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Report - PEER - University of California, Berkeley

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(a)Figure 3. Tests on a full-scale models <strong>of</strong> an existing RC frame structure:(a) test set-up at ELSA; (b) first storey shear-drift diagrams and envelopecurves for the bare and infilled frames.(b)5. NEW AND INNOVATIVE EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES ANDFACILITIESIn order to meet the requirements <strong>of</strong> PBSD there is also a need for experimentalfacilities capable <strong>of</strong> handling complex structures and systems, including 3Dearthquake response, to understand the real effects <strong>of</strong> phenomena like SSI and tocombine physical and numerical simulation online and <strong>of</strong>fline in a sort <strong>of</strong> 'real-virtualtesting environment'.NEES represents a pioneering initiative on the creation <strong>of</strong> a network <strong>of</strong>experimental facilities and their users aiming at a collaborative research approach forthe US earthquake engineering community. New experimental facilities wereconstructed, existing ones were upgraded and the communication infrastructure andtools for geographically distributed and hybrid (numerical and experimental) testingseems to be ready. The NEES facilities and associated vision are deemed to provide avaluable contribution to the development and implementation <strong>of</strong> PBSD as well as toinvestigate a series <strong>of</strong> phenomena in need <strong>of</strong> increased knowledge (e.g., SSI,asynchronous input motions). Moreover, the database <strong>of</strong> experimental results canconstitute, in the medium/long term, a source for model development/calibration aswell as for limit-state characterization and quantification.Unfortunately, in Europe there is no similar specific programme financing new orupgrading existing earthquake engineering facilities, but there is a past experience <strong>of</strong>collaboration between EE facilities. In addition, ELSA has recently made substantialprogress on the development and implementation <strong>of</strong> the PSD testing method withsubstructuring and on the development <strong>of</strong> advanced test setups, including for example3D testing <strong>of</strong> buildings (2 horizontal translations and 1 rotation per storey). Examples<strong>of</strong> these types <strong>of</strong> tests and illustrative results are given below.288

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