FoRCy: Rocking Shallow Foundation Performance in Slow Cyclic and Monotonic Experiments
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doi: https://doi.org/10.13019/t0cq-qf64
Numerous centrifuge experiments (e.g., Rosebrook 2001; Ugalde et al. 2007; Gajan and Kutter 2008; Deng et al. 2012; Hakhamaneshi et al. 2012; Liu et al. 2013; Allmond and Kutter 2014; Loli et al. 2014) and 1g shake-table experiments (e.g., Shirato et al. 2008; Drosos et al. 2012; Antonellis et al. 2015; Tsatsis and Anastasopoulos 2015) have demonstrated that rocking shallow foundations can be designed to provide re-centering and energy dissipation with little damage to the foundation or superstructure. Each research team listed above studied specific response aspects by varying soil profiles, structural properties and ground motions. As a result of this cumulative body of research, the concept of a controlled share of ductility demand between the superstructure and the foundation as a key ingredient for a rationale and integrated approach to the seismic design of foundations and structures has been gaining acceptance within the research and practicing earthquake engineering community (e.g., Mergos and Kawashima 2005; Kutter et al. 2006; Anastasopoulos et al. 2010; Pecker et al. 2013; Kutter et al. 2016). With different specific goals, each of the above listed research teams have presented their experimental data in different formats, using different hazard measures and different performance measures.
This database (FoRCy) contains data from a large subset of slow cyclic and monotonic experiments using the same hazard and performance measures so that data can be easily compared across research teams. Currently, the FoRCy includes data of shear-wall type structures founded on rocking shallow foundations from seven centrifuge and three 1g shake-table tests, with thirteen different soil profiles, nearly 70 slow cyclic tests, over ten monotonic tests and over ten different loading protocols, totaling 456 event model case histories.
A more detailed overview of this database and a list of references are available at the following link: FoRCy_Cover_Page
Abbreviations used for column headings are defined here: FoRCy_Column_Definitions
A separate database (FoRDy) compiles data from dynamic shaking tests on rocking foundations .
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FoRCy: Rocking Shallow Foundation Performance in Slow Cyclic and Monotonic Experiments
Manouchehr Hakhamaneshi1, Bruce L. Kutter2, Andreas Gerasimos Gavras2, Sivapalan Gajan3, Angelos Tsatsis4, George Gazetas4, Ioannis Anastasopoulos5, Tetsuya Kohno6, Giovanna Pianese7, Roberto Paolucci7, Keshab Sharma8, Lijun Deng8, Weian Liu9, Jonathan Monical10
1. California Department of Transportation,2. University of California at Davis, 3. State University of New York (SUNY) Polytechnic Institute, 4. National Technical University of Athens, 5. ETH Zurich, 6. Public Works Research Institute, 7. Politecnico Di Milano, 8. University of Alberta, 9. John A. Martin & Associates, 10. Purdue University
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Manouchehr Hakhamaneshi; Bruce L Kutter; Andreas Gerasimos Gavras; Sivapalan Gajan; Angelos Tsatsis; George Gazetas; Ioannis Anastasopoulos; Tetsuya Kohno; Giovanna Pianese; Keshab Sharma; Lijun Deng; Weian Liu; Roberto Paolucci; Jonathan Monical (2019), "FoRCy: Rocking Shallow Foundation Performance in Slow Cyclic and Monotonic Experiments," https://datacenterhub.org/resources/forcy.