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- Title
- Shaking Table Tests of a Tubular Steel Frame Model.
- File
- PB82220161.pdf
- Author(s)
- Ghanaat, Y.; Clough, R. W.
- Source
- National Science Foundation, Washington, DC., January 1982, 149 p.
- Identifying Number(s)
- UCB/EERC-82/02
- Abstract
- This report presents the experimental results of a 2-D (two dimensional) x-braced tubular steel offshore platform model subjected to shaking table motions simulating earthquake excitations. The test frame was a 5/48 scale model of a representative Southern California platform designed according to American Petroleum Institute wave and earthquake criteria. The main purpose of this research was to measure the dynamic response and failure mechanism to be expected of a typical offshore frame subjected to damaging earthquake motions.
- Keywords
- Seismic design; Steel construction; Earthquake resistant structures; Offshore structures; Mechanical hysteresis; Dynamic response; Earthquake engineering; Earthquakes; Dynamic structural analysis