Collage of Shake Table Projects (IMAGE)

University of California - San Diego

Collage of Shake Table Projects

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The NEES @ UCSD shake table has been used to test a wide variety of structures. Clockwise from center of top row: a five-story building equipped with non-structural components (two pictures), a soft-story wood frame building, a precast concrete structure, a wind turbine, interior of the five-story building's surgery suite, a seven-story building, a three-story masonry building and a bridge column (image at the center).

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Jacobs School of Engineering/UC San Diego

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