, Joel Conte, J. Enrique Luco, Chia-Ming Uang, and Ziyad Duron (2009). "NEESR-II: A Seismic Study of Wind Turbines for Renewable Energy," Proceedings of the NSF Engineering Research and Innovation Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, July.
• Prowell, I., Veletsos, M., and Elgamal, A., (2008). "Full Scale Testing for Investigation of Wind Turbine Seismic Response." Proceedings of the 7th World Wind Energy Conference, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
• Prowell, I. and Elgamal, A., (2008). "Highway Bridge Testbed: Internet Accessibility of Data and Video in Real Time." Proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering Education, Pécs, Hungary.

Seismic Performance Assessment and Retrofit of Non-Ductile RC Frames with Infill Walls (2008)

• Koutromanos, I. and Shing, P.B., "A Cohesive Crack Model to Simulate Cyclic Response of Concrete and Masonry Structures," ACI Structural Journal (under review).
• Stavridis, A., Koutromanos, I., and Shing, P.B., "Shake-Table Tests of a Three-Story Reinforced Concrete Frame with Masonry Infill Walls," Journal of Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics (under review).
• Koutromanos, I., Stavridis, A., and Shing, P.B., "Analysis of the Cyclic Behavior of Masonry-Infilled RC Frames using the Finite Element Method," Proceedings, 9th US National and 10th Canadian Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Toronto, Canada, July, 2010.
• Stavridis, A., Koutromanos, I., and Shing, P.B., "Shake-Table Tests of a Three-Story Masonry-Infilled RC Frame," Proceedings, 9th US National and 10th Canadian Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Toronto, Canada, July, 2010.
• Stavridis, A. and Shing, P.B., "Finite-Element Modeling of Nonlinear Behavior of Masonry-Infilled RC Frames." Journal of Structural Engineering, Vol. 136, No. 3, 2010. pp. 285–296. March 2010.
• Shing, P.B., Koutromanos, I., and Stavridis, A., "Shake-Table Tests and Numerical Study of the Seismic Performance of Non-Ductile RC Frames with Masonry Infill Walls," Proceedings, 7th International Conference on Urban Earthquake Engineering & 5th International Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, March, 2010.
• Moaveni, B., Stavridis, A., and Shing, P.B., "System Identification of a Three-Story Infilled RC Frame Tested on the UCSD-NEES Shake Table," Proceedings, IMAC XXVIII: Conference & Exposition on Structural Dynamics, Jacksonville, Florida, February 2010.
• Moaveni, B., Lombaert, G., Stavridis, A., Conte, J.P., and Shing, P.B., "Damage Identification of a Three-Story Infilled RC Frame Tested on the UCSD-NEES Shake Table," Proceedings, IMAC XXVIII: Conference & Exposition on Structural Dynamics, Jacksonville, Florida, February 2010.
• Stavridis, Andreas, "Analytical and Experimental Study of Seismic Performance of Reinforced Concrete Frames Infilled with Masonry Walls," Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 2010.
• Shing, P.B, Stavridis, A., Koutromanos, I., Willam, K., Blackard, B., Kyriakides, M.A., Billington, S.L., and Arnold, S., "Seismic Performance of Non-Ductile RC Frames with Brick Infill," Proceedings, Conference on Improving the Seismic Performance of Existing Buildings and Other Structures, Applied technology Council and Structural Engineering Institute, San Francisco, CA, December, 2009.
• Stavridis, A. and Shing, P.B., "Sensitivity Analysis of a Modeling Scheme for Masonry-Infilled RC Frames," Proceedings, SEAOC Convention, San Diego, CA, 2009.
• Stavridis, A. and Shing, P.B., "Calibration of a Numerical Model for Masonry Infilled RC Frames," Proceedings, 14th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Beijing, China, October, 2008.
• Shing, P.B., Restrepo, J., Stavridis, A., Koutromanos, I., Billington, S., Kyriakides, M., Willam, K., Mettupalayam, S., Blackard, B., Citto, C., "Experimental and Analytical Research on Masonry Infilled RC Frames," Proceedings, 2008 NSF Engineering Research and Innovation Conference, Knoxville, Tennessee, 2008.
• Shing, P.B, Stavridis, A., Koutromanos, I., Willam, K., "Experimental and Computational Studies of Seismic Performance of Masonry Infilled RC Frames," Proceedings, Workshop on Issues between Preservation and Safety Requirements after the Valsabbia and Garda Lake Earthquake, Salo, Italy, November, 2007.
• Stavridis, A. and Shing, P.B., "Modeling of Masonry Infilled RC Frames with Discrete and Smeared Crack Elements," Proceedings, ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, Crete, Greece, June, 2007.
• Stavridis, A. and Shing, P.B., "A Study on Masonry Infilled Non-Ductile RC Frames," Proceedings, 2nd NEES/E-Defense Workshop, Miki, Japan, October, 2006.

