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REVIEW article
Front. Built Environ.
Sec. Earthquake Engineering
Volume 11 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fbuil.2025.1573390
This article is part of the Research Topic NHERI 2015-2025: A Decade of Discovery in Natural Hazards Engineering View all 7 articles
MULTI-DEGREE OF FREEDOM SHAKE TABLE TESTING OF LARGE-SCALE STRUCTURAL AND GEOTECHNICAL SYSTEMS WITH NHERI-UCSD LHPOST6
Provisionally accepted
John McCartney *
Lelli Van Den Einde 
Machel Leigh Morrison 
Alessandro Palermo 
Georgios Tsampras Koorosh Lotfizadeh 
Chin-Tai Lai 
Joel Pascal Conte - University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, United States
This paper focuses on the abilities of the Large High-Performance Outdoor Shake Table (LHPOST6) at UC San Diego to investigate the combined effects of realistic near-field translational and rotational earthquake ground motions applied as dynamic excitation to 3-D and large-or full-scale structural, geotechnical, or soil-foundation-structural systems. The LHPOST6 supports the advancement of innovative materials, manufacturing methods, detailing, earthquake protective systems, seismic retrofit methods, and construction methods, and is a driving force towards improving seismic design codes and standards and developing transformative seismicresistant concepts. This paper provides: (i) a brief overview of the 6-DOF capabilities of the LHPOST6 facility; (ii) an overview of the research projects conducted so far at the LHPOST6 facility focusing on the performance of the facility, and (iii) new seismic research opportunities
Keywords: Shake table testing, structural systems, Geotechnical systems, earthquake engineering, Retrofits
Received: 09 Feb 2025; Accepted: 10 Mar 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 McCartney, Van Den Einde, Morrison, Palermo, Tsampras, Lotfizadeh, Lai and Conte. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
John McCartney, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, United States
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