UCSD, PCA & NEES BLIND PREDICTION CONTEST
UCSD, PCA & NEES BLIND PREDICTION CONTEST
UCSD, PCA & NEES BLIND PREDICTION CONTEST
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Basic Contest Rules<br />
• Goal – predict responses by analysis - compare with measured<br />
• 3 Categories of teams – Winner <strong>PCA</strong> Award of $ 2500 per team<br />
1. Undergraduates<br />
2. Researchers/Academics<br />
3. Engineering Practitioners<br />
• Predict responses for 4 levels of earthquakes – responses<br />
included displacements, drifts, shears, moments, accelerations<br />
throughout the structures and vertical strains near base.<br />
• Entries judged by determining error in each type of response<br />
Lowest error awarded points. Sum points. Largest sum winner<br />
• The entries were handled confidentially – folks at <strong>UCSD</strong> did not<br />
know who submitted what entries. Relative ranking confidential.