Shake Table Experiments

These shake table experiments were conducted between September and December 2002 at the Earthquake Simulator Laboratory of the Earthquake Engineering Research Center in Richmond Field Station, headquarters of the PACIFIC EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING RESEARCH center.

 


 

These shake table tests were conducted as part of the PEER U.C. Science Lab project, a comprehensive study that is focused primarily on estimating the lab's content damage and the life safety and operational consequences of such damage under a major seismic event. The experiments performed on the shake table investigate the dynamic response of massive equipment (such as laboratory refrigerators, freezers, incubators, etc.) under various earthquake motions.

 

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Project Doctoral Researcher: Dimitrios Konstantinidis

Project Principal Investigator: Nicos Makris

Lab Personnel that assisted in setting up and performing the experiments: Don Clyde, Wes Neighbor, David Maclam