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Seismic Performance Assessment and Retrofit of Non-ductile RC Frames with Infill Walls

Tested Oct 10, 2007; Mar 7, 2008; Sep 9, 2008; Dec 9, 2008


Frame ready to be poured

Intricate internals

The concrete delivery has arrived

Concrete being poured and voids eliminated

Frame being erected

Mixing the ECC for test 3

Applying the ECC for test 3

Completed frame for test 3

CU-NEES personnel Setting up for data
recording and experiment control

Checking out cracks in the ECC

Watching results with RDV

Wall seperating internally on test 3

Seperation leads to hole on test 3

Column shear on test 2

Testing team

Time-lapse video showing the last eight cycles of test 2

View time-lapse video of test 3

View time-lapse video of test 4

View time-lapse video of test 5

View time-lapse video of test 6

San Diego tests

In December a 2x3 frame was tested at the University of California, San Diego. Videos are available of the Gilroy at 130 percent and the El Centro at 250 percent tests.

Instrumentation setup for test 3

Link to NEEScentral project