UC Berkeley Web Feature. Shake table's quake simulation to be featured on NBC's "Dateline" By Liese Greensfelder, Media Relations | 19 May 2006. BERKELEY – If you sit down this Sunday evening to watch NBC's "Dateline" show, you may want to fasten your seatbelt. The popular news program will be featuring UC Berkeley's earthquake simulator in an …
VIDEO: Quicktime video with UC Berkeley civil engineering assistant professor Khalid Mosalam describing the December 12 test.. Over the years, thousands of woodframe, multi-unit residential buildings have been constructed with tuck-under parking at the ground level, which can create a soft story configuration that may lead to severe damage and even collapse …
PEER celebrated the 50th Anniversary of the UC Berkeley shaking table on June 24, 2022, at the Earthquake Simulator Laboratory facility at Richmond Field Station. Over 80 researchers, practitioners, former and current …
UC Berkeley Web Feature 'Dateline' brings down the house with shake table quake simulation. By Liese Greensfelder, Media Relations | 23 May 2006. BERKELEY — Television viewers watching NBC's "Dateline" show on Sunday evening got a good idea of the damage an 8.0 earthquake could wreak on the thousands of single-family houses built in the …
The shake table, shown in Figure 1, consists of a large steel platform isolated on linear guide rails. The friction in the rails was specified as less than 10%. The steel platform is 5.8 m long by 2 m wide. The platform is supported at six points, directly below the locations of the frame columns. The shake table s driven by an i
The testbed led to additional shake-table research on non-structural components, hospital, and laboratory contents at UC Berkeley and other institutions. It is published in numerous papers and PEER Report 2005/12." Photo by Mary …
T-Labs also provided phones that Kong tested on shake tables at UC Berkeley, which realistically simulate the vibrations from large quakes such as the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake south of San Francisco. Once the app has …
PEER shake-table demonstration subjects 30-foot span to Loma Prieta, Northridge, Kobe and Chile temblors. With a series of computer-controlled earthquakes, simulating some of the most devastating in recent memory, Berkeley engineers Wednesday showed off new technology designed to keep bridges not just from collapsing in a catastrophic …
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The Richmond Field Station is an academic teaching and research off-site facility located 6 miles northwest of the UC Berkeley Central Campus on the San Francisco Bay. The RFS has been used primarily for large-scale engineering research since 1950. The 170-acre property consists of 100-acres of uplands with the remainder being marsh or bay lands.
Author(s): Moaveni, Babak; He, Xianfei; Conte, Joel P; Restrepo, Jose; Panagiotou, Marios | Abstract: A full-scale seven-story reinforced concrete building slice was tested on the unidirectional UCSD-NEES shake table during the period October 2005 - January 2006. A rectangular wall acted as the main lateral force resisting system of the building slice. The …
The UC Berkeley Shaking Table, located at the Richmond Field Station (RFS), was officially dedicated on June 24, 1972. As the first modern shaking table in the world, it helped …
We completed shake-table tests on a nonductile concrete frame this past Thursday, February 16, 2006. The structure is a three-bay by three-story plane frame. Half the frame has pre-1976 UBC ordinary details and the other half has …
The results can provide the basis for comparison with a small-scale shake table test to evaluate the reliability of small scale testing and significance of scale effects under dynamic conditions and also provide a unique dataset that can be used to validate nonlinear computational models. The column exhibited a ductile response with a well ...
The 20'x20' reinforced concrete table, located at the Richmond Field Station, has been helping Berkeley engineers advance seismic research since it was unveiled in 1972 as the world's first modern shaking table.
Two large-scale shake table test series, one without any mitigation measures and one using helical piles, were conducted using the shake table facility at the University of California, San Diego. During each test series, the soil and superstructure models were extensively instrumented and subjected to two consistently applied shaking sequences.
In March 2001, shake table tests were conducted on half-scale reinforced concrete frame specimens with three columns (fig. 1). The tests were conducted at the PEER Center, UC Berkeley Earthquake Simulation Lab by Kenneth Elwood, Ph. D. graduate student, and Jack Moehle, PEER Director. The center column, with ties at large spacing and 90° hooks ...
UC Berkeley Shaking Table. 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 configured to produce three …
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 configured to …
The signature piece of testing equipment at the PEER-UC Berkeley Lab is the six degree-of-freedom Shaking Table, the largest in the United States, and one of the largest in the world. The PEER-UC Berkeley Lab also houses a Large Scale Structures Lab consisting of a 20' x 60' strong floor with an integrated, reconfigurable, modular reaction wall.
A series of shake table scale-model tests is being performed to provide insight into a variety of aspects of seismic soil-pile-superstructure interaction (SSPSI) and also to generate a data set …
The 50th anniversary of the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center's (PEER) shaking table last week was shaking! Here's a glimpse of Friday's…
T-Labs also provided phones that Kong tested on shake tables at UC Berkeley, which realistically simulate the vibrations from large quakes such as the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake south of San Francisco. Once the app has proven reliable, earthquake detection could trigger an alert to cellphone users outside ground zero, providing users with a ...
The UC Berkeley Shaking Table, located at the Richmond Field Station (RFS), was officially dedicated on June 24, 1972. As the first modern shaking table in the world, it helped researchers conduct pioneering research …
The UC Berkeley Shaking Table, located at the Richmond Field Station (RFS), was officially dedicated on June 24, ... 1:00 PM – Building 420 (Shaking Table Lab), RFS Demonstration shake of a 3-story structure with new materials, PEER & SOM 1:00 – 2:00 PM – Lunch In-person attendance is by registration, because of the limited space.
Models exceeding 150,000 pounds have been successfully tested on the PEER-UC Berkeley Shaking Table. A 10-ton bridge crane services the Shaking Table Lab. The concrete shaking table is heavily reinforced, with both traditional …
The UC Berkeley Shaking Table, located at the Richmond Field Station (RFS), was officially dedicated on June 24, ... 1:00 PM – Building 420 (Shaking Table Lab), RFS Demonstration shake of a 3-story structure with new materials, PEER & SOM 1:00 – 2:00 PM – Lunch In-person attendance is by registration, because of the limited space. Please ...
PEER celebrated the 50th Anniversary of the UC Berkeley shaking table on June 24, 2022, at the Earthquake Simulator Laboratory facility at Richmond Field Station. Over 80 researchers, practitioners, former and current students attended the event to commemorate the impact of the table on the field of earthquake engineering.