NEES @ Buffalo

The University at Buffalo (UB)-NEES Equipment Site (http://nees.buffalo.edu): The new Nonstructural Component Simulator (NCS), and the two highperformance six-degrees-of-freedom shake tables at the UB-NEES Site will be used to conduct the component and subsystem experiments. Each shake table has a payload capacity of 50 tons, stroke capacities of ± 6 in horizontal and 6 in vertical and a velocity capacity of 40 in/s.

The NCS can subject a variety of nonstructural subsystems to full-scale dynamic motions (± 40 in, ± 100 in/s, ± 3g) experienced by two adjacent floor levels in a building. Multiple subsystems can be tested simultaneously, which allows testing of a large number of specimens. Standard instrumentation will be used, including a visually-based 3-dimensional coordinate tracking system (KRYPTON). Specimen removal is planned and budgeted.