19WCSI is offering a variety of technical tour opportunities for conference attendees.
All tours are limited to maximum number of 30 people, and advance sign-up is required.
Technical Tours TT1 and TT2 cost $30 / person.
Technical Tours TT1 and TT2 will depart from the conference Registration Desk (Kerr Lobby, MLK Building, 3rd Floor) at 12:30 on Friday 19 September and return to the UC Berkeley campus at approximately 17:30.
The factory tours to Earthquake Protection Systems on Wednesday 17th, Thursday 18th and Friday 19th September are complimentary, with EPS kindly covering all transportation costs.
TT1 – San Francisco Bay Area Bridges with Protective Systems
The tour will take a scenic route around the northern part of San Francisco Bay to visit the most iconic bridges in the region, including the Benicia-Martinez Bridge (large friction pendulum bearings), Richmond-San Rafael Bridge (LRBs), the Golden Gate Bridge (LRBs) and GGB Visitor’s Center, and the West and East crossings of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge (West – viscous dampers ; East – shear links in self-anchored suspension span tower).
TT2 – Isolated and Damped Buildings
The tour will visit two seismically-isolated buildings in San Francisco along with one building under construction that uses fluid viscous dampers. Participants will have the opportunity to access under the isolated buildings for close-up views of the isolation devices.
More details to be come in the next few days… watch this space.
Factory Tours of Earthquake Protection Systems
Tours to Earthquake Protection Systems’ manufacturing facility in Vallejo, California, will take place on Wednesday 17 September, Thursday 18 September and Friday 19 September. All EPS tours will depart from the conference Registration Desk (Kerr Lobby, MLK Building, 3rd Floor) at 12:30 and return to the UC Berkeley campus at 15:30.
Manufacturing Facility and Large Triple Pendulum Isolator Testing
Earthquake Protection Systems’ Vallejo, California factory is located about 30 miles north of the UC Berkeley campus and 19WCSI. The tour of the facility will last approximately 1.5 hours, starting with a 15-minute presentation followed by the tour of the factory and ending with the opportunity to witness the dynamic testing of a large Triple Pendulum Isolator (+/- 1 m horizontal displacement) in EPS’ state-of-the-art 7000 ton, +/- 2 m capacity Dynamic Isolator Test Machine.
