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- Title
- Model Tests on Earthquake Simulators, Development and Implementation of Experimental Procedures.
- File
- PB81174104.pdf
- Author(s)
- Mills, R. S.; Krawinkler, H.; Gere, J. M.
- Source
- National Science Foundation, Washington, DC., June 1979, 290 p.
- Identifying Number(s)
- 39
- Abstract
- The development and implementation of dynamic model testing analysis in earthquake engineering are discussed. A three-story single bay steel frame structure was used as a prototype for a 1:6 scale model study. The replica model simulates all aspects of the prototype structural system that contributes to earthquake response characteristics. A comprehensive test study compared responses of the model and prototype. Results demonstrated accurate simulation of the prototype in terms of global and local response parameters. The nature of prototype inelastic response was duplicated by the small-scale model. Observed minor discrepencies in model-prototype correlation are explained by the larger weld sizes of the model and by the influence of earthquake simulation reproduction capabilities on test structure response.
- Keywords
- Simulators; Earthquake resistant structures; Model tests; Dynamic response; Buildings; Earthquake engineering; Shear properties; Elastic properties; Earthquakes; Dynamic structural analysis