Measurement and Data Acquisition Equipment for the Shock Table Facility at IOE Pulchowk

Overview

Mahavir Shree International Pvt. Ltd. supplied and delivered specialized measurement equipment for a Shock Table testing facility at the Institute of Engineering (IoE), Pulchowk, Lalitpur, Nepal, under reference MSI-PRJ-76-2152. The project was led by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and was completed in June 2021 over a six-month duration.

The facility, established by UNDP at IOE Pulchowk, supports evaluation of structural response and development of retrofitting techniques.

Scope & Deliverables

• Sensing hardware: KS48C accelerometers, Multisense linear potentiometers, and ASM linear displacement transducers.
• Data acquisition: Dewetron Trionet modules with OXYGEN software.
• Recording systems: Hioki Memory HiLoggers for data capture.
• Shock table instrumentation for evaluating how structures withstand earthquake forces.

Outcome

The sensing, data acquisition, and recording equipment was commissioned and handed over to IoE Pulchowk. The Shock Table facility now provides engineers with structural response data to inform the design of earthquake-resistant buildings and retrofitting measures in Nepal.