This year, UC Berkeley's Cal Seismic Design team attended the annual Seismic Design Competition hosted by the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) held in Seattle, Washington, from April 9th to April 12th. The student teams had to build a complex wooden building model that could withstand simulated earthquakes by being tested on a shaking table.
Over 30 teams from universities in the U.S. and globally competed in this year's Seismic Design Competition to see how their building models would perform in response to shaking table motions. Each team was judged based on its overall oral design presentation, summary poster, model architectural design, ability to fit design criteria constraints, and analytical description of how its model would perform.
The goal of the annual Seismic Design Competition is to encourage undergraduate students to study earthquake engineering and give them the chance to construct a cost-effective project frame design that can resist seismic loading. Thank you to Computers and Structures Inc. (CSI) for sponsoring Cal Seismic! Even though Cal Seismic's tower did not make it through the final shake, we are incredibly proud of their sportsmanship and hard work! Go Bears!!
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