Development of a Seismic Design Methodology for Precast Building Diaphragms (2008)

• Matthew J. Schoettler, Andrea Belleri, Dichuan Zhang, José I. Restrepo, and Robert B. Fleischman, "Preliminary Results of the Shake-Table Testing for the Development of a Diaphragm Seismic Design Methodology," PCI JOURNAL, V. 54, No. 1, Winter 2009, pp. 100–124.
• Fleischman, R. B.; Naito, C.; Restrepo, J.; Sause R.; Ghosh, S. K., Wan, G., Schoettler, M., and Cao, L., "Seismic Design Methodology for Precast Concrete Diaphragms Part 2: Research Program", PCI JOURNAL, V. 50, No. 6, November-December 2005, pp. 2-19.
• Fleischman, R. B.; Naito, C.; Restrepo, J.; Sause R.; and Ghosh, S. K., "Seismic Design Methodology for Precast Concrete Diaphragms, Part 1: Design Framework," PCI JOURNAL, V. 50, No. 5, September-October 2005, pp. 68-83.
• Cao, L.; Naito, C.; and Sause, R., "Phase 1 Experimental Evaluation of Diaphragm Connections: Program Overview," Report by DSDM LU Group, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, 2005.

Performance-Based Design of New Masonry Structures (2007)

• Okail, H.O., Jo, S., Shing, P.B., Klingner, R.E., McGinley, W.M., and McLean, D.I., "Shaking-Table Testing of Single-Story Clay Masonry Veneer Wood-Frame Building," Proceedings, 9th US National and 10th Canadian Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Toronto, Canada, July, 2010.
• Klingner, R.E., Shing , P.B., McGinley, W.M., McLean, D.I., Okail, H., and Jo, S., "Seismic Performance Tests of Masonry and Masonry Veneer," Journal of ASTM International, Vol. 7, No. 3, January, 2010.
• Okail, H., Shing, P.B., Klingner, R.E. and McGinley, W.M., "Performance of Clay Masonry Veneer in Wood-Stud Walls Subjected to Out-of-plane Seismic Loads," Journal of Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, 2010.
• Okail, H., Shing, P.B., McGinley, W., Klingner, R., Jo, S., and McLean, D., "Shaking-Table Tests of a Full-Scale Single-Story Masonry Veneer Wood-Frame Structure." Journal of Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics. 2010.
• Okail, H.O., Shing, P. B., Klingner, R.E., and McGinley, W.M., "Modeling of the Dynamic Behavior of Brick Veneer Subjected to Earthquake Ground Motions," Proceedings, 2nd International Conference on Computational Methods in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, Island of Rhodes, Greece, June, 2009.
• Jo, S., Okail, H., Klingner, R.E., McGinley, W.M., and Shing, P.B., "NSF NEES Small-group Project on Performance-based Design of Masonry and Masonry Veneer," Proceedings, ASCE/SEI Structures Congress, Austin, Texas, April, 2009.
• Okail, H.O., Shing, P.B., Klingner, R.E., and McGinley, W.M., "Seismic Performance of Clay Masonry Veneer," Proceedings, 14th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Beijing, China, October, 2008.
• Klingner, R.E., Shing, P.B., Okail, H., and Jo, S. "NSF NEES Small-Group Project On Performance-Based Design of Masonry and Masonry Veneer," Proceedings, 2nd International TMS Workshop on the Structural Design of Masonry in the Americas, Cancun, Quintana Roo, Mexico, May, 2008.

