Preliminary Report on Seismic Testing of a Full-Scale Six-Story Steel Building

Foutch, D.A.; Goel, S.C.; Roeder, C.W.

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Title

Preliminary Report on Seismic Testing of a Full-Scale Six-Story Steel Building

Author(s)

• Foutch, D.A.
• Goel, S.C.
• Roeder, C.W.

Issue Date

1986-11

Keyword(s)

• earthquake motions
• Earthquake engineering
• Elasticity

Abstract

A full-scale six-story steel building was constructed and tested as part of the U.S./Japan Cooperative Earthquake Research Program Utilizing Large Size Testing Facilities. The program was jointly funded by the Ministry of Construction of Japan and the United States National Science Foundation. The overall objective of the program is to improve seismic safety in practice and to determine the relationships among full-scale tests, small-scale tests, component tests and analytical studies. The full-scale building was 15m square in plan and measured 22.38m from the test floor to the top of the roof girders. It was tested as a concentric braced frame; repaired and tested as an eccentric braced frame; tested as a moment frame; and finally, tested with cladding and other nonstructural elements installed. The tests were conducted using the pseudodynamic testing technique which simulated actual seismic loadings. This preliminary report describes the full-scale building and the testing program and presents preliminary results and conclusions.

Publisher

University of Illinois Engineering Experiment Station. College of Engineering. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Series/Report Name or Number

Civil Engineering Studies SRS-527

Type of Resource

text

Language

en

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Sponsor(s)/Grant Number(s)

National Science Foundation Grants CEE 83-12656, CEE 82-06200, ECE 8511315, CEE 82-07521, ECE 85-15419, and CEE 83-00684

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