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INTRODUCTION
This web page presents a Taiwan-Canada transnational collaborative pseudo-dynamic (PsD) experiment of a multiple-span Double-Skinned Concrete-Filled Tube (DSCFT) bridge system, simulating its dynamic responses induced by a series bi-lateral ground motions. The PsD experiment of testing three DSCFT piers of the bridge system will be carried out at three geographically distributed laboratories over long distance. They are located at the National Center for Research on Earthquake Engineering (NCREE), National Taiwan University (NTU), and Carleton University (CU), respectively. Two of the remotes sites will be in Taiwan while the third remote site will be in Canada, making the test the first cross-continent collaborative networked hybrid test of large scale specimens. The rest parts of the bridge are numreically simulated by pseudo-dynamic analysis engines based on 3-dimensional finite element analysis programs. The latest version of ISEE (Internet-based Simulation for Earthquake Engineering) system is employed for the experiment.

 
 


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