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- Title
- Development of Substructuring Techniques for On-Line Computer Controlled Seismic Performance Testing.
- File
- PB86132941.pdf
- Author(s)
- Dermitzakis, S. N.; Mahin, S. A.
- Source
- National Science Foundation, Washington, DC., February 1985, 162 p.
- Identifying Number(s)
- UCB/EERC-85/04
- Abstract
- Application of substructuring concepts to on-line computer controlled (pseudodynamic) testing is developed so that analytical subassemblages can be combined with a physical test assemblage to simulate the seismic response of the complete system. Numerical algorithms are developed to carry out analytical substructuring. Their reliability is investigated by means of pseudodynamic tests of several specimens. The results of these tests are presented and discussed and their correlation with analytical simulations is evaluated.
- Keywords
- Structural engineering; Seismic waves; Performance tests; Earthquake engineering; Simulation