NEES MUST-SIM Reinforced Concrete Pier Test
The NEES MUST-SIM project for Reinforced Concrete (RC) Pier Test took place on October 15, 2004 in the Newmark Civil Engineering Lab at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
October 15, 2004
The NEES MUST-SIM project for Reinforced Concrete (RC) Pier Test took place on October 15, 2004 in the Newmark Civil Engineering Lab at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
The recent testing of the RC Pier can be viewed in video by the following link:
https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/sjkim4/Download/video/01_PierTest_Far.wmv
Slides of current experiments with Multi-Sites Simulation (MISST)
RC Pier Specimen
Pier Test
The prototype of pier is the pier of Santa Monica Bridge (highway I-10) which was damaged by Northridge earthquake in 1994. The damaged pattern was shear failure, rebar buckling, and compression failure.
Also, by using LBCB, Pseudo Dynamic Test (PSD) can be possible with 6 degree of freedom control. Thus, the purpose of experiment is to induce the shear failure under static load which represent the dynamic loading type by PSD test. As we expected, the shear failure occurred in the middle are of pier. In addition, by axial load, the compression failure and rebar buckling occurred. This failure type is very similar with that of prototype.
Project Participants
Leaders in the project are: Prof. Amr Elnashai, Prof. Bill Spencer and Prof. Dan Kuchma
Participants on the project are: Post-Doctor: Guangqiang Yang and Quan Gan; Visiting Scholar: Yoshihiro Nitta; Graduate students: Sung Jig Kim “ Design and analysis; Narutoshi Nakata - Control for experiment (LBCB)
Other supports include: Oh-Sung Kwon, Curtis J Holub, Johanna Gonzalez, and Nicholas J Burdette
The recent testing of the RC Pier can be viewed in video by the following link:
https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/sjkim4/Download/video/01_PierTest_Far.wmv
Slides of current experiments with Multi-Sites Simulation (MISST)
RC Pier Specimen
Pier Test
The prototype of pier is the pier of Santa Monica Bridge (highway I-10) which was damaged by Northridge earthquake in 1994. The damaged pattern was shear failure, rebar buckling, and compression failure.
Also, by using LBCB, Pseudo Dynamic Test (PSD) can be possible with 6 degree of freedom control. Thus, the purpose of experiment is to induce the shear failure under static load which represent the dynamic loading type by PSD test. As we expected, the shear failure occurred in the middle are of pier. In addition, by axial load, the compression failure and rebar buckling occurred. This failure type is very similar with that of prototype.
Project Participants
Leaders in the project are: Prof. Amr Elnashai, Prof. Bill Spencer and Prof. Dan Kuchma
Participants on the project are: Post-Doctor: Guangqiang Yang and Quan Gan; Visiting Scholar: Yoshihiro Nitta; Graduate students: Sung Jig Kim “ Design and analysis; Narutoshi Nakata - Control for experiment (LBCB)
Other supports include: Oh-Sung Kwon, Curtis J Holub, Johanna Gonzalez, and Nicholas J Burdette
