Optional Equipment
can be provided that includes sample models for study including a multi-story building, piping system, water tank, and base isolated simulated electronic cabinet.
The ANCO Model R-191 provides the following educational options to teachers and students:
- Demonstrates the concept that all structures have several modes and resonant frequencies.
- Shows how different types of earthquake motion cause different structural responses, such as, soil conditions or earthquake size and distance.
- Illustrates the nature of structural damping.
- Allows students to compete to build the most earthquake resistant structure according to various design principles and material constraints.
- Demonstrates the effectiveness of proper design versus inadequate design and how small changes can result in large safety margins.
- Demonstrates proper anchorage and safety measures of nonstructural equipment in a home or office.
- Enhances the students’ understanding of energy distribution in an earthquake motion and how the energy distribution affects a structure’s earthquake response.
- Allows the table to be used as a vibrator to excite a lab structure and demonstrate that real structures have resonant frequencies.
- Enables students to experience signal generation and processing in a servo control system.
- Enables students to perform structural control experiments.
- All of these topics are covered by the experiments described in the user manual which also includes quizzes to assess student comprehension.
