Tests Study of a 1:20 Scale Steel-concrete Hybrid Structure

Abstract

Abstract The seismic resistance of a 36-storey high-rise structure with the height of 149 m is studied in this paper. The simulated earthquake shaking table tests have been performed on 1/20 scaled model of the steel-concrete hybrid structure. The steel-concrete hybrid structure is composed of the surrounding diagrid, the reinforced concrete core tube, the floor slab, the beam of floor. The dynamic properties and the seismic behaviour have been analysed by the shaking table test based on the measurement method on the natural vibration frequency and the damage of the model structure. The test results have shown that the phenomena of failure occurred in some components after undergoing the earthquakes of the different fortification levels. The buckling failures occur in the inclined column of the diagrid on the higher floors, the horizontal cracks in the core walls of the higher floors has been appeared, and also the damages occur in the connection between the concrete core tube, the inclined beam of floor and the span beam. Since these inclined column and the key joints between the concrete core tube and the beam have been damaged seriously in the shaking table test, the detailed theoretical analysis is required to avoid the local structural damage.