Excursion to the university’s completely gutted building at Coudraystraße 7
As part of the Natural Hazards and Risks in Structural Engineering master’s degree program (NHRE), the Chair of Advanced Structures (KTW) and Earthquake Damage Analysis Center (EDAC) at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar organized an excursion to the university’s completely gutted building at Coudraystraße 7.
Students from the first and the second year of NHRE were invited to see the instrumentation of the building and how the dynamic properties of the structure are extracted from ambient noise vibration (e.g. wind and traffic), and dynamic force excitation with imbalance vibration exciter. The techniques for the extraction of dynamic properties from recorded signals will be discussed as part of the Seismic Monitoring course for the first year students, and the students will be given the opportunity to get hands-on experience with the collected data.
The building was instrumented with Geophones, Lennartz seismometers and Raspberry Shake seismometers (RS4D). The use of the rather low-cost RS4D seismometer in part of earthquake risk studies was developed as part of the TURNkey, an EU funded project where EDAC and KTW are the contributing partners.