Each NHERI Experimental Facility (EF) hosts an annual workshop to provide prospective users with the knowledge of facility capabilities, Experimental Protocol and discuss details toward developing research proposals. Materials and results from Lehigh's workshops are available below.
The NHERI Lehigh Experimental Facility will be hosting a Researcher Workshop on Thursday, December 8th and Friday, December 9th. The event will provide participants with the opportunity to learn more about the facility by attending presentations on the capabilities and resources of the facility, taking part in a laboratory tour, and witnessing hands-on demonstrations of several large scale multi-directional real-time hybrid simulations of structural systems subjected to extreme natural hazard events that include wind and earthquakes.
Participants will learn how the facility can be used to tackle grand challenge problems, such as those discussed in the NHERI Science Plan. The portfolio of past and current projects will be presented to illustrate how researchers have used the facility to tackle some of these challenges. Attendees will come away from the workshop with valuable Information and insight that enables them to develop strategies for writing successful NSF research proposals that utilize the NHERI Lehigh EF. Workshop participants will be given the opportunity to attend office hours to discuss their interests and gain mentorship in preparing research proposals through face-to-face meetings with the PI and facility staff.
The goals of this workshop are to:
For planning purposes, the workshop is scheduled to begin at 8:30 am EST on Thursday, December 8th, 2022 and will conclude by 1:00 pm EST on Friday, December 9th.
Participant support funds for travel and lodging, up to a maximum of $900 per registrant, are available for travel and lodging. Junior faculty and post-doctoral researchers are particularly encouraged to apply. Requested travel support will be confirmed to the registrant by November 18th. Participant support funds will be reimbursed following the workshop upon the submittal of an expense summary and valid receipts to NHERI Lehigh by registrant.
Questions can be addressed to NHERI Lehigh Operations Manager Chad Kusko at chk205@lehigh.edu or 610-758-5299.
This NHERI Lehigh researcher workshop will be held virtually to enable participants to learn more about the facility’s resources and capabilities, and their utilization for conducting natural hazard research.
The workshop will provide participants the opportunity to learn about past and current projects along with receiving guidance for developing research proposals that utilize the NHERI Lehigh Experimental Facility (EF). NSF recently announced the Engineering Civil Infrastructure (ECI) Program and new funding opportunities in transportation systems (e.g., bridges) and fire within the civil infrastructure. The NHERI Lehigh EF features unique resources for researchers to conduct studies on transportation systems and fire, among other areas identified in the ECI Program.
The goals of this workshop are to:
Questions can be addressed to NHERI Lehigh Operations Manager Chad Kusko at chk205@lehigh.edu or 610-75-5299.
This NHERI researcher workshop was held at the NHERI Lehigh’s Real-Time Multi-Directional (RTMD) Facility in Bethlehem, PA to enable participants to learn more about the facility capabilities through presentations and demonstrations, to network with colleagues in the natural hazard mitigation field, and to seek guidance on planned research proposals.
The goals of this workshop were to:
Presentations and outcomes of the workshop:
Day 1
Day 2
11:00 am – 1:30 pm EST
The NHERI Lehigh Real-Time Multi-Directional (RTMD) Experimental Facility is hosting a virtual user workshop. The focus of the workshop is to:
Workshop participants will be provided with valuable information about the resources available at the NHERI Lehigh RTMD EF and how to engage the EF for obtaining NSF funding for natural hazards mitigation research and other basic science research. The workshop will include a virtual tour of the NHERI Lehigh RTMD EF and the EF capabilities.
This collaborative workshop between NHERI Lehigh and NHERI UCSD and NHERI SimCenter will be held at the NHERI Lehigh’s Real-Time Multi-Directional (RTMD) Facility in Bethlehem, PA to enable participants to learn more about the facility capabilities, to network with colleagues in the natural hazard mitigation field, and to seek guidance on planned research proposals.
The goals of this workshop series are to:
Presentations and outcomes of the workshop:
Day 1
Day 2
This collaborative workshop between NHERI Lehigh and NHERI Florida International University will be held at the NHERI Lehigh Real-Time Multi-Directional (RTMD) Facility in Bethlehem, PA and will be developed as an interactive series of sessions that includes presentations, facility tours, and hands-on demonstrations and activities, including discussions on challenges and opportunities for multi-hazards engineering and multi-hazards hybrid simulation testing currently being collaboratively developed by NHERI Lehigh and NHERI FIU.
Participants will also learn about NHERI Lehigh, including its equipment and instrumentation portfolio and the capabilities and experimental protocols of the NHERI Lehigh EF, along with those of NHERI FIU. Participants will gain critical knowledge required to write successful NSF proposals utilizing the facility’s equipment and staff. Attendees will also be educated on the RTMD site portfolio of projects in order to guide them and generate ideas for new potential research projects. Additionally, attendees will be introduced to the real-time hybrid simulation method and have the opportunity to work with hands-on example problems using the NHERI Lehigh EF equipment.
Presentations and outcomes of the workshop:
8:30am - 8:40am: | Welcome, Objectives, and Agenda Overview - J. Ricles (NHERI Lehigh PI) |
8:40am - 8:50am: | Introduction to Lehigh EF Staff and Website |
8:50am - 9:05am: | Preparing a Competitive NSF Proposal |
9:05am - 10:15am: | NHERI Lehigh Experimental Capabilities and Protocols; NHERI Lehigh IT Operations and Cyber Infrastructure |
10:25am - 10:45am: | NHERI Lehigh Facility Project Portfolio |
10:45am - 11:00am: | Proposal Preparation and Post-Award Expectations |
12:40pm - 1:10pm: | FIU Overview; Challenges and Opportunities for Multi-Hazards Engineering |
1:10pm - 1:40pm: | RTHS: Background, Theory, and Implementation |
1:40pm - 2:10pm: | Lehigh-FIU Hybrid Wind Simulation Developments |
2:10pm - 2:40pm: | NHERI SimCenter Overview and Capabilities |
2:40pm - 3:00pm: | Laboratory Exercises: Damper Characterization Testing ; Real-Time Multi-Hazard Hybrid Simulation of Tall Building System |
The objectives of the workshop were:
Presentations and outcomes of the workshop:
The objectives of the workshop were:
Presentations and outcomes of the workshop:
DAY ONE
Technical Session I
Participant Presentations – Large-scale Simulation/NaturalHazards
Technical Session II
Participant Presentations – Computational Modeling/Hybrid Simulation
Technical Session III
Examples – Prior Projects Conducted at Lehigh
DAY TWO
NHERI Facility Overviews
8:30am - 8:40am: | NHERI NCO (D. Zehner) |
8:40am - 8:50am: | NHERI Sim Center (A. Schellenberg) |
8:50am - 9:00am: | NHERI RAPID (J. Berman) |
9:00am - 9:10am: | |
9:10am - 9:30am: | Overview of Large-Scale Damper Characterization and RTHS Demonstration (C. Kolay, T. Marullo, NHERI Lehigh EF) |
11:15am - 11:35am: | Guidelines for Proposal Preparation (C. Kusko, NHERI Lehigh EF) |
11:35am - 11:45am: | Payload Project Protocol, Researcher Training (C. Kusko, NHERI Lehigh EF) |
Lehigh University’s NHERI Experimental Facility hosted its first Research Workshop on Monday, November 9th, 2015 at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA. For more information, please review the linked PDFs below.
The objectives of the workshop were:
Workshop documents: