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!
The SLC would also like to recognize the support of:
The department of civil and environmental engineering and the center for geotechnical modeling at UC Davis for providing and maintaining the shake table .
University of Memphis for providing the competition accelerometers.
Portland State University for providing the competition’s weights.
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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