A densely instrumented system of large-scale underground structures consisting of two vertical shafts connected through a cut-and-cover tunnel and two independent shield tunnels was installed in an 8 m-diameter laminar soil box at the E-Defense shake table in Miki, Japan. The system was subjected to step-sine sweeps and scaled ground motion records of the Kobe (1995) earthquake. The underground structures were embedded in Albany Silica Sand with an average relative density of 54%. System instrumentation consisted of over 800 sensors, including strain gauges, accelerometers, displacement transducers, bender elements and pressure sensors. A U.S.-Japanese research collaboration was established to instrument the vertical shaft elements and record seismic soil pressures. Data records are archived at the NHERI DesignSafe Data Depot_and can be used to analyze the structural response, soil-structure interaction and other response parameters of individual subsurface components as well as the entire system. The DOI for the data set is 10.17603/DS21C78.
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