Quanser Shake Table I-40 meets the Mola Structural Model Kit! What a great combination for demonstrating various structural dynamics concepts!
In this video, you can see the difference between using rigid connectors (lower stiffness) and side bracing (increased stiffness) on the dynamic response of a two-floor structure. The Mola kit is mounted on the Quanser Shake Table I-40 and subjected it to a 3 Hz, 1 cm displacement sinusoid. The braced structure holds up pretty well, while the integrity of the structure with rigid connectors was immediately compromised!
The Quanser Shake Table I-40, an open architecture bench-scale single-axis earthquake simulator, is ideal for teaching structural dynamics and control, earthquake engineering, and other control topics related to civil engineering. With pre-loaded acceleration profiles of real earthquakes, such as Northridge and El-Centro, students can study the effects on buildings, bridges, and various materials.
The Quanser Shake Table II is a mid-size open-architecture single-axis earthquake simulator ideal for teaching structural dynamics, vibration isolation, feedback control, and other control topics related to earthquake, aerospace and mechanical engineering.
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