National research Institute for Earth science and Disaster prevention in Japan (NIED) is constructing
the so-called E-Defense or the world’s largest three-dimensional (3-D) full-scale shake table in Miki
city near Kobe. General view of E-Defense is shown in Photo 1. Shake table shown in Fig. 1 is located
in an experiment building and has the basic specifications shown in Table 1. The summary and the
construction of this facility were reported already by Ogawa (1999) and Ohtani (2003).
Experiment Building Preparation