World’s largest shake table reveals how earthquakes damage wood-framed buildings

Assistant Professor Maria Koliou of Texas A&M University’s Zachry Department of Civil Engineering is leading an interdisciplinary study with researchers from six other US research universities and Nagoya University in Japan into how earthquakes damage residential wood-framed buildings. Researchers recently gathered data during a series of tests at Japan’s E-Defense, the world’s largest shake table. The results should help communities repair damaged buildings and their surrounding infrastructure more quickly. The collaboration is part of a National Science Foundation (NSF) Rapid Response research project under a partnership between the NSF-funded Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI) and Japan’s National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience (NIED).

[mojtabaharati]

I do love such experiments on the built infrastructures. Are you planning for a project targeting an examination of the seismic endurance of the structures subjected to long-duration earthquakes? ; I mean checking the seismic performance of such structures exposed to long motion duration in the laboratory environment?

[ronaldidk]

Where can I get one of these? It looks so fun I Want to be in one