T-wall Timelapse Video
T-wall experiment is one of the series of four tests of the NSF PreNEESR Collaborative Research Project for "Testing and analyses of nonrectangular walls under multi-directional loads".
The test is recently completed at the MAST Laboratory, a large-scale structural testing equipment site at the University of Minnesota that is a part of the George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation.
The test subject is a 8.3m (27'-3") tall tee-shaped concrete wall. Here are some stats from the experiment:
| Maximum wall deflection in X direction: | ±12.8" |
| Maximum wall deflection in Y direction: | ±6.4" |
| Force in X direction: | ±100kips (100,000lb) |
| Force in Y direction: | +225kips -120kips |
| Gravity load: | 186kips |
Video 1
Southeast view: composed of still image frames from a digital still camera.
Video 2
South view: movie taken by a DV camera.
The MAST testing facility is supported in part by the George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) Program of the National Science Foundation under Award Number CMS-0086602.
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