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While woodframe structures have historically performed well with regard to life safety in regions of moderate to high seismicity, these types of low-rise structures have sustained significant structural and non-structural damage in recent earthquakes...
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At Colorado State University, Prof. John van de Lindt has applied a base isolation system to a light-frame wood building for shake-table testing. The test structure is supported on a base isolation system consisting of four sliding bearings. The bearings...
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At Colorado State University, civil engineering professor Dr. John van de Lindt conducted a series of earthquake shake table tests of a half-scale two-story residential building with an integrated one car garage as part of a National Science Foundation...
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The Challenge: Building a full-authority, FPGA-based engine control system for a high-performance motorcycle engine. The Solution: Using National Instruments CompactRIO and LabVIEW environment to focus directly on engine control software and I/O board...
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The Berkeley Aerobot (BEAR) project is a collective, interdisciplinary research effort at UC Berkeley that encompasses the disciplines of hybrid systems theory, navigation, control, computer vision, communication, and multi-agent coordination, since 1996...
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The c-Link Systems Trak-Bot is a tabletop educational robotic vehicle used to explore and demonstrate autonomous vehicle motion. The robot is perfect for students and hobbyists to test motion programming or autonomous concepts that need to be demonstrated...
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The Motorsport Engineering academic program at Colorado State University focuses on advanced motorsport engineering degrees, targeting the racing and performance industries. At the MS-level, students may specialize in studies related to either race vehicle...
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Lindsay Lawler, inventor of the Electric Giraffe, discusses the project's past, present and future, from it's 10 month-long build cycle, to adventures at the Burning Man festival, to it's role in shaping the imaginations of future generations...
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The goal of the claytronics project at Carnegie Mellon University is to create a material which can be programmed to form dynamic three dimensional shapes that can visually take on an arbitrary appearance. CMU Professor and Vice Provost for Research Peter...