An Experimental Study of Tall Structures under Wind and Seismic Loading
Faculty Mentor
Dr. Aniruddha Mitra
Location
Poster 168
Session Format
Poster Presentation
Academic Unit
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Keywords
Allen E. Paulson College of Engineering and Computing Student Research Symposium, Vessel
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Start Date
2022 12:00 AM
January 2022
An Experimental Study of Tall Structures under Wind and Seismic Loading
Poster 168
Purpose:
• The purpose of this research is to study and experimentally evaluate the effect of seismic loading on three different models of a vertical pressure vessel to determine the likelihood of a loadcell failing due to impact loading.
Pressure Vessels
• Susceptible to natural weather conditions such as wind and earthquake activity [1].
• Potential tilting due to external loads, which causes lifting of legs of the three-legged pressure vessels shown in Fig. 1.
• The separation can cause an impact force on the load cell located below the leg when the leg returns to its original position
• As these forces continue to occur, the damage on the load cell due to impact loading increases over time further causing fracturing [1].
Shake Table:
• The three 3D printed models shown in Fig. 2 were used for experimentation with the uniaxial ANCO R-191 Shake Table shown in Fig. 3.
• FOXTROT and SPECTIME were the data software that configured data similar to what would be experienced when subjected to seismic activity
