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Testing of Tsunami waves against a reinforced concrete core wall. The specimen was instrumented with three different types of instruments to measure load, pressure sensors on the front face of the specimen, strain gauges on the piles that supported the specimen, and load cells measuring the total force on the setup. Stream-wise force, wave height, and velocity data are presented as averages across all trials conducted for this experiment.
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1.4m Wave
Testing of Tsunami waves against a reinforced concrete core wall. The specimen was instrumented with three different types of instruments to measure load, pressure sensors on the front face of the specimen, strain gauges on the piles that supported the specimen, and load cells measuring the total force on the setup. The test specimen was placed inside a soil box with three different levels of soil examined to determine if changing the soil level changed the force in the support piles. Steam-wise force data was averaged across all trials for a given soil height and is presented for the three different force measurement techniques for the three different soil heights investigated. Wave gauge and ADV measurements are averaged across all trials for the given wave height.
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- Award ID(s):
- 1726326
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- 10381989
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- Designsafe-CI
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- Analysis of the Data Information on test setup and specimen construction Stream-wise force data Free surface elevation and velocity Data Instrumentation Experimental Results for 1.4m Wave Testing of a Reinforced Concrete Core Wall for Tsunami Vertical Evacuation Shelters in a Wave Flume Ohhwrl-Oregon
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- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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