Hybrid Simulation: Empowering Earthquake Engineering Experimentation


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Hybrid Simulation is being increasingly used as a powerful and cost-effective technique for dynamic analysis of structural systems. It enables research related to global and local assessment of civil infrastructure systems subject to dynamic loads. In hybrid simulation, a reference structure is split into two substructures. The physical portion of the structural system is tested in the laboratory while the other components of the structure are substituted with a computational model. Many projects have used hybrid simulation (HS) and real-time hybrid simulation (RTHS) methods for examining and verifying new analysis and design concepts. This paper provides a review of these recent HS and RTHS implementations and their role in advancing the practice of earthquake engineering. Applications in seismic engineering have been considered, especially in large-scale NEES projects, and those with publicly available data in the NEEShub data repository. The paper concludes that these projects have successfully used hybrid simulation to develop new knowledge intended to reduce earthquake risk in a built environment. However, while hybrid testing has facilitated the completion of high impact projects, the full power of this approach has yet to be unleashed.

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16th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering
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Santiago (CL)
Conference Dates:
2017-01-09 / 2017-01-13
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