Engineering Research Equipment: Shaking Table Facility for Research in Structural Dynamics

这项设备拨款的主要目的是由莱斯大学土木工程系购买一个振动台设施。在动力基础激励下，需要振动台设施来测试高达五分之一的结构模型。振动台的尺寸为5英尺× 5英尺，测试负载能力为1500磅。该表的最高目标频率为40hz。赖斯承担了该实验设备所需费用总额的大约一半，并将在未来继续维护和升级该系统。振动台的可用性将使几个正在进行和未来的研究项目与结构的地震反应有关的实验验证成为可能。在结构实验室安装振动台将补充现有的分析研究重点，并将为未来结构动力学实验项目提供广泛的基础。＊＊＊

9311031 Durrani The main objective of this equipment grant is the acquisition of a shaking table facility by the Civil Engineering Department of Rice University. The shaking table facility is needed to test up to one-fifth scale structural models under dynamic base excitation. The shaking table will be 5 ft x 5 ft in size with a test load capacity of 1,500 pounds. The highest frequency targeted for the table is 40 Hz. Rice has cost-shared approximately half of the total requested amount for this experimental equipment and will continue to maintain and upgrade the system in the future. The availability of a shaking table will enable experimental verification of several ongoing and future research projects related to seismic response of structures. The installation of a shaking table in the structures laboratory will complement the existing research focus on analytical research and will provide the foundation for a wide range of future projects in experimental structural dynamics. ***