2017 Seismic Design Competition

The 2017 Undergraduate Seismic Design Competition was held in conjunction with the 2017 EERI Annual Meeting in Portland, Oregon from March 7th to 10th.

Thirty-three teams from all over the world competed. The SLC would like to thank all teams for their participation, and hopes to see you all again next year at the 2018 Undergraduate Seismic Design Competition!

Many thanks to the generous sponsors of the 2017 SDC!

 

2017 SDC Champions: Cornell University

Rank	Team Name
1	Cornell University
2	Stanford University
3	California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

Click on the following links for videos and pictures the 2017 SDC:
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2017 SDC Results Summary

 28 structures survived all three ground motions:

Rank	Team Name
1	Cornell University
2	Stanford University
3	California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
4	University of California, Berkeley
5	Karadeniz Technical University
6	Technical University of Cluj-Napoca
7	California Polytechnic State University, SLO
8	University of Toronto
9	University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez
10	The State University of New York at Buffalo
11	University of California, San Diego
12	Technical University of Civil Engineering Bucharest
13	University of California, Los Angeles
14	California State University, Los Angeles
15	Purdue University
16	University of British Columbia
17	University of Southern California
18	University of Massachusetts-Amherst
19	University of Connecticut
20	Iowa State University
21	University of Nebraska – Lincoln
22	McMaster University
23	San Francisco State University
24	North Carolina State University
25	Sacramento State University
26	Rice University
27	Portland State University
28	University of Texas at Austin
29	The University of Memphis

The following structures collapsed:

Rank	Team Name
30	University of Colorado Boulder
31	Virginia Tech
32	Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra
33	Lehigh University

 

The full results can be downloaded HERE

2017 SDC Special Awards

Kinemetrics Award for the Spirit of the Competition:
University of California, Berkeley

Architecture Award:
Karadeniz Technical University

Best Seismic Performance Award:
San Francisco State University

Degenkolb Award for Structural Innovation:
University of Texas at Austin

CSI Communication Award:
Cornell University

T-Shirt Design Contest Winner:
California State University, Los Angeles

FEMA SDC Competition Awards:

Rank	Team Name
1	Cornell University
2	Stanford University
3	California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

 

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