TY - GEN
T1 - A Shake Table Testing Campaign of Electrical Cabinets
AU - Merino, Roberto J.
AU - Dacarro, Filippo
AU - Dubini, Paolo
AU - Graziotti, Francesco
AU - Grottoli, Luca
AU - Lanese, Igor
AU - Perrone, Daniele
AU - Rota, Maria
AU - Nascimbene, Roberto
AU - Filiatrault, Andre
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Non-structural elements such as electrical cabinets play a key role in determining the seismic performance of buildings. Seismic qualification shake table testing of non-structural elements is a relatively simple way to evaluate their expected seismic performance. This paper presents a shake table testing campaign performed on several electrical cabinet specimens using the 6DLAB laboratories at the EUCENTRE Foundation located in Pavia, Italy. These shake table tests were performed as part of the research project Creazione di un Ambiente Domestico Sicuro (CADS). The physical properties of all the tested electrical cabinet archetypes varied considerably including: base-mounted electrical cabinets, wall-mounted electrical cabinets, electrical cabinets with different attachment strengths, and electrical cabinets with different framing structure strengths. The shake table tests were carried out using two seismic testing protocols, one of which is commonly used for the seismic qualification of non-structural elements, whereas the second one was proposed within the scope of the CADS Project. The performance of selected electrical cabinet archetypes during the shake table tests are presented and discussed in this paper.
AB - Non-structural elements such as electrical cabinets play a key role in determining the seismic performance of buildings. Seismic qualification shake table testing of non-structural elements is a relatively simple way to evaluate their expected seismic performance. This paper presents a shake table testing campaign performed on several electrical cabinet specimens using the 6DLAB laboratories at the EUCENTRE Foundation located in Pavia, Italy. These shake table tests were performed as part of the research project Creazione di un Ambiente Domestico Sicuro (CADS). The physical properties of all the tested electrical cabinet archetypes varied considerably including: base-mounted electrical cabinets, wall-mounted electrical cabinets, electrical cabinets with different attachment strengths, and electrical cabinets with different framing structure strengths. The shake table tests were carried out using two seismic testing protocols, one of which is commonly used for the seismic qualification of non-structural elements, whereas the second one was proposed within the scope of the CADS Project. The performance of selected electrical cabinet archetypes during the shake table tests are presented and discussed in this paper.
KW - Electrical cabinets
KW - Non-structural elements
KW - Seismic qualification
KW - Shake table testing
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85148694996
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-21187-4_63
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-21187-4_63
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 9783031211867
T3 - Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering
SP - 735
EP - 749
BT - Seismic Isolation, Energy Dissipation and Active Vibration Control of Structures - 17th World Conference on Seismic Isolation, WCSI 2022
A2 - Cimellaro, Gian Paolo
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
T2 - 17th World Conference on Seismic Isolation, WCSI 2022
Y2 - 12 September 2022 through 16 September 2022
ER -