Multihazard Engineering Collaboratory on Hybrid Simulation
A Research Coordination Network

MECHS (Multi-Hazard Engineering Collaboratory for Hybrid Simulation) is an NSF-funded Research Coordination Network focused on broadening the community of researchers that are engaged in hybrid simulation projects, and aiming to foster new research initiatives to tackle emerging scientific challenges.

Hybrid Simulation is a cyber-physical technique used to examine the behavior of structural systems that may be too large or complex to test in the laboratory. Physical specimens are linked with computational models. A challenge is to ensure that this combined system is tested under realistic conditions. Thus, boundary conditions at the interface between the physical and computational portions must be enforced, and hydraulic actuators are frequently used (see figure below).

AIM: The MECHS research coordination network aims to facilitate the scientific advances needed to establish the theory of and expand the capacity for hybrid simulation as it applies to multi-hazard engineering.

The main objectives are to:

• Diversify the community of researchers using hybrid simulation
• Build capacity for hybrid simulation in existing laboratories
• Develop a research agenda for hybrid simulation
• Foster peer-to-peer and institute-to-institute partnerships
• Share relevant resources and digital artifacts
• Cultivate international collaborations

 

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New!!

• Updated Research Agenda: take a look at our community's priorities and needs!

• Multi-axial Benchmark Control Problem: companion paper.

• Upcoming Event: 5^th MECHS Workshop: Exploring Multi-hazard and Multi-physics Hybrid Simulation

• Hybrid Simulation 201 - Webinar: Hybrid Simulation of Wind-Assisted Ships

• Machine Learning in Hybrid Simulation on March 25th, 2022.

• Hybrid Simulation 201 - Webinar: Real-time and Stochastic Hybrid Simulation.

• HS/RTHS Curriculum: A flow chart of core concepts and a list of courses.

• 3rd Joint UniValle/MECHS Workshop - "Confronting New Challenges."

• Report from the MECHS Subcommittee  on RTHS in Fluid-Structure Interaction Applications.

• Special Issue on New Frontiers and Innovative Methods for Hybrid Simulation.

• "3-minute Thesis" video competition winners on YouTube.

• Special Issue on Recent Advances and Applications of Hybrid Simulation.

• Special Issue on Hybrid Simulation for Multi-Hazard Engineering.

• Special Issue on the real-time hybrid simulation benchmark problem.

• Publication Library with filtering features.