Equipment Grant for Renovation and Upgrading of the Earthquake Simulator Capability

该奖项为设备赠款提供资金，以翻新和改进 地震模拟器（振动台）设施的能力 在加州伯克利的里士满站大学。 的 模拟器建于1972年，它是最大的此类 在美国的设施，并已在实际使用 自建设以来，一直在为教师进行研究 成员在伯克利和其他大学在美国各地和由 来自咨询公司、工业公司和 其他企事业单位提供 它仍然是全职使用，但 它一再遭受故障，显然迫切需要 装修 认识到这一需要，加州州 最近拨款230 000美元用于翻修这座建筑和相关的 设施，该提案要求补充资金， 美国国家科学基金会恢复振动台设施， 目前最先进的能力。 具体资金要求 为了提供一种用于振动台的新的和改进的控制系统， 数据采集设施，微波数据之间的联系 模拟器设施和计算机处的采集设施 网络的伯克利分校和可行性研究，以探讨 可以向桌子添加额外的运动分量， 可以在三维地震震动下进行试验 条件 伯克利的地震模拟器是美国地震学的主要研究资源。 美国，并依赖于进行结构振动试验 装配和完整的系统，以提高知识， 结构抗震性能 是极其重要 把这个设施维持在最先进的水平 一个 强烈推荐获奖。

This award provides funds for an equipment grant to renovate and improve the capabilities of the earthquake simulator (shaking table) facilities at the Richmond Station University of California, Berkeley. The simulator was constructed in 1972, it is one of the largest such facilities in the United States and has been in use virtually continuously since its construction for research performed by faculty members at Berkeley and other Universities throughout the U.S. and by engineers from consulting companies, industrial corporations and government agencies. It continues to be used on a full-time basis, but it suffers repeated break-downs and is clearly in serious need of renovation. In recognition of this need the State of California has recently allocated $230,000 for renovation of this and related facilities, and this proposal requests complementary funding from the National Science Foundation to restore the shaking table facility to a current state-of-the-art capability. Specifically funds are requested to provide a new and improved control system for the shaking table, new data acquisition facilities, a micro-wave link between the data acquisition facilities at the simulator facility and the computer network on the Berkeley campus and a feasibility study to explore the possibility of adding an additional component of motion to the table so that tests can he performed under three-dimensional earthquake shaking conditions. The earthquake simulator at Berkeley is a major research resource in the U.S. and is depended on to conduct shaking tests of structural assemblages and complete systems required to advance the knowledge of earthquake behavior of structures. It is extremely important to maintain this facility at a state-of-the-art level of operation. An award is strongly recommended.