PERFORMANCE OF AN EXTERIOR METAL CURTAIN WALL IN SEISMIC RESPONSES OF A HIGH-RISE BUILDING

- E-Defense shaking table tests -

Abstract

A two-story, two-span by two-bay frame was set up on E-Defense shaking table, and curtain walls made of metal sashes and glasses were attached with typical connection details. In a series of tests, seismic responses of a high-rise building were reproduced in the frame. First, damage of the curtain walls in expected seismic responses (the maximum inter-story drift angle is 0.02 rad) was observed. The possibility that the curtain walls come off and drop from the frame was also considered in an ultimate deformation range (the maximum inter-story drift angle is 0.04 rad).