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Design of a Shake Table with Moderate Cost

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Shake table testing is a very efficient tool in earthquake engineering that may be used to enhance construction methods and the overall safety of structures. Shake tables permit investigation of the dynamic behaviour of civil engineering structures. This paper details the development of a uniaxial shake table that was designed and built with the objective of limiting its cost to a moderate amount, bellow 250 k€. The technical specifications of the shake table are presented as well as the evaluation of its performance and its validation. It is shown that it is possible to build an operational shake table capable of generating real seismic motion for the assessment of structural behaviour at a moderate cost.

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Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank and acknowledge the Grenoble Alpes University for its support with the AGIR-PEPS 2016 program, the CNRS PEPS 2017 program, G-INP equipment 2017 program and the VOR program. This work has been realised in the framework of the LABEX AE&CC and the IDEX CDP Risk@Univ. Grenoble Alpes as part of the program ”Investissements d’Avenir” overseen by the French National Research Agency (reference: ANR-15-IDEX-02).

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Appendices

Appendix A: Mechanical System: Components and Dimensions

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3D illustration of the shake table parts (base fixed support, rail system, movable part and the hydraulic actuator)

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Detailed plan of the different plates welded together to form the upper mechanical part of the shake table

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Appendix B: LLTHC.45.A-T1 P3 Characteristics

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Size

System dimension

  

Carriage dimension

      
 

W1

N

H

H2

H3

L1

L2

L3

L4

W3

H4

H5

D3

S2

–

(mm)

             

45

120

37.5

60

12.3

14

136.5

96

80

14.6

100

15

8.5

10.4

M12

 

Rail dimension

      

Weight

 

Load capacity

  
 

W

H1

H6

F

D1

D2

E m i n

E m a x

L m a x

carriage

rail

dynamic C

static C0

 

–

(mm)

        

(Kg)

(Kg/m)

(N)

  

45

45

38

20.8

105

14

20

16

90

3917

2.7

11.3

59200

91100

 

Appendix C: Control Diagram of the Analogue Rack Provided by Quiri

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Damerji, H., Yadav, S., Sieffert, Y. et al. Design of a Shake Table with Moderate Cost. Exp Tech 46, 365–383 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40799-021-00482-0

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