The Hyogoken-Nanbu earthquake occurred in Kobe area of Japan in 1995. Considering the lessons learned from the disaster, the National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention (NIED) is now constructing a three-demensional full scale earthquake testing facility. In order to develop new control and operation methods for shaking tables with time-varying test models, we have studied dynamic interaction between a shaking table and a bi-linear test model by using the two-demensional small shaking table of NIED, and applied MCS algorithm procedure, one of the model reference adaptive control methods, to the system for studying the efficacy of the procedure. Satisfactory results were obtained from this study.