Large-scale shaking table tests on a four-story RC building

Abstract

A four-story RC building is tested by using the E-Defense shake-table facility in order to verify the assessments based on AIJ recommendations as well as in order to examine its performance given by the newer Japanese code. The building consists of moment frames and multi-story walls. Ground motions recorded in the Hyogoken-Nanbu earthquake are used, and the intensity of shaking is gradually increased. Story drift responses of the building reach more than 0.03 rad. Finally, multi-story walls suffer flexural failures at the critical sections of the first story. Beam-column joints suffer shear failures, while beams and columns exhibit flexural yielding.