Seismic Response of a 7-Story RC Building (2006)

• Panagiotou, M. and J. I. Restrepo, "A Displacement-Based Method of Analysis: Application to a 7-Story Full Scale Building Slice Tested at UC San Diego." ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering (under review).
• Panagiotou, M., J. I. Restrepo and J. P. Conte, "Shake Table Test of a 7-Story Full Scale Reinforced Concrete Wall Building Slice, Phase I: Rectangular Wall." ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering (under review).
• Moaveni, B., He, X., Conte, J.P., and Restrepo, J.I. (2010). "Damage Identification Study of a Seven-Story Full-scale Building Slice Tested on the UCSD-NEES Shake Table." Structural Safety, 32(5), 347-356.
• Waugh, J.D. and Sritharan, S. "Lessons Learned from Seismic Analysis of a Seven-Story Concrete Test Building." Jornal of Earthquake Engineering, 14, 448-469. 2010.
• Barbosa, A.R., M. Panagiotou, J. P. Conte and J. I. Restrepo, "Comparison of Dynamic Strut-and-Tie and Fiber Beam-Column Models for the UCSD Seven-Story Full-scale Building Slice Test," in Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Urban Earthquake Engineering, Tokyo, Japan, March 2009.
• Grange, S., Kotronis, P., and Mazars, J. (2009). "Numerical Modeling of the Seismic Behaviour of a 7-Story Building: NEES Benchmark." Materials and Structures, 42: 10, 1433-1442.
• Martinelli, P. and Filippou, F. (2009). "Simulation of the Shaking Table Test of a Seven-Story Shear Wall Building." Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics, 38, 587-607.
• Hoehler, M.S., M. Panagiotou, J. I. Restrepo, J. F. Silva, L. Floriani, U. Bourgund and H. Gassnerc, "Performance of Anchored Pipes in a 7 Story Building During Full-Scale Shake Table Tests," Earthquake Spectra, Vol 25, Issue 1, pp. 71-91, 2009.
• Beyer, K. , Dazio, A. and Priestley, M. J. N. (2008). "Quasi-Static Cyclic Tests of Two U-Shaped Reinforced Concrete Walls," Journal of Earthquake Engineering, 12: 7, 1023-1053.
• Schotanus, M.IJ. and Maffei, J.R. "Computer Modeling and Effective Stiffness of Concrete Wall Buildings." 2008.
• Xuan Huy, N. "Seven-Story Building Subjected to Seismic Loading: Experimentation and Modeling." Asian Journal of Civil Engineering (Building and Housing), 9: 2, 131-139. 2008.
• Panagiotou, M. and J. I. Restrepo, "Lessons Learnt from the UCSD Full-scale Shake Table Testing on a 7-Story Residential Building Slice," SEAOC convention, Lake Tahoe, September 26-29, 2007.
• Panagiotou, M. and J. I. Restrepo, "A modification of the equivalent lateral force procedure for use in performance based seismic design of high rise buildings," 12th U.S.-Japan Workshop on Structural design and Construction Practices, September 10 - 12, Hawaii, 2007.
• Hoehler, M.S., J. F. Silva, L. Floriani, U. Bourgund, H. Gassner, J. I. Restrepo and M. Panagiotou, "Full-scale shake table test of pipes anchored in a 7-story RC building," FIP Symposium on "Connections between Steel and Concrete," Stuttgart, Germany, September 2007.
• Grange, S., Mazars, J., and Kotronis, P. "Analyse sismique du comportement d'une structure de 7 étages à échelle 1 en béton armé : benchmark international NEES." 18ème Congrès Français de Mécanique, August 27-31, 2007.
