At Colorado State University, civil engineering professor Dr. John van de Lindt conducted a series of earthquake shake table tests of a half-scale two-story residential building with an integrated one car garage as part of a National Science Foundation funded NEESWood project task related to seismic protection systems. The overall goal of that task is to enable applications of protective systems to woodframe buildings by integrating them into the performance-based seismic design philosophy developed within the project as a whole. The tests consisted of three 2% in 50-year ground motions from three different California earthquakes. In this Engineering TV interview, Prof. van de Lindt discusses the engineering behind the CSU earthquake shake table as well as others around the world involved in the NEESWood program, including the world's largest in Miki City, Japan.
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