| Beschreibung |
Design of civil infrastructure involve assumptions of material characteristics, assumption of loading conditions, and assumptions of structural behavior. However, some uncertainties regarding structural behavior can be reduced by using scaled models. In the case of earthquake engineering, knowing the structural behavior under seismic events allow engineers to improve models and produce more accurate designs. In this context, shake tables are used for scaling and simulating earthquakes in scaled models. However, shake tables are usually expensive and difficult to operate. The proposed project is centered around shake tables. The main objective of this project is to produce a low-cost shake table able to simulate earthquake events for scaled structures. The implementation of the shake table involves several steps: - Elaborate a literature review regarding low-costs shaking tables - Summarize the scaling process of earthquake movements - Elaborate a budget of the materials needed for creating a shaking table - Create the shaking table - Program the shaking table for reproducing scaled earthquakes based on input text files with earthquake records The outcome of the project will be a low-cost shake table able to reproduce scaled earthquakes for any scaled structure. A real-time evaluation of the produce earthquake should be accomplished by measuring the movement of the shake table using accelerometers and deviations of the movement should automatically corrected by the shake table. In parallel to the special project, attendance to the “Scientific working in computational engineering” lecture is compulsory. The basics concepts required for working and documenting scientific works will be obtained during the lecture. Integrated lecturesIntegrated |
