Title: U.S. Instrumentation and Data Processing for the Four-Story Reinforced Concrete and Post-Tensioned E-Defense Building Tests (NEES-2013-1005)

Year Of Curation: 2013

Description: Researchers from Japan and the United States have been collaborating during the past two years on building tests to be conducted at the E-Defense shake table facility in Miki City, Japan, in December 2010, where two four-story, full-scale buildings will be tested side by side subjected to three dimensional seismic shaking. As the outcome of this international planning, U.S. researchers have the opportunity to provide additional sensors on the test specimens to enable measurement of more detailed building response during the tests. Through this award, the U.S. research team will provide additional sensors, cables, and data acquisition systems for the testing in addition to the 400 sensors being provided by the Japanese; the Japanese E-Defense staff will install the U.S. sensor mounts, sensors, and cables. This additional data will enable improved building model calibration and/or calibration for flexure and for shear-flexure interaction. (

Award: http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1110860

PIs & CoPIs: John Wallace

Dates: December 13, 2010 - December 31, 2011

Organizations: University of California, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Facilities: Hyogo Earthquake Engineering Research Center (E-Defense), Miki, Japan

Sponsor: NSF - 1110860

Keywords: Instrumentation,E-Defense,4-story,conventional RC,high-performance RC,shake table,full-scale,special moment frame,special shear wall

Publications "Design and Instrumentation of the 2010 E-Defense Four-Story Reinforced Concrete and Post-Tensioned Concrete Buildings"
"Seismic Performance, Modeling, and Failure Assessment of Reinforced Concrete Shear Wall Buildings" (,)

• John Wallace (2017), "U.S. Instrumentation and Data Processing for the 4-Story RC and Post-Tensioned E-Defense Building Tests (NEES-2011-1005)," https://datacenterhub.org/deedsdv/publications/view/321.