University of Nevada-Reno to Demo Virtual Earthquake Engineering Laboratory.

Byline: University of Nevada, Reno

RENO, Nev., Nov. 14 (AScribe Newswire) -- For the first time, the world's earthquake engineering community will see what it's like to conduct experiments through a real-time, Internet2, collaborative laboratory when researchers demonstrate an early version of the George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) infrastructure, or NEESgrid, at the University of Nevada, Reno today (Nov. 14) from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

"This will be the world's first opportunity to see all the components of NEESgrid in operation," said Ian Buckle, director of the university's Center for Civil Engineering Earthquake …