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OpenSees Student Innovation Prizes

We are pleased to announce the call for submissions to the first annual QuakeCoRE OpenSees Student Innovation Prize Competition. Two $500 prizes will be awarded at the 2016 QuakeCoRE Annual Meeting recognizing significant earthquake engineering research that has been undertaken using the OpenSees finite element analysis platform.

Submissions will be accepted at the same time as abstracts for the QuakeCoRE Annual Meeting. Potential submission content includes, but is not limited to: (1) large, complex, and computationally intensive applications of OpenSees that involve innovative applications of modeling tools; (2) implementation of new constitutive models, elements, solvers, or other computational tools into the OpenSees framework; (3) community contributions such as the development of pre- and post-processing tools beneficial for general analysis or comprehensive example analyses that explain in detail how to model specific useful structural and geotechnical problems.

Please register your interest to submit to christopher.mcgann@canterbury.ac.nz prior to 5 August 2016. Submissions will take the form of a research poster that explains the overall research project associated with the OpenSees development/application including some discussion on the particular OpenSees usage/development in the work. Those who are presenting a poster at the annual meeting can use this as their submission, but be sure to provide notification of your interest in submitting to the competition by the deadline noted above. For those who are not presenting a poster at the meeting, please prepare a poster and submit to christopher.mcgann@canterbury.ac.nz prior to 31 August 2016. Posters shall be A0 landscape format. The winning submissions will best fit the judging criteria of “significant and/or practically-useful contribution to earthquake engineering analysis using OpenSees”. Enquiries can be directed to christopher.mcgann@canterbury.ac.nz

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DesignSafe-CI: https://www.designsafe-ci.org

GiD+OpenSees: http://gidopensees.rclab.civil.auth.gr/

Build-X: https://www.buildx4opensees.eu/

2016 OpenSees Student Innovation Prizes

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We are pleased to announce the winners for the first annual QuakeCoRE OpenSees Student Innovation Prize Competition. Two $500 prizes were awarded in conjunction with the 2016 QuakeCoRE Annual Meeting recognizing significant earthquake engineering research that has been undertaken using the OpenSees finite element analysis platform. The winning submissions were those that best fit the judging criteria of “the most significant and/or practically-useful contribution to earthquake engineering analysis using OpenSees.”

2016 QuakeCoRE OpenSees Student Innovation Prize Winners:

Ericson Encina Zuniga (University of Auckland) - Ericson developed a number of tools to facilitate the modeling beam elements using fibre section models to define the cross-sectional response in OpenSees. These tools include Excel sheets that allow the user to easily understand and define the geometric properties of the fibre section models and to interactively define the uniaxial constitutive models for the concrete and reinforcing steel portions of the section, as well as a series of tcl procedures to aid in recording information from the fibre sections during analysis and to automatically troubleshoot convergence issues. The files and tools developed by Ericson are available here.

James Maguire (University of Wollongong and University of Auckland) - James created a 3D visualisation tool in python that can be used to examine the deformed shape of an OpenSees model. This tool pulls the nodal coordinates from the OpenSees model file and reads the displacements from the recorded output. James' visualisation tool can be used to create interactive plots for 3D models via a series of slider that allow the user to increase/decrease the deformation magnification scale, change the camera viewpoint, and incrementally cycle through the time steps for a dynamic analysis. The visualisation tool developed by James is available here. The text file _ModelVisualiser description_.txt  provides an overview of the tool and describes the python packages needed to run it.