Analytical and Experimental Studies of a Reduced Scale Model of a Steel Building

该项目涉及对六层钢结构模型的地震反应进行调查，该模型在日本筑波建筑研究所实验室通过对建筑物施加力的伪动力方法进行了测试。该程序的这一阶段是从应用于伯克利振动台的各种地震加速度中获取钢模型的响应数据。目前在振动台上测试的钢模型是这座六层同心支撑建筑的十分之三比例模型。在完成这一系列实验之后，该模型将被修改为代表在日本也进行了测试的偏心支撑框架建筑。当获得所有实验数据后，将与全尺寸建筑数据进行相关性研究，以比较两种实验方法的结果，确定比例因子关系，并验证和/或修改分析程序和施工实践。

This project involves investigations of the seismic response of a model of the six-story steel structure which was tested by the psuedo-dynamic method of applying forces to the building at the Building Research Institute Laboratory at Tsukuba, Japan. This phase of the program is obtaining data on the response of the steel model from various earthquake accelerograms applied to the Berkeley shaking table. The steel model currently being tested on the shaking table is a three-tenths scale model of the six-story, concentrically braced building. Following the completion of this series of experiments, the model will be revised to represent the eccentrically braced frame building which was also tested in Japan. When all the experimental data have been obtained, correlation studies will be made with the full-scale building data to compare results by the two methods of experimentation, to determine scale factor relationships and to verify and/or modify analytical procedures and construction practices.