Role of Seismic Testing Facilities in Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering: SERIES Workshop

✍ Scribed by Fabio Taucer, Artur Pinto (auth.), Michael N. Fardis, Zoran T. Rakicevic (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 391
• Series: Geotechnical, Geological, and Earthquake Engineering 22
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Nowadays research in earthquake engineering is mainly experimental and in large-scale; advanced computations are integrated with large-scale experiments, to complement them and extend their scope, even by coupling two different but simultaneous tests. Earthquake engineering cannot give answers by testing and qualifying few, small typical components or single large prototypes. Besides, the large diversity of Civil Engineering structures does not allow drawing conclusions from only a few tests; structures are large and their seismic response and performance cannot be meaningfully tested in an ordinary lab or in the field. So, seismic testing facilities should be much larger than in other scientific fields; their staff has to be resourceful, devising intelligent ways to carry out simultaneously different tests and advanced computations. To better serve such a mission European testing facilities and researchers in earthquake engineering have shared their resources and activities in the framework of the European project SERIES, combining their research and jointly developing advanced testing and instrumentation techniques that maximize testing capabilities and increase the value of the tests. This volume presents the first outcomes of the SERIES and its contribution towards Performance-based Earthquake Engineering, i.e., to the most important development in Earthquake Engineering of the past three decades. The concept and the methodologies for performance-based earthquake engineering have now matured. However, they are based mainly on analytical/numerical research; large-scale seismic testing has entered the stage recently. The SERIES Workshop in Ohrid (MK) in Sept. 2010 pooled together the largest European seismic testing facilities, Europe’s best experts in experimental earthquake engineering and select experts from the USA, to present recent research achievements and to address future developments.

Audience: This volume will be of interest to researchers and advanced practitioners in structural earthquake engineering, geotechnical earthquake engineering, engineering seismology, and experimental dynamics, including seismic qualification.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
How Can Experimental Testing Contribute to Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering....Pages 1-20
Earthquake and Large Structures Testing at the Bristol Laboratory for Advanced Dynamics Engineering....Pages 21-41
Structural and Behaviour Constraints of Shaking Table Experiments....Pages 43-63
Eucentre TREES Lab: Laboratory for Training and Research in Earthquake Engineering and Seismology....Pages 65-81
Cross-Facility Validation of Dynamic Centrifuge Testing....Pages 83-98
Towards a European High Capacity Facility for Advanced Seismic Testing....Pages 99-118
Performance Requirements of Actuation Systems for Dynamic Testing in the European Earthquake Engineering Laboratories....Pages 119-134
Model Container Design for Soil-Structure Interaction Studies....Pages 135-158
Computer Vision System for Monitoring in Dynamic Structural Testing....Pages 159-176
Quality Needs of IT Infrastructure in Modern Earthquake Engineering Laboratories....Pages 177-198
Use of Large Numerical Models and High Performance Computers in Geographically Distributed Seismic Tests....Pages 199-219
Shaking Table Testing of Models of Historic Buildings and Monuments – IZIIS’ Experience....Pages 221-245
Dynamic Behaviour of Reinforced Soils – Theoretical Modelling and Shaking Table Experiments....Pages 247-263
Evaluation and Impact of Qualification of Experimental Facilities in Europe....Pages 265-285
Qualification of Large Testing Facilities in Earthquake Engineering Research....Pages 287-303
Performance Based Seismic Qualification of Large-Class Building Equipment: An Implementation Perspective....Pages 305-321
Experimental Evaluation of the Seismic Performance of Steel Buildings with Passive Dampers Using Real-Time Hybrid Simulation....Pages 323-343
Experimental Investigation of the Seismic Behaviour of Precast Structures with Pinned Beam-to-Column Connections....Pages 345-365
Experimental Investigation of the Progressive Collapse of a Steel Special Moment-Resisting Frame and a Post-tensioned Energy-Dissipating Frame....Pages 367-382
Back Matter....Pages 383-384

✦ Subjects

Civil Engineering; Structural Mechanics; Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences; Vibration, Dynamical Systems, Control