none 10.1177/87552930211020021 Wiley Wiley (John Wiley & Sons) 311 128157492 5867 2026012504045000507 10.1002 2026-01-25T13:43:29Z 2021-06-25T00:22:20Z 19 Earthquake Spectra Earthquake Spectra 8755-2930 1944-8201 11 2021 37 4 Michalis F Vassiliou Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geomatic Engineering ETH Zurich Zurich Switzerland https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4590-2126 Cihan Cengiz Department of Civil Engineering University of Bristol Bristol UK https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9475-8124 Matt Dietz Department of Civil Engineering University of Bristol Bristol UK Luiza Dihoru Department of Civil Engineering University of Bristol Bristol UK Marco Broccardo University of Trento Trento Italy https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4058-260X George Mylonakis Department of Civil Engineering University of Bristol Bristol UK Department of Civil & Infrastructure Engineering Khalifa University Abu Dhabi United Arab Emirates University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Los Angeles CA USA https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8455-8946 Anastasios Sextos Department of Civil Engineering University of Bristol Bristol UK https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2616-9395 Bozidar Stojadinovic Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geomatic Engineering ETH Zurich Zurich Switzerland https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1713-1977 In earthquake engineering, structural models are validated by performing a time history analysis and comparing its maximum to the maximum response obtained by a shake table test. It has been shown that this is a sufficient (but not a necessary) precondition to accept a numerical model. Numerical models can fail to predict the planar rocking response of a rigid block, but may succeed in predicting the statistics of the response to an ensemble of ground motions. As seismic response is inherently stochastic, comparison of the statistics of the numerically simulated response to the statistics of the experimentally obtained benchmark response for the same ensemble of earthquake excitation is a sufficient (and easier to pass) model validation test. This article describes the publicly available data of a set of 12 free rocking vibration and 115 shake table tests of six three‐dimensional rocking and sliding columns, designed at ETH Zurich and performed at EQUALS Laboratory, University of Bristol. 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