ON STRUCTURAL INELASTIC RESPONSE AND HUMAN RESPONSE AS RELATED TO THE MAXIMUM ACCELERATION OF THE EARTHQUAKES

TWO EXPERIMENTS WERE PERFORMED UTILIZING THE WORLD'S LARGEST SHAKING TABLE FACILITY. THE MOST RECENT STYLE OF PREFABRICATED UNIT HOUSE WAS SELECTED AS A VIBRATION TEST SPECIMEN IN A PILOT TEST FOR DEMONSTRATING THE CAPABILITY OF THESE FACILITIES. IN THE FIRST VIBRATION TESTS FOUR SEISMOLOGISTS FROM THE JAPAN METEOROLOGICAL AGENCY MEASURED EARTHQUAKE INTENSITIES ON THE JMA INTENSITY SCALE TO OBTAIN A SUBJECTIVE EVALUATION OF ACCELERATION VALVE. IN THE SECOND EXPERIMENT A TEST SPECIMEN WAS SEVERELY SHAKEN, WITH THE SHAKING TABLE CONTROLLED TO FOLLOW A VERY STRONG MOTION ACCELEROGRAM. THIS TEST SPECIMEN WAS FINALLY SUBJECTED TO SINUSOIDAL WAVES OF LARGE AMPLITUDE, WHICH BROUGHT THE TEST SPECIMEN TO STRUCTURAL RUPTURE. AN ANALYTICAL EVALUATION OF THE DESTRUCTIVE POWER OF EARTHQUAKE MOTIONS CONCLUDES THE PAPER. /AUTHOR/

• Corporate Authors:

  Public Works Res Inst, Cm /Japan

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• Authors:
  • Ohsaki, Y
  • Watabe, M
  • SAWADA, K
• Publication Date: 1972

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 25-48
• Serial:
  • Publication of: Precast Concrete /UK/
  • Volume: 14
  • Publisher: Precast Concrete /UK

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Earthquakes; Evaluation
• Uncontrolled Terms: Intensity
• Old TRIS Terms: Subjective
• Subject Areas: Bridges and other structures; Highways;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00209849
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 19 1973 12:00AM