Earthquake Simulator

Clients

Techstack

Purpose

You can't study how a structure behaves in an earthquake by waiting for a real one. Engineering students needed a bench-scale rig that reproduces seismic shaking on demand, controlled, repeatable, and measurable, so they could watch how designs respond.

Description

We built a programmable shake platform that generates tremors of adjustable intensity, driven by a control program that runs each simulation, logs it with timestamps, and reads back the actual vibration produced by an onboard motion sensor. Closing that loop, commanded shaking on one side and measured response on the other, turns a demo into a real testing instrument. It's a compact piece of hardware-and-software engineering that makes an abstract force something students can dial in and observe.