Well, the day has finally arrived. We are shaking the piles tomorrow morning. (Wednesday, February 17, 2016).

We will do seven shake sequences starting from the 1994 Northridge California Earthquake (around a Magnitude 6.7) and ending with the 1995 Kobe Takatori Japan Earthquake (around a Magnitude 6.9). We will vary the amplitude starting from 50% to full strength. We will also run a compressed time scale so that we can model some bigger piles.
On Thursday the 18th we will do the next shake sequence with the inertial masses starting around noon.

We placed all the sponsor stickers on the masses today and finished the skid preparation. All that is left to do is SHAKE and hope the data are awesome!  Let’s do this.
I’ll leave you with some more press for the project.

http://www.oudaily.com/news/ou-professor-to-perform-first-of-its-kind-seismic-test/article_bb67d8b4-cab6-11e5-ac8e-33baa7ec69e8.html?mode=story

http://www.koco.com/news/ou-researcher-studying-building-techniques-for-earthquakes/37878158