Shake-table testing of a full-scale clay-URM building with flexible timber diaphragms (EUC-BUILD-2)

This dataset includes acceleration and displacement recordings from a unidirectional shake-table test performed on a full-scale, single-storey unreinforced masonry building. The specimen represented a typical detached house of the Groningen region of the Netherlands, consisting of double-wythe clay-brick unreinforced masonry walls without any specific seismic detailing. The building prototype included large openings and a reentrant corner, causing a discontinuity in one of the perimeter walls. The floor was made of timber beams and planks, resulting in a flexible diaphragm. The roof, characterized by a very steep pitch, consisted of timber trusses connected by wood purlins and boards. The two façades perpendicular to the shaking direction were designed to represent two typical gable geometries. An incremental dynamic test was conducted up to the near-collapse state of the building, using input ground motions compatible with induced seismicity scenarios for the examined region.

The shake-table tests were conducted in 2016 at the SHAKELAB testing facilities of the EUCENTRE in Pavia, Italy. They were part of the EUCENTRE Foundation project 'Study of the vulnerability of masonry buildings in Groningen', within the research framework programme on hazard and risk of induced seismicity in the Groningen province, sponsored by the Nederlandse Aardolie Maatschappij BV (NAM). The project was carried out in collaboration with the research group of Masonry Structures from the University of Pavia in Italy.