A REVIEW OF LARGE-SCALE TESTING FACILITIES IN GEOTECHNICAL EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING - Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering - page 121

Fig. 5.31. The LCPC shaker, laminar box, and aMexico earthquake
record simulated at 50g—Comparison between therecorded acceleration (inblue)
and the specified values (in red)
Fig. 5.32. Left toright:2D shaker ofUC Davis that can deliver horizontal
and vertical shaking, 2D shaker of the University of Hong Kong (twohorizontal
directions) (Shen et al.,1998), and 2Dshaker at RPI (two horizontal directions),
and RPI 2D Laminar Container
in real time onto the NEES network (http://nees.ucdavis.edu/). A robot has also been
installed on the RPI centrifuge (http://nees.rpi.edu/) along with the new 2D shaker (hori-
zontal X- and Y-axis).
In Europe, there is a need to establish a network similar to USA-NEES. As a prelim-
inary step in that direction, the centres within UK dealing with earthquake modelling,
i.e.theshakingtablefacilityatBristol,thegeotechnicalcentrifugefacilityatCambridge,