Abstract
3-D Full Scale Earthquake Testing Facility (E-Defense) is the world's largest scale shaking table, which can perform a collapse experiment by actual size specimen. The experiments on E-Defense have a problem that shaking accuracy is depressed by the effects of a specimen and nonlinear behavior. These effects are difficult to predict, so the compensation of them is depending on the empirical index of efficient engineers. Therefore, it is required that development of the E-Defense simulator, confirming the validity of the compensation, and establishing the techniques settling this problem. The purpose of this study is the development of the E-Defense simulator by identifying each components of E-Defense.
