Testing wall panels for earthquake response
As part of the structural response research program being conducted for the Nevada Operations Office of ERDA a testing program for the investigation of nonstructural wall panels subjected to racking was developed and conducted. The objectives of the testing program were to determine thresholds for damage to partitions due to horizontal adjacent story displacement in high-rise buildings and to gather data that can be used to determine the influence of nonstructural partitions on the structural response of high-rise buildings. In general, the wall panels were constructed to represent typical partitions used in high-rise building construction. Some of the panels were used for special parameter studies or for comparisons with other test programs. A specially designed testing frame simulated cyclic lateral displacement, parallel to the plane of the wall panels, that might be experienced during the response of a building to strong winds or earthquake motion. Stiffness and strength characteristics, estimates of equivalent viscous damping, and damage threshold results were obtained. The data appear to give a good approximate evaluation of the performance of non-load-bearing partitions under cyclic loading. (LCL)
- Research Organization:
- Blume (John A.) and Associates, Engineers, San Francisco, Calif. (USA)
- NSA Number:
- NSA-33-025926
- OSTI ID:
- 4038894
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-760307-2
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: ASCE/EMD specialty conference on dynamic response of structures, Los Angeles, California, United States of America (USA), 30 Mar 1976; Other Information: Orig. Receipt Date: 30-JUN-76
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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