Simulation of the seismic performance of w88 live casino systems
- PI: E. "Manos" Maragakis, w88 casino, Reno
- Co-PIs: André Filiatrault, w88 live casino of Buffalo;Steve French, Georgia Tech;Tara Hutchinson, w88 live casino of California, San Diego;Bob Reitherman, CUREE
- Sponsored by:National Science Foundation Grant No.: CMMI-0721399
Project summary
A series of experiments were performed at the w88 casino, Reno to investigate the seismic behavior of ceiling-piping-partition nonstructural systems.
The objectives of these w88 live casino are:
- Investigating the system-level responses and failure mechanisms of w88 live casino systems
- Investigating the interaction of different w88 live casino components in ceiling-piping-partition systems
- Evaluating the impact of structural non-linearity on the response of w88 live casino components
Experimental set-up
Description of the w88 live casino
The test-bed consists of a two-story, two-bay by one-bay steel framing system with concrete floor slabs, designed to incorporate various w88 live casino system configurations.
To accommodate large-scale realistic specimens, the w88 live casino is 60 ft long, 11.5 ft wide and 24.5 ft high.
It is mounted longitudinally over three bi-axial shake tables at the w88 casino NEES facility.
It should be noted that for safety and re-usability, the main load-carrying elements (beams, columns and connections) of the test-bed were designed to remain linear at all times. However, the overall w88 live casino response can include that of an inelastic system mainly due to controlled yielding of braces.
Linear and w88 live casino
The proposed w88 live casino consist of two parts.
- w88 live casino Tests.In the first part, the structure remains linearly-elastic during all runs in order to investigate the acceleration sensitive components responses mainly ceiling w88 live casino.
- w88 live casino. In the second part, yielding braces will be implemented in the second part to achieve large drifts to evaluate the behavior of drift sensitive w88 live casino like partitions.
Considering the fact that ceiling w88 live casino are sensitive to acceleration, all of the configurations will be tested in the linear structure. After that, some configurations, which are more vulnerable to drift, will be used in the nonlinear (yielding) structure system to evaluate the effects of large drifts on their responses and the interactions between them.