Sentences with phrase «largest shake table»

In Japan, for example, a seven - story CLT building was tested on the world's largest shake table.

One very large shake table is at the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER) at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Irvine.

Not exact matches

If all of the towers fell, try testing this activity with shorter towers, a larger base that takes up more space and / or a smaller distance of shake - table displacement.

A two - story wooden structure endured four different earthquake simulations on July 14, 2017 on the world's largest outdoor shake table here in San Diego.

The researchers from a consortium of U.S. universities, with collaborators from industry and the public sector, are performing the tests on the UC San Diego shake table, the largest outdoor shake table in the world.The facility is part of NHERI@UCSD, an experimental facility at UC San Diego funded by the National Science Foundation as part of its Natural Hazard Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI) program.

T - Labs also provided phones that Kong tested on shake tables at UC Berkeley, which realistically simulate the vibrations from large quakes such as the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake south of San Francisco.

A resource for NSF - funded researchers around the nation since 2004, the shake table, based at the University of California, San Diego, can replicate ground motions of most of the world's largest earthquakes.

In the glow of moonlight and floodlight, the world's largest outdoor shake table stands ready to assess a 1.2 meter - diameter bridge column as 250 tons bear down on it.