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Built Environment Data: Experiments is a service maintained and hosted by the University of Pavia in collaboration with the EUCENTRE Foundation , Iuss Pavia and with technical support from the GEM Foundation to provide open access to experimental test data on the performance of buildings and infrastructure. This data has been generated by many experimental tests in Europe and can be used for the validation and calibration of numerical models required to assess the vulnerability of buildings and infrastructure. Users can easily search our database of experimental test data using the Explore Datasets page. Web services are also available for automated searching of the database. We accept open experimental test data from the community, to which we will assign a Creative Commons CC-BY license and a Digital Object Identifier (DOI). Please contact us here for more information on how to contribute your data. We adhere to the Data Policy of the European Plate Observing System (EPOS) .

The Built Environment Data platform for experimental test data in earthquake engineering

Davit Shahnazaryan, Rui Pinho, Helen Crowley, Gerard J. O'Reilly

2024

Since the 1960s, global interest in such testing has grown, supported by numerous national and international funding initiatives. This has resulted in valuable data that has improved understanding of structural behaviour, spurred the development of new mitigation solutions and helped validate numerical models critical for simulation studies. These advancements have enabled engineers to improve building codes and guidelines, and have allowed risk modellers to more accurately assess risk. With advanced computational resources, integrating experimental findings into broader initiatives becomes crucial. This article discusses a recent European initiative, Built Environment Data (BED) (https://builtenvdata.eu/), which currently offers a platform to store and manage data from experimental research, embodied carbon and simulated design services. BED aims to serve the European Plate Observing System (EPOS) distributed research infrastructure as one of its Thematic Core Services (TCSs). This paper focuses on the Experiments service for managing experimental data, compares it to similar global efforts and outlines the specific requirements and system architecture, including the web services and datasets currently offered. The Experiments service is expected to significantly support engineers worldwide by making experimental research and data more findable, accessible, inter-operable and re-usable.

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