Validation of 6DOF Shake Table for Testing of Half Scaled Reinforced Concrete Model
| Author(s) | : | Junaid Shah, Syed Azmat Ali Shah, Syed Muhammad Ali, Khan Shahzada, Akhter Naeem Khan |
| Institution | : | Department of Civil Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology Peshawar, Pakistan |
| Published In | : | Vol. 5, Issue 10 — October 2018 |
| Page No. | : | 106-111 |
| Domain | : | Engineering |
| Type | : | Research Paper |
| ISSN (Online) | : | 2348-4470 |
| ISSN (Print) | : | 2348-6406 |
Pakistan is located at the collision boundaries of Indian, Eurasian and Arabian plates. It is estimated that8th October 2005 Kashmir Earthquake took 80,000 lives with the economic loss of US $6 billion. Pakistan is the 6th mostheavily populated country of the world. Reinforced Concrete (RC) structures is a popular form of construction in rapidlydeveloping world. Research regarding this type of construction is the need of hour. Keeping in view the capacity of6DOF shake table a half scaled two stories RC model was constructed on 6-meter square shake table which is the largestshake table in the South Asia. Before finalizing the experimental setup, the capacity of shake table was checked with 18and 48 tons service loads. For these loads different tabletop acceleration response histories and displacement responsehistories were plotted, from which the performance of shake table was evaluated. This paper mainly focuses on therigorous process of validation of shake table, spanning over three months for the preparation of table for the test.
Junaid Shah, Syed Azmat Ali Shah, Syed Muhammad Ali, Khan Shahzada, Akhter Naeem Khan, “Validation of 6DOF Shake Table for Testing of Half Scaled Reinforced Concrete Model”, International Journal of Advance Engineering and Research Development (IJAERD), Vol. 5, Issue 10, pp. 106-111, October 2018.
