This is the web site which descibes the former Fast Hybrid Testing laboratory (FHT), located at the University of Colorado in Boulder which was for five years a node of the George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES)

Many information are by now obsolete, but are kept for reference.

Questions pertaining to the FHT, or the tests subsequently performed by Saouma, or about Mercury, should be directly addressed to saouma at colorado edu

. The FHT laboratory is open for use as a national laboratory for researchers and for contract testing by private companies across the country who are interested in conducting real-time (or pseudo-dynamic) hybrid simulations of structures subjected to earthquakes, wind, and other extreme loadings.

The FHT laboratory specializes in real-time hybrid simulations. In this innovative simulation paradigm a substructure is physically tested in the laboratory floor while a complementary one is numerically analyzed by a finite element. Both simulations are tightly coupled and run at increments of 1/1,024 of a second. The FHT laboratory includes extensive computational and archiving facilities, and the laboratory supports interactive remote teleparticipation of experimental research.

Take a look at our current project!

Click here to view a video presentation explaining the Fast Hybrid Testing paradigm.

Click here to view slides and presentations from the most recent on-site workshop detailing the Fast Hybrid Testing method.