Shaking Table Test of Quarter Scale 20 Story RC Moment Frame Building Subjected to Long Period Ground Motions

Abstract

Shaking table test of a quarter-scale 20-story reinforced concrete building model was carried out. Employed input waves were kinds of long period and long duration ground motion. Test results showed that structural slabs were fully effective for building strength, which could be expressed in detailed analysis using nonlinear FEM. However, the observed hysteretic damping after yielding was fairly smaller than the expected by the current design custom, which caused smaller and unsafe estimated response than that observed in the test.