Today we turned the shake table on for the first time and performed three tests on the sand bed to learn about the sand properties, including the shear wave velocity. While we didn’t see much movement, it was still amazing to get the table up and running and actually start shaking. I was pretty excited.
For the rest of the day, I spent my time measuring, spooling and zip-tying 162 cables which will be used to connect the 152 pile strain gages and 10 pile head accelerometers after we install the piles. Each cable needed to be at least 80 feet long and I’m still working on removing old labels. Tomorrow I will work on sorting and re-labeling all the cables with our strain gage identification on both ends and stripping the ends of the wires for quicker connections next week.
Torcsill got to the site around 3 pm PST today with the piles and installation equipment after a 20 hour haul from Oklahoma and we will spend tomorrow (Friday) getting ready for installation on Monday.
Awesome day for Team Cerato!
Do you think your last published schedule is still accurate, or are you ahead somewhat? I’m schedule to fly in on 2/17.
Keep up the great work!
Bill
Bill, I think the schedule is pretty accurate right now. I think the best days to see a shake will be the 17th or 18th. I’ll keep everyone posted if it changes. It all depends on where we are this Friday. If we haven’t done our shake on just the piles by Friday, then we probably won’t shake the inertial weights until the 18th or 19th.