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The damage of nonstructural components represents the largest contribution to the economic loss caused by an earthquake. Since nonstructural components are not amenable to traditional structural analysis, full-scale experimental testing is crucial to understand their behaviour under earthquake. For this reason, shaking table tests are performed to investigate the seismic behaviour of plasterboard partitions. A steel test frame is properly designed in order to simulate the seismic effects at a generic building storey. The tests are performed shaking the table simultaneously in both horizontal directions. To investigate a wide range of interstorey drift demand and seismic damage, the shakes are performed scaling the accelerograms at eleven different intensity levels. The tested plasterboard partitions from Siniat exhibit a good seismic behaviour, both in their own plane and out of plane, showing limited damage up to 1.1 % interstorey drift ratio. The correlation between the dynamic characteristics of the test setup and the recorded damage is evidenced. Finally, an interesting comparison between the experimental results and the analytical model is also performed.
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This research study has been funded both by Italian Department of Civil Protection in the frame of the national project DPC—ReLUIS 2010–2013 and by Siniat that also provided the partition systems for the testing program. The advice provided by Antimo Fiorillo, structural engineer, in the definition of the test frame is gratefully acknowledged.
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Magliulo, G., Petrone, C., Capozzi, V. et al. Seismic performance evaluation of plasterboard partitions via shake table tests. Bull Earthquake Eng 12, 1657–1677 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10518-013-9567-8
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