Uk-Nees: Summary of Activities At Bristol University

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This paper describes the development of the UK-NEES network incorporating the university laboratories at Bristol, Oxford and Cambridge in the UK; and in particular focuses on the activities at Bristol University. The purpose of developing a UK-NEES network is to provide the main UK earthquake engineering experimental laboratories at Bristol, Oxford and Cambridge universities with the necessary equipment to become nodes of the NEES network allowing them to benefit from the data-sharing and teleparticipation aspects of the NEES system. UK-NEES has built on the software and hardware systems developed by the US network and has been created to allow teleparticipation by remote users in tests performed in any of the three laboratories, to provide open access to consistently formatted data from tests in the three laboratories, to enable both synchronous and asynchronous distributed tests between the three laboratories, to maximising the size of structure that can be tested, and to allow the laboratories to link into the US NEES network. The main activities at Bristol have been the procurement and commissioning of the basic NEES and AGN equipment, the integration of control and data acquisition systems at Bristol with the NEES software and the development of evaluation and demonstrator tests for the system including high speed distributed tests. All these activities are discussed in this paper.

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