Fabrication and Testing of a Laminar Shear Soil Box for a Shaking-Table Test
Publication: Practice Periodical on Structural Design and Construction
Volume 26, Issue 4
Abstract
A rectangular laminar shear rectangular soil box was designed and fabricated that consisted of multilayer steel frames to minimize the influence of the boundary effect of soil boxes used for the soil–structure shaking-table tests. Omnidirectional rolling bearings were placed between the vertical adjacent frames of the soil box, allowing the frame to rotate in any direction out of plane. The dynamic characteristics of the laminar shear soil box are analyzed based on computer modeling and the shaking table’s movement. Results showed that the natural frequency and damping ratio of the laminar shear soil box were considerably different from those of the soil sample. The acceleration of time history and the frequency spectrum of each measuring point at the same depth of the soil sample were highly consistent, and the boundary effect index associated with each measuring point was low. The influence of the boundary effect can be effectively eliminated using the laminar shear soil box; therefore, it can be used in the soil–structure shaking-table tests.
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Data Availability Statement
The ABAQUS finite-element model of the laminar shear soil box and data generated from the shaking-table test in this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.
Acknowledgments
This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51778149) and the Education Research Project for Young and Middle-Aged Teachers of Fujian Provincial Department of Education, China (Grant No. JAT191012).
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Volume 26 • Issue 4 • November 2021
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Received: Sep 27, 2020
Accepted: Apr 5, 2021
Published online: Jul 13, 2021
Published in print: Nov 1, 2021
Discussion open until: Dec 13, 2021
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