Hybrid Simulation of Steel Moment Frame to Collapse
Published July 29, 2009 This content is archived.
Testing of a geographically distributed hybrid simulation of a four story steel moment frame building subjected to the 1995 JR Takatori record.
Summary
A geographically distributed hybrid simulation of a four story steel moment frame building subjected to the 1995 JR Takatori record at 100% scale. The building model is based on the four story steel moment frame building tested to collapse at E-Defense, Japan in September 2007. The frame is divided at the mid-height of the second story with the upper stories modeled numerically in OpenSees. The lower portion is further divided into two experimental ½-scale substructures, one at Kyoto University and the second at the University at Buffalo NEES facility. Equilibrium and compatibility between the substructures are satisfied at the boundaries using the software framework for distributed testing developed at Kyoto University.
The tests is expected to last under 1½ hours, leading to the collapse of the structure.
Participants
- Gilberto Mosqueda, University at Buffalo
- Maria Cortes-Delgado, University at Buffalo
- Tao Wang, Institute of Engineering Mechanics, Beijing China
- Andres Jacobson, Kyoto University, Japan
- Masayoshi Nakashima, Kyoto University, Japan
Sponsors
This project is supported by the George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation program of the National Science Foundation under Grant Nos. CMS-0530478.
