Testing of large structures Destructive testing
snapshot shake-table video of 6-story non-ductile concrete building
building structures or large nonbuilding structures (such dams , bridges) subjected destructive testing due prohibitive cost of constructing building, or scale model of building, destroy it.
earthquake engineering requires understanding of how structures perform @ earthquakes. destructive tests more carried out structures constructed in earthquake zones. such tests referred crash tests, , carried out verify designed seismic performance of new building, or actual performance of existing building. tests are, mostly, carried out on platform called shake-table designed shake in same manner earthquake. results of tests include corresponding shake-table videos.
testing of structures in earthquakes increasingly done modelling structure using specialist finite element software.
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