Abstract Recently, the reinforced cement concrete (RCC) frame has been one of most commonly used structural systems for buildings in high seismic region due to its inherent earthquake-resistant property. However, there is still a deficiency understanding RCC building system dynamic behaviour during significant earthquakes. A 1/4th scaled framed structure tested on shake table present study. The...

⎯ Hazard mitigation and structural dynamics have been important additions to the undergraduate civil engineering curriculum. UCIST (University Consortium on Instructional Shake Tables) has worked toward improving educational opportunities in this area for nearly 10 years. For the past 8 years, the US National Science Foundation has sponsored a cyberenvironment project referred to as the Network...

Lessons from recent earthquakes have provided a tough reality check of the traditional seismic design approach and technologies, highlighting urgent need for paradigm shift performance-based criteria objectives toward low-damage philosophy technologies whole building system. Modern society is asking “earthquake proof” resilient buildings that are able to withstand events without compromising th...

The destruction of Amatrice and the surrounding villages in Central Italy after 2016 seismic sequence was so impressive that engineers, authorities local communities started sharing common feeling historical stone masonry buildings were too below current safety standards. severe damage caused by earthquakes led to a general distrust traditional building techniques, leading conclusion there is n...

Internet technologies are employed to allow real-time video monitoring, control, and execution of bench-top shake-table experiments. Structural models of relevance to education in dynamics and earthquake engineering can be tested remotely over the internet on a 24-h, 7-day (24/7) basis. The underlying elements of experiment tele-observation and tele-operation/control are incorporated in a newly...

Small-scale, instructional shake tables, such as the UCIST shake table, are used at many colleges and universities to provide educational and research experiences in seismic behavior of structural systems. This paper describes the development of a physical model and associated educational materials that demonstrate the seismic behavior of shear walls used in cold-formed steel (CFS) building sys...

NEES (the George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation) is a national, networked resource for next-generation experimental earthquake engineering research and education in the United States. The goal of NEES is to support open access to and use of NEES’s facilities and data by the earthquake engineering community. The system infrastructure to support the NEES activities is...

The shake table test is one of the preferred techniques used to understand dynamic response a structure. However, due limited number facilities available perform such tests and their expensiveness, researchers often must rely on numerical models validated with results static only. Moreover, most research papers concerning lack details how were planned executed. This paper explains steps for pre...