Shake Table Test of 7-story RC Bearing Wall Building

The test structure is a slice of a 7-story residential building incorporating structural walls as the lateral force-resisting system. The structure was built at full-scale, see (Figure 1). The test comprised a main 12ft long rectangular wall and two transverse walls that were required to provide lateral and torsional stability during the test program. One of the transverse walls was joined to the rectangular wall in a second phase of testing not described here. Testing was performed at the Englekirk Structural Research Center, where the UCSD-NEES Large High-Performance Outdoor Shake Table operates. The web wall provides lateral ⿿ force resistance in the E-W direction of loading, while the two transverse walls provide transverse and torsional resistance to the test structure.