Courses
Caltech Civil Engineering 180: Experimental Methods in Earthquake Engineering
Fall 2013
Lectures: Wednesdays (or Fridays), 1-5 p.m., 110 Thomas
Lecturer: Monica Kohler, Ph.D.
Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering
318 Gates-Thomas
Phone: (626) 395-4142
Schedule and handouts
- Syllabus (pdf)
- Report format (pdf)
- Friday, October 11: Lecture 1 in prep for first exercise
- Saturday, October 12: Laboratory Exercise I - Millikan Library (pdf) Millikan Library data (zip) all data (zip) (Clinton et al. 2006 paper)
- Friday, October 25: Lecture 2 in prep for second exercise
- Wednesday, October 30: Laboratory Exercise II - Modal Analysis of a Model Structure (pdf) (data) (Experiment Plan) (Schmidtberg and Pal, 1986 paper) (Dytran Spec Sheet)
- Wednesday, November 6: Lecture 3 in prep for third exercise
- Wednesday, November 13: Laboratory Exercise III - Millikan Pedestrian Bridge (pdf) (data)
- Monday, November 25: Lecture 4 in prep for fourth exercise
- Monday, December 2: Laboratory Exercise IV - Cantilever Beam experiment (pdf) (data)
Miscellaneous
No required textbook. References are on Open Reserve at the Sherman Fairchild Library
