Thursday, March 24, 2016, Clément Barthès, Ph.D, PEER–UC Berkeley Lab Manager, led a group of thirty ASCE-SEI engineers and students on a tour of the PEER
Earthquake Simulator Laboratory.
Tour guests were treated to lunch while Clement gave a brief presentation on wireless remote sensors to monitor bridge dampers. After lunch, the lab tour began with a visit to the high capacity (4 million pounds) universal testing machine (UTM) which is used to perform various tension and compression tests.
Visitors learned how experimental testing is conducted and watched a demonstration of the damper testing machine.