Patrick N. Laplace
Current Affiliation
Research Assistant Professor
Laboratory Manager at the Large Scale Structures Laboratory
Contact Information
Mailing address:
University of Nevada, Reno
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering/0258
Reno, NV 89557-0258
T: (775) 784-8080
F: (775) 784-1390
laplace@unr.edu
Office location:
Harry Reid Engineering Laboratory (HREL), Room 105 B-C
Education
| YEAR | DEGREE | UNIVERSITY |
| 2002 | Ph.D. | University of Nevada, Reno |
| 1999 | M.S. | University of Nevada, Reno |
| 1996 | B.S. | Virginia Tech |
Research Interests
- Servo Hydraulic Control and Simulation
- Non-structural component seismic qualification testing
- Data acquisition and instrumentation systems
- Seismic and vibration simulation systems
Recent Publications
- Thoen, Bradford K. , Laplace, Patrick N., Offline Tuning of Shake Tables, Proceedings, 13th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, 2004.
- Laplace, Patrick N., Pekcan, Gokhan, Itani, Ahmad M., An Overview of Shake-Table Characteristics used for Seismic Qualification Testing, Proceedings, ATC-29-2, 2003.