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

本项目对日本筑波建筑研究所实验室的六层钢结构模型进行了拟动力施力试验。该计划的这一阶段是从应用于伯克利振动台的各种地震加速度图中获取钢模型的响应数据。目前正在振动台上测试的钢模型是这座六层中心支撑建筑的十分之三比例的模型。在完成这一系列实验后，将对模型进行修改，以表示偏心支撑框架建筑，该建筑也在日本进行了测试。在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，确定比例系数关系，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.