Shake Table Testing and Numerical Simulation of Raised Access Floor - Computer Rack Systems in a Full-Scale Five-Story Building

A full-scale, 5-story building was designed and constructed on the NEES-UCSD shake table. The building is outfitted with a wide range of common nonstructural components and systems (NCSs). Amongst these are two large computer servers donated by industry, with one supported on a raised access floor and the other conventionally anchored to the floor slab. In this paper we present the scope of the broader test program, an overview of its building structural design and numerical modeling, and relevant to this session, pre-test numerical simulation of the access floor - computer rack system. Pending the test schedule, preliminary test results for the computer rack - access floor system may be presented at the conference.