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Collaborators & USERS

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Following collaborators are either using the tools developed in UT-SIM framework or contributing to the framework. 
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Western University
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Engineering 

​Professor Girma Bitsuamlak
Prof. Bitsuamlak will collaborate with Professors Christopoulos and Mercan and use the Structural Testing Facility in combination with the WindEEE dome to conduct multi-hazard (wind and seismic) analysis of tall reinforced concrete buildings and long-span bridges.
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Université de Sherbrooke
Department of Civil Engineering 

​Professor Patrick Paultre
Professor Paultre will collaborate with Professors Kwon and Bentz is planning to run geographically distributed hybrid simulations of a shear wall in a high-rise building and concrete gravity dams. 
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The University of British Columbia
Department of Civil Engineering 

​Professor Tony Yang
Professors Yang and Kwon are planning to use the Structural Testing Facility at the University of Toronto and University of British Columbia to conduct geographically distributed simulations.
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McMaster University
Department of Civil Engineering 

​Professor Michael Tait
In collaboration with Professor Tait in McMaster University, the Ontario Infrastructure and Extreme Hazards Consortium (OIEHC) is being established to foster and promote inter-institutional collaboration, leading to an increase in collaboration, innovation and research expertise, and equipment available to all researchers.
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Queen's University
Department of Civil Engineering 

​Professor  Neil Hoult 
Professor Neil Hoult is an expert in the use of novel instrumentation techniques and has used these in the field for full-scale tests of bridges in service.
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University of Bristol, U.K.
​​Department of Civil Engineering – Queen’s School of Engineering

​Professor Anastasios Sextos
EXCHANGE-SSI project - Application of UI-SimCor for inter-continental hybrid simulation of a bridge structure
EXCHANGE-RISK project - Application of UT-SIM framework for hybrid simulation of natural gas pipeline system 
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University of Washington
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering 

Professor Calvi is an expert in the experimental and numerical modelling of cracked reinforced concrete structures, particularly in terms of assessing damage in structures based on careful evaluation of crack widths and slips.
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Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
Department of Structural & Geotechnical Engineering 

Professor Diego Lopez-Garcia
Simulation of the Seismic performance of Buildings with Advanced Protective Technologies
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University of Illinois, U.S.
Multi-Axial Full Scale Sub-Structured Testing and Simulation Facility

​Professor Bill Spencer
UI-SimCor has been developed from the NEES@Illinois facility. Most of the pseudo-dynamic hybrid simulations in NEES@Illinois facility are carried out with UI-SimCor. The maintenance of the program is being carried out at the University of Toronto.  
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Colorado State University, U.S.
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

​Professor Hussam Mahmoud
In collaboration with Professor Kwon, Professor Mahmoud's research group is using UI-SimCor and NICON to run hybrid simulation of a steel structured subjected to fire load.
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San Francisco State University, U.S.
School of Engineering

​​Professor Cheng Chen
Integration of numerical models with the laboratory equipment in San Francisco State University 
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Western New England University, U.S.
Civil and Environmental Engineering

Professor Moochul Shin
Development of educational hybrid simulation equipment using UT-SIM framework
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Florida State University, U.S.
Civil and Environmental Engineering

Professor Sungmoon Jung
Hybrid simulation of structures subjected to wind load 
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University of Central Florida, U.S.
Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering Department

Professor Kevin Mackie
Hybrid and dynamic tests of reinforced concrete columns to identify inherent damping characteristic
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Professor Michele Calvi
IUSS, Pavia and EUCENTRE, Italy


Simulation of the Seismic performance of advanced retrofit techniques for RC Frame structures
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École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Resilient Steel Structures Laboratory

.​Professor Dimitrios Lignos
Planning for distributed hybrid simulation between EPFL and U of T
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University of Patras, Greece
Department of Civil Engineering, STRULAB (Structures Laboratory)

Professor Stathis Bousias
The STRULAB team of the University of Patras has employed the UI-SimCor platfrorm for hybrid simulation studies: applications include SSI issues on bridges as well as for participating in an inter-continental distributed hybrid simulation. 
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Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
School of Civil Engineering

Professor Vassilis Papanikolaou
Collaboration on the development of sensing and data acquisition system for shrinkage and creep tests. The experiments was to characterize the shrinkage and creep behaviour of  concrete material in the environment of a nuclear power plant.
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University of Sannio, Italy
Department of Civil Engineering

Professor Luigi di Sarno
Participation in an inter-continental distributed hybrid simulation. University of Toronto hosted Professor di Sarno's students to train them on UT-SIM framework. 
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University of Canterbury, Christchurch, NZ
Civil and Natural Resources Engineering    

Professor Tim Sullivan
Simulation of the Seismic Performance of Buildings Retrofitted using the Gap Inclined Brace (GIB) System. 
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IIT-Bombay, Mumbai, India
Faculty of Civil Engineering  

Professor Ravi Sinha 
Seismic performance of novel Seismic Isolation Layers (SIPs) for mass implementation in Indian Urban environments 


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Hanyang University, Korea
Department of Civil Engineering, Geo System Research Group

Professor Duhee Park
Professor Park's research group is collaborating with Professor Kwon at University of Toronto to develop a simulation method for underground tunnel structure using the UT-SIM framework. The main objective is to assess seismic performance of tunnels realistically by integrating advanced structural analysis software (e.g. VecTor programs) with nonlinear soil material model in OpenSees. 
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Korean Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology
Fire Research Institute 

Dr. Yeo
The fire research institute is planning to carry out full scale hybrid simulation of a column subjected to temperature load. The column will be tested in a large scale gas furnace with servo-controlled loading device. 
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Tongji University, China
College of Civil Engineering

Professor Minjuan He
Simulation of the Seismic performance of novel green and resilient timber/steel damped structures for mass implementation in China. 
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S-FRAME Software Inc

Marinos C. Stylianou, Ph.D. CEO 
University of Toronto is working with S-Frame to integrate substructure modules in UT-SIM framework in the analysis/design software. In a near future, an engineer will be able to design a building following a conventional design approach, and easily evaluate overall performance through integrated simulations. 
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