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EP-2006: the video clip above presents a comparative shake
table testing of the fixed 6-story building model (left) and the 12-story
building model on base isolators called Earthquake Protectors (right).
See also
V1,
V2
and
V3.
The project entitled “SGER: Testing of a New Line of Seismic Base Isolators”
(NSF award No 0618183) is both
analytical and experimental.
The developed software called Earthquake Performance
Evaluation Tool (EPET) enables
various animated virtual experiments on building models with and without
Earthquake Protectors. A major building performance evaluating parameter
here is
Story
Performance Rating. To download EPET - click on http://www.epet.space3d.biz.
Physical experiments on Earthquake Protector are performed at the UCSD Large High Performance Outdoor Shake Table with operational support of the Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES). Logistical support of the research was provided by Basseri Engineering, Santa Monica, CA. See also: Shustov, V. et al., 2006 (4WCSCM), Final Report for NSF and Valentin Shustov: 5th NEES Meeting Presentation. Principal Investigator: Valentin Shustov at shustov@csun.edu |
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