• Chourasia, A., "Digital Re-Creation of a Seven-Story Building Shake during an Earthquake", ACM Crossroads, 13-­3, 2007.
• Panagiotou, M., J. I. Restrepo and J. P. Conte, "Shake table test of a 7 story full scale reinforced concrete structural wall building slice - Phase II: T-wall section," Report No SSRP-07/08, University of California, San Diego, 2007.
• Panagiotou, M., J. I. Restrepo and J. P. Conte, "Shake table test of a 7 story full scale reinforced concrete structural wall building slice - Phase I: Rectangular wall," Report No SSRP-07/07, University of California, San Diego, 2007.
• Kelly, T. "A Blind Prediction Test of Nonlinear Analysis Procedures for Reinforced Concrete Shear Walls." 2007.
• Wallace, J.W. "Modelling Issues for Tall Reinforced Concrete Core Wall Buildings." The Structural Design of Tall and Special Buildings, 16, 615-632. 2007.
• Alves, S.W., and Noble, C.R. "Experimental Validation of LLNL Finite Element Codes for Nonlinear Seismic Simulations (Progress, Year 1 of 2)." Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, December 2006.
• Panagiotou, M. and J. I. Restrepo, "Model Calibration for the UCSD 7-Story Building Slice," NEES/UCSD Seminar on Analytical Modeling of Reinforced Concrete Walls for Earthquake Resistance, La Jolla, California, USA, December, 2006.
• Panagiotou, M., J. I. Restrepo, J. P. Conte and R. E. Englekirk, "Shake Table Response of a Full Scale Reinforced Concrete Wall Building Slice." Structural Engineering Association of California Convention, Long Beach, CA, USA, September, 2006.
• Panagiotou, M., J. I. Restrepo and R. E. Englekirk, "Experimental Seismic Response of a Full Scale Reinforced Concrete Wall Building," First European Conference on Earthquake Engineering and Seismology, Geneva, Switzerland, 3-8 September, 2006.
• Yang, F., M. Panagiotou, Y. Bock, J. P. Conte and J. I. Restrepo, "Shake Table Tests of a Full Scale Reinforced Concrete Wall Building: Integration of Real Time 50 Hz GPS Displacements and Accelerometer Data," 4th World Conference on Structural Control and Monitoring, San Diego, California, USA, July, 2006.
• Panagiotou, M., J. I. Restrepo and R. E. Englekirk, "Seismic Response of Reinforced Concrete Wall Buildings," 2nd International fib Congress, Naples, Italy, June, 2006.
• Panagiotou, M., J. I. Restrepo, J. P. Conte and R. E. Englekirk, "Seismic Response of Reinforced Concrete Wall Buildings," 8th National Conference of Earthquake Engineering, San Francisco, CA, USA, April, 2006.

Wind Turbine Demonstration Test (2004)

• Ian Prowell, Ahmed Elgamal, and Jason Jonkman (2009). "FAST Simulation of Seismic Wind Turbine Response," The Asian-Pacific Network of Centers for Earthquake Engineering Research, 2009 ANCER Workshop, August 13-14, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois.
• Prowell, Ian, Veletzos, Marc, Elgamal, Ahmed, and Restrepo, José, "Experimental and Numerical Seismic Response of a 65 kW Wind Turbine," Journal of Earthquake Engineering, 13:1172–1190, 2009.
• Ian Prowell, M. Veletzos, A. Elgamal, and J. Restrepo (2008). "Shake Table Test of a 65kW Wind Turbine and Computational Simulation," Proc. 14th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, October 12-17, Beijing, China.