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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I am deeply indebted to Dr. Ashok Kumar Gadiya, Chairman, MEWAR UNIVERSITY,

Chittorgarh for providing me the infrastructural facilities as well as highly qualified faculties
to complete my project work. My utmost gratitude to almighty God, who has been very kind
to me during this work. The achievement would be worthless if it was not the timely help and
guidance of well-wishers. I know acknowledge is not well enough to scale their help and
wishes.

Yet I take this opportunity to express my gratitude towards my professors without whom the
thesis work could not shape. It is a pleasure to thank my guide Mr. Esar Ahmad for his
precious guidance, constant encouragement throughout the course of my thesis. I also express
my thanks to my Head of Department and other faculty members for their valuable
suggestions from time to time. I would also like to thank my classmates and all that has
directly and indirectly helped me during my work. I would also like to thank my parents and
my family members for providing me with their blessing, immense encouragement, moral
support, constant inspiration, enthusiasm and co-operation for my dissertation work.

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ABSTRACT

Several sizeable earthquakes have caused severe damage in civil structures all over the world.
Vibrations in structures which are induced by natural disasters such as earthquake and
hurricanes may lead to greater dynamic responses of the structures. To protect civil structures
from significant damage, the response reduction of civil structures under such severe
earthquakes has become an important topic in structural engineering. The study of structural
dynamics in civil engineering curriculum is commonly perceived to be a difficult exercise
because of the mathematical nature of the subject. Thus, one of the most effective ways to
simplify this would be development of a suite of simple experimental setups which would
Upon completion of the model, static stiffness tests and free vibration tests is performed to
determine the actual properties of the model such as stiffness, damping ratio and natural
frequencies of vibration. The model is thought of as a model for a building frame with three
floors which suffers earthquake like base motions. The frequency of the base motion is
varying by changing the RPM of the electric motor. The shake table is use to record data
from an accelerometer mounted on the model. Dewesoft x software is used to compute the
data for shake table.

Keywords: Dynamic response of building

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT i
ABSTRACT ii

CHAPTER 1 1
1.1 Introduction 1
1.2 Seismology 1
1.3 Seismic Forces and Shake Table Analysis 3
1.3.1 Faults 3
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1.3.5 Building Reaction to Seismic Forces 8
1.4
1.5
1.6
CHAPTER 2 LITERATURE REVIEW 11
2.1 Research Paper 11
CHAPTER 3 NEED OF STUDY, OBJECTIVE & SCOPE 14
3.1 Need of study 14
3.2 Objective of Experiment 14
3.3 Scope of Work 15
CHAPTER 4 METHODOLOGY AND MATERIAL & PROPERTIES 16
4.1 Methodology 16
4.2 Amplitude and Phase Spectra of Absolute Responses of Three-Story 19
Building Frame Subjected to Harmonic Base Motion

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CHAPTER 5 RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 25
5.1 Experimental Setup 25
5.2
5.3
5.4
CHAPTER 6 CONCLUSION AND FUTURE SCOPE 52
REFERENCES 53

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LIST OF FIGURES
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Figure 1.3.1.1 Major Tectonic Plate Boundaries 4
Figure 1.3.1.2 Types of Faulting in the Earth's Crust 5
Figure 1.3.2.1 Types of Earthquake Waves 6
Figure 1.3.3.1 10 Freeway at Venice Boulevard 7
Figure 1.4.1 9
Figure 1.5.1 10
Figure 2.1.1 11
Figure 2.1.2 11
Figure 2.1.3 12
Figure 2.1.4 12

LIST OF TABLES

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Table 1.2.1 Fatalities of Major Earthquakes 1905-2014 3
Table 4.3.1 21
Table 4.3.2 21
Table 4.3.3 21
Table 5.2.1 28
Table 5.2.2 30
Table 5.3.1 Unit System 38
Table 5.3.2 Model (A4) > Geometry 39

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