Laboratory
Resilient Steel Structures Laboratory (RESSLab)
ENAC-IT4Research contributions
Web app re-design and migration in up-to-date web technologies.
Technologies
VueJS, eCharts
RESSLab-hub is an open-science web application developed in 2021 that gives the engineering and research communities open access to thousands of experimental datapoints dating back to the 1970s on structural steel materials and components. The application also includes state-of-the-art interactive modelling capabilities to prognosticate their nonlinear behavior. It was developed by EPFL’s Resilient Steel Structures Laboratory (RESSLab), headed by Associate Professor Dimitrios Lignos. The web-based application is designed to be modular and scalable. “We can easily upload the latest advancements in experimental earthquake engineering,” says Lignos. “That provides an opportunity to make the unique data and knowledge generated in ENAC’s high-quality experimental facilities, as well as data from around the world, accessible. We believe RESSLab-hub will make a significant contribution to benchmarking and minimizing the earthquake risk of steel and composite-steel concrete structures.”
Data can be downloaded easily from the application so that researchers, engineers, students and educators can validate their predictive models for seismic risk assessment and contribute to the advancement of design standards.
The technical-support staff at ENAC-IT4Research helped develop the platform, especially the visualization features that enable users to generate customized graphs, spot interesting trends and share data with other users.
The research papers associated with the primary modules of the web-based application are all publicly available. “Such an endeavor is by far the most comprehensive in the field,” says Lignos.