Cool Fluid Power

Shake Table

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Fluid power can generate tremendous forces and motions that simulate the power of an earthquake, but on a scale that you can control in a testing laboratory. A giant table is supported by a number of hydraulic actuators that can shake the table in all six degrees of freedom, all three translations and all three rotations, fully simulating the actual motions of an earthquake.

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Video clip from Discovering Fluid Power