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UC San Diego Shake Table

@nheri_ucsd

Home of the world's largest high-performance outdoor shake table. Reducing the devastating impacts of earthquakes since 2004.

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What an exciting week for the CFS10 project! 🎉 Big kudos to the team at LHPOST6 for lifting and installing the 9th and final CFS module, reaching 100 feet and hitting the 10-story milestone! UC San Diego U.S. National Science Foundation NHERI Dream team ➡️cfs10.ucsd.edu/people/ Watch⬇️

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Congrats to Shake Table PI John McCartney on the 2025 Shamsher Prakash Award & Lecture from ASCE Headquarters. His pioneering work in unsaturated soil mechanics, geosynthetics and energy geotechnics is shaping the future of the field. Read more⤵️ se.ucsd.edu/awards/asce-re…

Congrats to Shake Table PI John McCartney on the 2025 Shamsher Prakash Award &amp; Lecture from <a href="/ASCETweets/">ASCE Headquarters</a>. His pioneering work in unsaturated soil mechanics, geosynthetics and energy geotechnics is shaping the future of the field.

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Had a blast during a shake table tour for UC San Diego Revelle Freshman Honors Seminar! Co-PI Lelli Van Den Einde led a lecture on the shake table’s role in disaster engineering, followed by a tour with 19 engaged students. U.S. National Science Foundation More info on tours⬇️ esec.ucsd.edu/education-outr…

Had a blast during a shake table tour for <a href="/UCSanDiego/">UC San Diego</a> Revelle Freshman Honors Seminar! Co-PI Lelli Van Den Einde led a lecture on the shake table’s role in disaster engineering, followed by a tour with 19 engaged students.  <a href="/NSF/">U.S. National Science Foundation</a> 

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Love seeing engineering students in action! This winter, Tayo Ilunga-Reed and Tyler Sugrim from Johns Hopkins Engineering helped prep a 10-story cold-formed steel project for shake table testing. They're shaping the future of #earthquake resilience! U.S. National Science Foundation Read⬇️ engineering.jhu.edu/case/news/hopk…

Love seeing engineering students in action! This winter, Tayo Ilunga-Reed and Tyler Sugrim from <a href="/HopkinsEngineer/">Johns Hopkins Engineering</a> helped prep a 10-story cold-formed steel project for shake table testing. They're shaping the future of #earthquake resilience! 
<a href="/NSF/">U.S. National Science Foundation</a>  

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The NHERI Graduate Student Council is excited to announce our third annual NHERI GSC Mini-Conference. Submit your abstracts by Friday, March 28, 2025: bit.ly/2025NHERIGSC_M….

The NHERI Graduate Student Council is excited to announce our third annual NHERI GSC Mini-Conference. Submit your abstracts by Friday, March 28, 2025: bit.ly/2025NHERIGSC_M….
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Industry partners are vital to shake table projects, providing expertise & support and aiding research on #earthquake resilience. One of them is Grabber Construction Products, key partner for the current CFS10 project. U.S. National Science Foundation NHERI More ⬇️ linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…

Industry partners are vital to shake table projects, providing expertise &amp; support and aiding research on #earthquake resilience.  One of them is Grabber Construction Products, key partner for the current CFS10 project.
<a href="/NSF/">U.S. National Science Foundation</a> <a href="/NHERIDesignSafe/">NHERI</a> 

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#ThrowbackThursday to when Amy Cerato of University of Oklahoma and her team revolutionized helical pile research! The UC San Diego shake table test provided key seismic data for engineers in #seismic zones. Watch full video⤵️ youtu.be/fjUaS_INRyI?si…

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🚨 Earthquakes rocked San Diego County this week! Good news: UC San Diego's world-famous shake table is helping make buildings, bridges & other structures safer when the ground shakes. 💪🌍 Thanks to support from U.S. National Science Foundation! Watch on CBS 8 San Diego ⤵️ cbs8.com/article/weathe…

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At the UC San Diego shake table, we're not just testing buildings—we're pushing the envelope of seismic research. Our researchers are collecting real data that can change building codes and make our communities safer. More on FOX 5 San Diego ⤵️ fox5sandiego.com/news/earthquak…

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During a recent visit to our shake table, legendary structural engineer Ashraf Habibullah experienced a real 5.2 magnitude quake alongside our researchers — talk about seismic timing! 😱✨ Read⬇️ se.ucsd.edu/awards/legenda…

During a recent visit to our shake table, legendary structural engineer Ashraf Habibullah experienced a real 5.2 magnitude quake alongside our researchers — talk about seismic timing! 😱✨

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Proud to spotlight UC San Diego SE Ph.D. alumni Claudio Sepúlveda & Ricardo Bustamante, with UCSD Engineering Prof. Gilberto Mosqueda, for co-authoring a landmark study on seismic protection for the Giant Magellan Telescope in Chile! Read ⤵️ se.ucsd.edu/awards/uc-san-…

Proud to spotlight <a href="/UCSanDiego/">UC San Diego</a> SE Ph.D. alumni Claudio Sepúlveda &amp; Ricardo Bustamante, with <a href="/UCSDJacobs/">UCSD Engineering</a>  Prof. Gilberto Mosqueda, for co-authoring a landmark study on seismic protection for the Giant Magellan Telescope in Chile!

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When a 6.3 quake hit Christchurch in 2011, it caused tragic devastation — especially downtown. But buildings on helical piles held up. In 2016, Amy Cerato University of Oklahoma led the first seismic tests on them at UC San Diego's shake table. Watch⤵️ youtu.be/fjUaS_INRyI?si…

When a 6.3 quake hit Christchurch in 2011, it caused tragic devastation — especially downtown. But buildings on helical piles held up. 

In 2016, Amy Cerato <a href="/UofOklahoma/">University of Oklahoma</a> led the first seismic tests on them at <a href="/UCSanDiego/">UC San Diego</a>'s shake table.

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It’s almost shake time for CFS10! PI Tara Hutchinson and team at UC San Diego's shake table just wrapped an epic month of sensor installs: ✅ 750 analog sensors (some 100 ft up!) ✅ 26 miles of cable ✅ 47 cameras ✅ 9 GNSS receivers ✅ Hundreds of UAV tracking markers U.S. National Science Foundation

It’s almost shake time for CFS10!  PI Tara Hutchinson and team at <a href="/UCSanDiego/">UC San Diego</a>'s shake table  just wrapped an epic month of sensor installs: 

✅ 750 analog sensors (some 100 ft up!)
✅ 26 miles of cable 
✅ 47 cameras 
✅ 9 GNSS receivers
✅ Hundreds of UAV tracking markers
<a href="/NSF/">U.S. National Science Foundation</a>