| March 8, 2012 | ||
| 11:30 am | to | 1:30 pm |
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Join the American Concrete Institute and the Structural Engineers Association to hear a
presentation on the fullscale structural and non-structural five-story test building
now under construction at UC San Diego’s Englekirk/Powell Research
Laboratory. Before testing, the concrete structure will be equipped with medical
equipment such as hospital beds, computers, and a surgical center. The
full-scale concrete building sits atop the world’s largest outdoor “shake
table,” located at the Englekirk/Powell Research Laboratory near Poway.
Engineers have designed this experiment to
study how a hospital’s inner workings – pipes, stairwells, elevators, computers
- will fare in extreme shaking. In those tests, the entire building will
be accelerated to speeds as fast as six feet a second. Motions will
simulate a range of historic earthquakes, including the 7.9 magnitude Denali
earthquake of 2002 and the 6.7 magnitude Northridge quake of 1994. The
ACI/SEA presentation will outline the structural system and discuss the
expected outcomes for experimental testing which is scheduled to occur later in
March.