E-Defense

E-Defense
E-ディフェンス
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General information
LocationMiki, Hyōgo
CountryJapan
Coordinates34°46′42″N 135°03′19″E / 34.7784°N 135.0554°E / 34.7784; 135.0554

The 3-D Full-Scale Earthquake Testing Facility[1] or E-Defense (Japanese: E-ディフェンス) is an earthquake shaking table facility in Miki, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan.[2] Operated by the Japanese National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience (NIED),[3] it is the largest 3D earthquake shake table in the world.[2][3][4]

A building on the shake table
  1. ^ Horiuchi, Toshihiko; Ohsaki, Makoto; Kurata, Masahiro; Ramirez, Julio A.; Yamashita, Takuzo; Kajiwara, Koichi (2022). "Contributions of E-Defense Shaking Table to Earthquake Engineering and its Future". Journal of Disaster Research. 17 (6): 985–999. doi:10.20965/jdr.2022.p0985.
  2. ^ a b "Largest 3D earthquake shake table". Guinness World Records. Retrieved 26 September 2024.
  3. ^ a b Nakashima, Masayoshi; Nagae, Takuya; Enokida, Ryuta; Kajiwara, Koichi (January 2018). "Experiences, accomplishments, lessons, and challenges of E-defense—Tests using world's largest shaking table". Japan Architectural Review. 1 (1): 4–17. doi:10.1002/2475-8876.10020. ISSN 2475-8876.
  4. ^ "Japan's record-breaking quake shaking table". New Scientist. Retrieved 2024-10-14.