UT Mobile Shakers

NHERI@UTexas experimental facility with large-scale mobile shakers: T-Rex, Liquidator, Thumper, and friends.

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Still in ShakeOut mode! In an unprecedented collaboration between @USGS and @NSF, researchers utilized a 34-ton T-Rex triaxial vibroseis shaker truck for seismic surveys at Hawai‘i’s Kīlauea volcano. #NHERIShake

https://t.co/cNCroxxV1y

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It’s ShakeOut Day! Check out this viral @tomscott video featuring the T-Rex shaker truck, available at the University of Texas at Austin, simulating earthquakes for research engineers: https://t.co/x92fDJwDEN #NHERIShake

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Getting back to socially-distanced field research by testing periodic meta-material isolation devices with Prof. Mo from @UHEngineering

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Lots of new coverage of our liquefaction testing in Portland. @KOINNews @KATUNews @KGWNews @fox12oregon Great research being done by the team @CEEdeptPDX. Microorganisms can help save structures and lives through liquefaction mitigation! #Resilience

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NHERI's own T-Rex @UTmobileShakers @Portland_State helping to prevent soil #liquefaction. #NSFfunded @NSF_ENG

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T-Rex, Rattler, and the gang doing in-situ liquefaction tests in the PNW. Reaching larger soil shear strains by working (& shaking) together! w/ Drs. Armin Stuedlein & @TMatthewEvans of @OregonStateCCE and Drs. Ken Stokoe & Brady Cox of @ut_caee

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See what can happen when we work together?! Recent proof-of-concept work in Austin shows that when T-Rex and Rattler shake together, we can induce larger soil strains and pore water pressure. Can't wait to try this new technique in future in-situ liquefaction tests!

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Here are some of the cool undergrad researchers I got to meet last summer in the NHERI REU program. Come join us for some fun research this summer! Applications due Feb 1. @ut_caee

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High achieving undergrads: time to apply for NHERI's 2019 REU summer research program, 10 weeks of natural hazards research at one of NHERI's world-class research facilities. Application deadline is Feb 1. @NSF_ENG @NHERI_NCO https://t.co/FRRYKpLIMt

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While I was in the PNW and wasn't testing at the Seattle @WSCCAddition site, I went down to the Columbia River for some surface wave testing for @OregonStateCCE Dr. Stuedlein and @ut_caee Dr. Stokoe's project studying liquefaction of transitional silty soils. What fun!

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Hi, it's me, Thumper! I'm the smallest of the shakers, so I can go in urban areas my bigger shaker friends can't. In Nov. I was in Seattle at the @WSCCAddition site helping Dr. Finno @NorthwesternEng on work to better predict ground movements in large excavation projects.

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T-Rex here. #tbt Reminiscing about my 2013 trip across the ocean to New Zealand to help my @ut_caee human friends Drs. Ken Stokoe & Brady Cox study liquefaction mitigation strategies and Vs profiles in the aftermath of the Christchurch earthquakes https://t.co/EzvMU8Rvij

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Last September I went to Toronto to help test microbially-induced ground improvements for Dr. Edward Kavazanjian from @ASUEngineering! Who knew bacteria could be so useful in mitigating earthquake-induced liquefaction?

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Hi, I'm T-Rex, a big shaker truck from The University of Texas at Austin that's traveled around the world to help with dynamic field tests for natural hazards engineering research. I'm here to tell the world more about what my shaker truck friends and I are up to! Stay tuned...