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One of the main activities of this RCN will be workshops. Stay tuned for further information.
5th MECHS Workshop: Exploring Multi-hazard and Multi-physics Hybrid Simulation
The workshop took place on August 9-10 on the Purdue University campus in West Lafayette, Indiana. It was directed towards researchers, students, and industry professionals interested in hybrid simulation. It was aimed to provide opportunities for fruitful collaborations between academia and industry. Furthermore, a hands-on activity for attendees new to the field was carried on on August 8. The participants had the opportunity to learn about RTHS principles and design and test their own controllers for a nonlinear benchmark control problem.
Take a look at the 5th year workshop report .
Special Workshop - Jointly held by the NHERI-WOW, NHERI-RTMD and MECHS: "New Trends in Real-Time Hybrid Simulations to Advance Fluid-Structure Interaction Research"
This workshop took place on February 8-9, 2023, and it was held in person at Florida International University (FIU) in Miami, Florida. The RTHS and hybrid simulation community, as well as the wind and wave engineering community, showed a great interest in the workshop. Over 45 people registered and attended, including those who participated in person and those who attended to the broadcasted live demonstration of a real-time hybrid simulation.
Take a look at the Fluid-Structure Interaction Workshop .
Focused Discussion at NHERI Summit 2022
The 2022 NHERI Summit focused discussion session "Nonlinear Real-time Hybrid Simulation" was held on October 7, 2022, in Washington, DC. A group of 35 researchers attended the focused session, including faculty, government officials, and graduate students. In addition, the group included several participants new to the HS and MECHS community. The MECHS team proposed and provided a nonlinear benchmark control problem with a complete virtual real-time hybrid simulation (RTHS) simulation code package to interested attendees of the 2022 NHERI Summit. The MECHS community was invited to try this problem statement to learn more about RTHS and control design.
See the Focused Discussion Report .
4th Workshop (Virtual) - "Machine Learning in Hybrid Simulation"
This workshop was held online on March 25th, 2022. The goal of this workshop was to discuss the potential for machine learning to enhance our ability to perform better or accelerate hybrid simulations, as well as our ability to learn from the results of hybrid simulation. The workshop consisted of four short informal vision talks, followed by small group discussions to generate new research ideas. Presentations to trigger the discussion were:
The presentation recordings are available at the links below:
Take a look at the Year 5 Workshop Report .
3rd Workshop (Virtual) - Jointly held by UniValle and MECHS: "Confronting New Challenges"
The 3rd Joint UniValle/MECHS Workshop was held July 15-16, 2021, virtually. The Universidad del Valle (UniValle) from Cali, Colombia participated directly in organizing this workship in which a group of researchers participated including multi-hazard engineering researchers, graduate students, international partners, practitioners, and interdisciplinary collaborators. During this 2 day virtual workshop we aimed to focus on two specific topics: a) nonlinearities and managing uncertainty, and b) computational bottlenecks. Two 20 minute presentations were delivered each day to jump start the conversation, followed by a discussion intended to identify the requirements to overcome current challenges in these techniques.
Enjoy the plenary talks that were presented in this workshop:
2nd Workshop - Jointly held by ETH and MECHS: "New Frontiers and Innovative Methods for Hybrid Simulation"
The 2nd MECHS Workshop (held in partnership with ETH-Zurich) was held March 13-15, 2019 in Zurich, Switzerland. A group of 35 researchers participated including multi-hazard engineering researchers, graduate students, international partners, practitioners, and interdisciplinary collaborators. Resilient infrastructure requires that we strive to obtain a deeper understanding of the salient behaviors and uncertanties present when structures are exposed to hazardous loading conditions. When structural systems are too large or complex to test in the laboratory, the cyber-physical testing method known as hybrid simulation (HS), a.k.a. dynamic virtualization, provides an important tool for their examination. Presentations were given by participants and are provided on the HySim19 website.
See the updated Year 2 Research Agenda , and the Year 2 Workshop Report .
1st MECHS Workshop: "Breaking Barriers and Building Capacity"
The 1st MECHS Workshop was held December 12-13, 2017 in San Diego, California. A group of 40 researchers participated including multihazard engineering researchers, graduate students, international partners, and interdisciplinary collaborators. During this 1.5 day workshop we aimed to:
Short presentations were given by participants and are provided ( short presentations ).
Take a look at the Year 1 Workshop Report .
The community vision for hybrid simulation has evolved over the last several years. A task group was formed within the NEES Simulation Steering Subcommittee, and based on the results of a community survey, was charged with tasks to develop materials of use to the community. Two task group meetings were held in 2014, one on developing a primer and common vocabulary for hybrid simulation, and the second on discussing the assessment criteria. The documents resulting from those discussions are available on the Resources page.
Several conference sessions on HS and RTHS have been held to promote this method, and to share and discuss solutions to the main challenges: