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!

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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