I want to ask a question, about the loading protocol, which is very important, mostly in literature, 2 types of instrumental assemblie were used, 1) first one is to apply the axial load on the top of column and lateral load as well on column almost at distance 300cm from the lower pin of column.
2) second one is, to apply lateral load on beam,
So my question is which one instrumentation will be best and is the placement of strain gauges will be changed in both cases or will remain same.