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Full-scale shaking table experiments on the seismic response of a 10-story reinforced-concrete building: overview and analysis

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From November to December 2015, shaking table experiments were conducted on a ten-story reinforced-concrete building to acquire useful data for developing advanced technology for seismic structures and to investigate numerical analysis models. Two structural system types, which are a free-standing base-sliding and conventional seismic structure system, were used in this experiment; the second system was the same building as the first, but with a fixed base. The specimen building was subjected to Kobe earthquake motions with amplitudes of 10%, 25%, 50%, 100%, and 60%. The experimental results of the free-standing base-sliding and conventional seismic structures were compared, and regression analysis was conducted on the relationship between the seismic performance of each structure and seismic intensity. During the Kobe earthquake with 100% amplitude, the peak maximum inter-story drift ratio of the free-standing base-sliding was smaller than that of the conventional seismic structure. The acceleration response distributions for the free-standing base-sliding and conventional seismic structure system experiments with smaller amplitudes were similar to the distribution provided by the Architectural Institute of Japan. The shear force coefficient at the base-sliding surface did not fluctuate significantly, despite the increase in sliding velocity. According to the regression analysis results, the global rotation stiffness ratio and equivalent story stiffness ratio of each story may be related to the cumulative value of the peak velocity of the shaking table; further, the peak maximum inter-story drift ratio may be linearly related to the seismic intensity.

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This work is supported by the Korea Agency for Infrastructure Technology Advancement (KAIA) grant funded by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (Grant number [21CTAP-C164148-01]) and Seoul Institute of Technology (2023-AA-011) during the preparation of this manuscript.

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  1. Earthquake Disaster Mitigation Research Division, National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience, Miki, Japan

    Jae-Do Kang, Koichi Kajiwara, Takuya Nagae & Eiji Sato

  2. Earthquake Disaster Mitigation Center, Seoul Institute of Technology, Seoul, Republic of Korea

    Jae-Do Kang

  3. Disaster Mitigation Research Center, Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

    Takuya Nagae

  4. Technology Center, Fujita Corporation, Atsugi, Japan

    Yusuke Tosauchi

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All authors contributed to the study conception and design. The test and data collection were performed by KK, J-DoK, ES, YT, and TN. Data analyses were performed by J-DoK. The results were discussed with JDoK, KK, and TN. The draft of the manuscript was written by J-DoK. All authors read and approved the manuscript.

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Kang, JD., Kajiwara, K., Nagae, T. et al. Full-scale shaking table experiments on the seismic response of a 10-story reinforced-concrete building: overview and analysis. Bull Earthquake Eng 21, 6511–6534 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10518-023-01735-6

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