NEESit & PEER announce:

The OpenSees User Workshop

The OpenSees Developer Workshop

The OpenSees Developer Sysmposium

14-16 August 2006

UC Berkeley, Richmond Field Station

The OpenSees User Workshop – The annual one-day workshop on how to use OpenSees. The workshop is intended for both beginning and intermediate users.

The OpenSees Developer Workshop – A one-day workshop for beginning and intermediate developers. The workshop will focus on how to introduce a new material and a new element into the OpenSees framework with hands-on exercises.

The OpenSees Developer Symposium – A one-day symposium with presentations and discussions of on-going development of the OpenSees framework. Presentations will be made by the OpenSees team as well as by current developers of OpenSees.

OpenSees User Workshop Monday, August 14, 2006 8:00am – 5:00pm
8:00 – 8:15	Welcome and Introduction to OpenSees & NEESit Simulation
		– Gregory Fenves, UC Berkeley
8:15 – 9:00	Getting Started with OpenSees
		– Frank McKenna, UC Berkeley
9:00 – 9:15	Introduction to the OpenSees User Resources
		– Silvia Mazzoni, UC Berkeley
9:15 – 9:30	Break
9:30 – 10:30	Structural Models I(Parameter Definition, Nodes, Constraints, Materials, Sections & Elements, Block & Region, Geometric Transformation)
		– Silvia Mazzoni, UC Berkeley
10:30 – 11:00	Structural Models II(Recorders, Loads)
		– Silvia Mazzoni, UC Berkeley
11:00 – 12:00	Introduction to Analysis Commands (System, Integrator, Algorithm, Numberer Analyze)
		– Frank McKenna, UC Berkeley
12:00 – 1:00	Lunch
1:00 – 1:30	When Things Go Wrong: Modifying the Script in the Event of Non-Convergence
		– Frank McKenna, UC Berkeley
1:30 – 2:00	Geotechnical and Solids in OpenSees
		– Boris Jeremic, UC Davis
2:00 – 2:30	Structural Example – Reinforced-Concrete Frame: Building the Model
		– Silvia Mazzoni, UC Berkeley
2:30 – 2:45	Break
2:45 – 3:15	Structural Example – Reinforced-Concrete Frame: Static, Cyclic and Dynamic Analyses, Multiple-Support Excitation
		– Frank McKenna, UC Berkeley
3:15 – 3:40	Parameter Studies Using OpenSees
		– Silvia Mazzoni, UC Berkeley
3:40 – 4:10	Geotechnical and Solids Examples
		– Boris Jeremic, UC Davis
4:10 – 4:30	OpenSees Navigator
		– Andreas Shellenberg, UC Berkeley
4:30 – 4:45	OpenSees & NEESit
		-- Holly Hervey, NEESit
4:45 – 5:00	Questions and Wrap-up Discussion
		– Gregory Fenves, UC Berkeley

OpenSees Developer Workshop Tuesday, August 15, 2006 Required: laptop and installed softare 8:00am – 4:00pm
8:00 – 8:30	Installed-software check (make sure softare is installed properly)
		– Frank McKenna, UC Berkeley
8:30 – 9:15	· Welcome to OpenSees Developer’s Workshop · Introduction to object-oriented programming
		– Gregory Fenves, UC Berkeley
9:15 – 10:00	Introduction to C++ programming
		– Frank McKenna, UC Berkeley
10:00-10:15	Break
10:15 – 11:00	Introduction to OpenSees software architecture: Model builder, recorders, domain & analysis
		– Frank McKenna, UC Berkeley
11:00 – 11:30	Uniaxial material interface
		– Frank McKenna, UC Berkeley
11:30 – 12:30	Implementation exercise of a uniaxial material: Participants will develop new material, add material into OpenSees and test it using a tk script
		– Frank McKenna, UC Berkeley
12:30 – 1:00	WORKING LUNCH
1:00 – 1:30	Review of Implementation exercise for uniaxial material
		– Frank McKenna, UC Berkeley
1:30 – 2:00	Domain classes & how they interact
		– Gregory Fenves, UC Berkeley
2:00 – 2:30	Element interface
		– Frank McKenna, UC Berkeley
2:30 – 3:00	Analysis classes & how they interact. Trace through what happens when ‘analyze’ is invoked in the interpreter. When element methods, ‘update,’ ‘commit,’ ‘getTangent,’ and ‘getResistingForce’ are invoked
		– Frank McKenna, UC Berkeley
3:00 – 3:15	BREAK
3:15 – 4:00	Implementation of a new element – set up exercise as homework: Participants will develop new element and add element into OpenSees
		– Frank McKenna, UC Berkeley

OpenSees Developer Symposium Wednesday, August 16, 2006 9:00am – 4:15pm
9:00 – 9:15	Introduction and Symposium Goals
		– Gregory Fenves, UC Berkeley
9:15 – 9:45	Features and Capabilities of version 1.7.2; Current Status of OpenSees; Development Process
		– Frank McKenna, UC Berkeley
9:45 – 10:15	Parameter Updating
		– Michael H. Scott, Oregon State University
10:15 – 10:30	Break
10:30 – 10:50	Cyclic uniaxial material model for reinforcing steel bars
		– Jon Mohle, UC Davis
10:50 – 11:10	Modeling Instability of Beam-Column Elements
		– Patxi Uriz, Exponent
11:10 – 11:30	Performance Modeling Strategies for Modern Reinforced Concrete Bridge Columns
		– Michel Berry, U Washington
11:30 – 12:00	Development of Modeling Tools
		– Silvia Mazzoni, UC Berkeley
12:00 – 1:00	Lunch
1:00 – 1:20	Collapse Simulation of RC Frame Buildings
		– Curt Haselton, Stanford University
1:20 – 1:40	SFSI Implementations in OpenSees
		– Christine Goulet, UC Los Angeles
1:40 – 2:00	Frictional 3D Beam-to-Solid Contact Formulation for OpenSees
		-- Peter Mackenzie-Helnwein, University of Washington
2:00 – 2:30	Advanced Geotechnical Capabilities of OpenSees
		– Boris Jeremic, UC Davis
2:30 – 2:40	Break
2:40 – 2:50	OpenSees, VEES, and XML: Visualization and Model Archiving
		– Alisa Neeman, UC Santa Cruz
2:50 – 3:10	A User-Friendly Finite-Element Pile Analysis Interface
		Jinchi Lu (UC San Diego) Zhaohui Yang (URS Corporation)
3:10 – 3:30	OpenSees & Hybrid Simulation
		– Andreas Schellenberg, UC Berkeley
3:30 – 4:15	Wrap-Up Discussion and Closing Remarks
		-- Pedro Arduino & Peter Mackenzie-Helnwein, University of Washington – Boris Jeremic, UC Davis

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