ABSTRACT
Researchers from UC Davis and Fugro West, Inc., recently completed model testing of the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) District’s Transbay Tube (TBT) that connects Oakland to San Francisco. The centrifuge models were perhaps the most complete boundary value problem ever tested at the Davis centrifuge and are discussed here as a state of the art example for testing at Davis. Two centrifuge tests were performed to study the stability and to confirm the uplift mechanisms of the BART TBT during an earthquake. Kutter et al (2008) describe the project in detail and Chou and Kutter (2010) present some results of the two centrifuge model tests in these proceedings.
