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Shaking table test and dynamic response prediction on an
earthquake-damaged RC building
Ye Xianguo (叶献国)1, Qian Jiaru (钱稼茹)2
and Li Kangning (李康宁)3
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Hefei University of Technology, Hefei
230009, China
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Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084,
China
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CANNY Consultants Pte. Ltd., 261
Waterloo Street, Singapore 180261
Abstract: This paper presents the results from
shaking table tests of a one-tenth-scale reinforced concrete (RC) building
model. The test model is a protype of a building that was seriously damaged
during the 1985 Mexico earthquake. The input ground excitation used during the
test was from the records obtained near the site of the prototype building
during the 1985 and 1995 Mexico earthquakes. The tests showed that the damage
pattern of the test model agreed well with that of the prototype building.
Analytical prediction of earthquake response has been conducted for the
prototype building using a sophisticated 3-D frame model. The input motion used
for the dynamic analysis was the shaking table test measurements with similarity
transformation. The comparison of the analytical results and the shaking table
test results indicates that the response of the RC building to minor and the
moderate earthquakes can be predicated well. However, there is difference
between the predication and the actual response to the major earthquake.
Keywords: RC building; shaking table test; seismic
response; inelastic dynamic analysis
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