In order to avoid unexpected damage of structural specimens in the test, at the beginning, a signal with small amplitude is adopted to input the shake table device to gain the transfer function and corresponding drive signal, and then a strong earthquake output can be reproduced by amplifying the drive signal proportionally. However, as …

PEER Shake Table Facility 20 ft x 20 ft table size Still the largest 6 DOF shake table in the US Can test structures, weighing 100,000 lbs, to horizontal accelerations of 1.5 g +/- 5 in. horizontal displacement capacity +/- 2 in. vertical displacement capacity +/- 40 in./sec velocity capacity 38

By Gary Robbins San Diego Union-Tribune May 10, 2023 10:11 PM PT A 10-story tower mostly made of wood withstood a …

Beneath the table are mechanical devices called actuators that work together to simulate an earthquake. Typically, two actuators shake the table along the X axis, two shake the table along the Y axis, and four shake the tables vertically along the Z axis. The tables can also rotate independently along each of these three axes.

In 2010, Wang ( Wang et al., 2010) reported a real-time hybrid testing system using shaking table. The upper substructure was treated as the experimental substructure and the lower part was the numerical substructure. The shaking table was utilized to realize the boundary compatibility.

UCSD's $5.9 million table is hydraulically driven with six degrees of freedom and enough power to vibrate at 6 feet per second with a maximum force of 4.2 g—that's enough to accurately simulate ...

The Shake Table's motor is a 400 W high-powered 3-phase brushless DC actuator. The motor contains an embedded high-resolution encoder that allows the position of the stage to be measured with an effective linear resolution of 1.55 μm. An analog accelerometer mounted on the Shake Table II platform measures the acceleration of the stage directly.

Shaking table is important experimental equipment to carry out antiseismic research. Research, conclusion, comparison, and analysis concerning the developmental history, constructional situation, performance index, control algorithm, and experimental technique of the internal shaking table were reviewed and compared. Such functional …

Table 6.2: Shake Table Tests Designations Designation Frequency (Hz) Amplitude (g) Duration (s) Test 1 1.5 0.15 20 Test 2 3 0.3 20 Test 3 3 0.45 20 Test 4 3 0.67 20 Test 5 3 1.0 20 Figure 6.6: Photograph of Block Cracking after 0.67 g Test at 3 Hz The separation of the abutment from the backwall and the minor block damage to the side walls that ...

But in this case researchers are pushing the limit of structural height, erecting the building 64 feet above the shake table platen. The largest building of this construction type tested before today on a shake …

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2.1.2 Numerically disturbed shake table experimentation. According to Eq. 3, the shake table control in actual experiments is disturbed by the inertial force of a structure placed on its top, and its force is proportional to the mass of the structure.This indicates the necessity of a structure with sufficient mass to reproduce the disturbance in the actual …

Replicating acceleration time histories with high accuracy on shaking table platforms is still a challenging task. The complex interference between the components of the system, the inherent nonlinearities, and the coupling effect between the specimen and the shaking table are among other reasons that most affect the control performance. In …

And the only place we can do a 10-story, full-scale test of our design is NHERI's outdoor shake table at UCSD.". The TallWood project was the first building to …

San Diego, Calif., Sept. 24, 2015 -- The University of California at San Diego has received a $5.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to run the world's largest outdoor shake table for the next five years. The table, which can carry structures weighing up to 2,000 tons, can replicate the ground motions of most of the ...

This paper presents a series of large scale liquefaction-induced lateral spreading shake table tests conducted at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). A total of 7 different experiments are illustrated with varying heights, inclinations, soil profiles, pile material, and cross-sections. The available capabilities discussed are part ...

This shake table is capable to generate only sine and swept sine signals with maximum displacement of ± 25 mm unidirectionally along horizontal direction. Swept sine motion is generated in the present study through mechanically operated motor system. Range of frequency of steady state motion within 1 to 10 Hz having peak amplitude of …

Hundreds of individual shake table tests, under a range of ground motions covering relevant intensity parameters (PGA and PGV/PGA), are conducted on an individual rock specimen. The overturning results of an individual specimen are analyzed in concert with the results of corresponding distinct element method (DEM) models incorporating varying ...

The shake table was designed by researchers in the UC San Diego Department of Structural Engineering in the early 2000s to be able to move in three directions. Specifically, the design called for the 10 actuators, or pistons, required to reproduce earthquake ground motions in six degrees of freedom. But based on the …

The shake table test is one of the preferred techniques used to understand the dynamic response of a structure. However, due to the limited number of facilities available to perform such tests and their expensiveness, researchers often must rely on numerical models validated with the results of the static tests only. Moreover, most …

A medium sized shake table located in the campus (Powell) lab and a large sized shake table located 15 km off-campus at the Englekirk Structural Engineering Center. The on-campus shake table has a foot-print of 4.90 m by 3.10 m with a 45-ton payload (Magenes 1989). Specifications of this medium sized shake table include a stroke of …

The PEER Earthquake Shaking Table, dedicated in 1972, was the first of its kind and at 20′ x 20′ is still the largest multidirectional shaking table in the US. The shaking table is …

San Diego, Calif., Sept. 24, 2015 -- The University of California at San Diego has received a $5.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to run the world's …

The results of a shake table study of the efficiency of a seismic base isolation using a layer of natural stone pebbles are presented. Models of stiff and medium-stiff buildings were tested. Case studies were conducted with the foundation of model on the rigid base and on four different layers of pebbles (thin and thick layer with small and …

The shake table exhibit envisioned promoting earthquake awareness and preparedness for Californians by merging earthquake science and art in an innovative, interactive display. …

The shake-table is a uni-axial earthquake ground motion simulator (MOOG n. L081-324-011) with maximum payload of 2 ton, usable surface of 1500 mm by1500 mm, and ± 200 mm strike. The concrete block was 80 × 80 × 30 cm and was fabricated with a concrete mix with nominal characteristic compression strength f ck = 20 MPa. Cylinder …

The shake table was originally designed in 2001-02 to reproduce all the directions of ground motion in an earthquake, but it was built with the capability of only one horizontal direction of motion due to budget constraints. In 2009, the Jacobs School of Engineering at UC San Diego received $2 million from the Department of Energy to add ...

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Figure 4. Instructional Shake Table with Test Prototype Structure Figure 5. Seismographs of Northridge Earthquake recorded on Jan. 17, 1994 APPROPRIATE COURSES The instructional shake tables are to be used to illustrate a series of hand-on experiments in Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering. The experiments are designed to provide

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 …