2. SHAKE TABLE TEST PROGRAM. The test building consisted of a cast-in-place five-story reinforced concrete structure with moment-resisting frames providing lateral resistance in the direction of shaking (east-west direction) (Figure 2a).The design utilized ground motions developed for a site in Southern California, with the maximum considered …
Shake-table testing of 2-story steel framed building with self-centering modular panels and slit steel plate walls. Author links open overlay panel Gongling Chu a b, Wei Wang a b, ... The shake test results show that the structure response under frequent ground motions meets the inter-story drift limit given in Chinese code - GB 50011–2010 ...
Figure 2 shows the test struct ure mounted on the shake table. More details More details about the test structure can be found in Pana giotou and Restrepo (2009a) and Panagiotou et al.
In July 2009, a full-scale mid-rise light-frame wood apartment building was subjected to a series of earthquakes at the world's largest shake table in Miki, Japan.The test program consisted of two major phases: the building tested in the first phase consisted of a single-story steel special moment frame (SMF) with six stories of wood on top, and …
In order to represent an actual process of structural damage in an actual seismic event and provide a calibration test for numerical studies, a shake table collapse test of a typical multi-story RC frame structural model, which is scaled from a nearly collapsed building in the 2010 Ms 7.1 Yushu earthquake in China, was performed.
tables is presented to enhance the acceleration tracking performance of shake tables ii. ABSTRACT to be used in substructure shake table testing. ... 4.1 Properties and dynamic characteristics of the 5-story structure. . . . 79 4.2 RMS di erences for simulation responses under di erent earthquake ... 3.7 A block diagram of the substructure ...
This paper presents the results of two shake table tests on a seven-story building which consisted of a first-story steel special moment frame (SMF) and six …
A full-scale 7-story reinforced concrete building slice was tested on the unidirectional University of California–San Diego Network for Earthquake Engineering …
2.1 Design of the prototype RC frame. The test specimen is a 1/2-scale two-story, two-bay RC frame structure, as shown in Fig. 1.Its corresponding prototype structure is a RC frame designed according to the Chinese building codes (Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development of P. R. China 2010).The geometric and mechanical …
Simulation of shake‐table test for a two‐story low‐damage concrete wall building. A. Gu, Ying Zhou, R. Henry, Yiqiu Lu, G. Rodgers. Engineering. Structural Control and Health Monitoring. 2022. To support the development of low‐damage concrete structures, a system‐level shake‐table test of a two‐story concrete wall building ...
Performance Outdoor Shake Table (LHPOST). • The primary objective of the test is to support the development of a seismic resilient lateral system for tall wood buildings. • Uses post-tensioned rocking walls built from cross -laminated timber panels. • Test will validate that the performance of the structure meets the design specifications. 3
In 2010, a full-scale, 4-story precast concrete building was tested on the E-Defense shake table. The lateral-force-resisting system of the building included unbonded posttensioned (UPT) concrete walls in one direction and bonded posttensioned frames in the orthogonal direction.
This article describes a shake table test program that was conducted to investigate the seismic behavior of a half‐scale two‐story gravity‐controlled rocking braced steel frame building.
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Abstract. The capability of the wave method for structural health monitoring, based on fitting a layered Timoshenko beam by waveform inversion of impulse …
Shake-Table Test of a Full-Scale 7-Story Building Slice. Phase I: Rectangular Wall Marios Panagiotou, M.ASCE1; José I. Restrepo, M.ASCE2; and Joel P. Conte, M.ASCE3 …
This paper is a companion to "Displacement-Based Method of Analysis for Regular Reinforced-Concrete Wall Buildings: Application to a Full-Scale 7-Story Building Slice Tested at UC-San Diego" and presents key results obtained from a full-scale 7-story reinforced concrete building slice built and tested on the George E. Brown Jr. Network for …
The test building was subjected to a series of 13 earthquake ground motions and reached a maximum roof drift of 3.85%. Following shake table tests at the DBE and MCE levels, the building was inspected and repaired by replacing the damaged energy absorbing components.
University of California, San Diego. This paper presents the shake-table tests of a full-scale, 3-story, reinforced concrete masonry structure. The structure was a special reinforced masonry shear ...
Experimental results are presented from a dynamic test on a full-scale 4-story precast concrete building that utilized unbonded posttensioned (UPT) walls in one direction and bonded posttensioned concrete frames in the orthogonal direction.
This paper is one of five within a session discussing the findings from a full-scale, five-story building test program conducted at the NEES-UCSD Large High Performance Outdoor Shake. This paper focuses on the pre-test simulation of the test building with the objective of predicting its seismic response and thereby; (i) guiding the …
(2011), which discusses the displacement-based method of The test addressed the dynamic response of the building, includ- analysis used for this building, and presents key results of Phase I ing the interaction …
This paper mainly addresses the validity and verification of our current code-based knowledge through the utilization of test data of benchmark structure in Japan. A full-scale, four-story reinforced concrete building within the 2010 E-Defense test program is revisited to assess the capability of the current state of practice for the prediction of the …
To investigate the seismic performance of buckling-restrained braces under the earthquake action, the shaking table test with a two-story 1/4 scale model is carried out for the ordinary pure steel frame and the buckling-restrained bracing steel frame with low-yield-point steel as the core plate. The failure modes, dynamic characteristics, …
A resilient steel braced frame with novel RVFBs was investigated through a shaking table test in this study. The 1/3 scaled three-story steel frame consisted of one braced frame to resist the seismic force and two gravity frames to support the mass weight. Pinned connections were designed and guaranteed that the RVFBs were the standalone ...
A shake table test pro gram on a slice of a sev en-story bearing wall building built at full scale pro vided a unique oppor tunity to take a closer look at seismic design methods for anchors ...
A shake-table test of a 2-story full-scale low-damage concrete wall building was conducted on the multifunctional shake-table array at Tongji University to validate the system-level dynamic response of this type of building. The test building implemented state-of-art low-damage structural systems, including post-tensioned (PT) precast concrete ...
A 10-story building made of cross-laminated timber will be tested on one of the world's two largest earthquake simulators at the University of California San Diego this spring. Known as the Tallwood project, it is the tallest full-scale building ever to be constructed and tested on an earthquake simulator, or shake table.
The world's largest outdoor shake table, which measures how structures perform during earthquakes, is undergoing a makeover. With the help of a $16.3 million grant from the National Science Foundation, the University of California, San Diego's Large High-Performance Outdoor Shake Table, known as LHPOST, will move from a uniaxial …
Part of the work was the seismic response evaluation of a full-scale two-story 15.2 m × 7.0 ... In this study, a full-scale shake-table test was conducted utilizing a 2-story steel moment frame to evaluate the seismic performance of access floors (or raised floors). A total of four access floor specimens were fabricated that are typically used ...
2.1 Description of the test building The constructed two-storey building on the shake-table prior to testing is shown in Figure . T he building was designed in
This paper is a companion to "Displacement-Based Method of Analysis for Regular Reinforced-Concrete Wall Buildings: Application to a Full-Scale 7-Story Building …
This paper is a companion to "Displacement-Based Method of Analysis for Regular Reinforced-Concrete Wall Buildings: Application to a Full-Scale 7-Story Building Slice Tested at UC–San Diego" and presents key results obtained from a full-scale 7-story reinforced concrete building slice built and tested on the George E. Brown Jr. Network for …
A blind analysis contest on a half-scale shaking table test for a 7-story RC building was held by NCREE in Taiwan in 2019 to contribute to the development of numerical seismic analyses and enhance modeling techniques for RC structures. Finite element analysis. Finite element analyses were conducted in two steps.
Published May 9, 2023 at 5:56 PM PDT. Listen • 1:10. 10-story wood building passes earthquake test. Watch on. The building swayed as it would have in the 1999 Jiji earthquake in Taiwan. That ...
The shake table test conducted by Li et al. [3] on three full-scale two-storey high-strength CFS buildings represents the first experimental study to investigate the system-level seismic performance of CFS buildings. ... shake table tests were conducted on a 2:3 scaled six-story CFS frame-framing shear wall structure (CFSF-FSWS) using ...
Panagiotou, M., J. I. Restrepo and J. P. Conte, "Shake table test of a 7 story full scale reinforced concrete structural wall building slice - Phase II: T-wall section," Report No …