# Discovering OpenSees - Introduction to OpenFrescoExpress
This seminar will occur August 20, 2012
Register for the seminar:
- August 20 at 9:00 am Pacific Time registration link 1
- August 20 at 5:00 pm Pacific Time registration link 2
OpenFrescoExpress
is a self-contained software package, including an easy-to-use graphical
user interface (GUI), which facilitates hybrid testing of systems having
up to two degrees of freedom. OpenFrescoExpress addresses the
needs of a wide range of users including:
- laboratory staff and research students learning about hybrid
simulation and starting to use this experimental testing method.
- staff and students at laboratories that regularly use hybrid
simulation but desire a tool for quick demonstration of the hybrid
simulation testing method.
- researchers who are conducting simple tests and would like to take
advantage of a graphical user interface that quickly and easily displays
useful real-time test data.
- graduate students and researchers who are not at a laboratory but
wish to run the software as a pure simulation tool to learn more about
hybrid simulation and how it works.
The seminar will provide an introduction to the hybrid simulation
testing technique and illustrate how OpenFrescoExpress can be
used to graphically setup a hybrid model and execute a hybrid
simulation. The following topics will be covered:
- Introduction to hybrid simulation
- Downloading and installing OpenFrescoExpress
- Example 1: building your first hybrid model
- Simulated versus real controllers
- Error monitors: assessing the goodness of a test
- Example 2: two-story building
- Resources for more complicated hybrid tests
- Summary and conclusions
PPT presentation of the seminar can be found
here:
Video of the seminar can be found here: