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Seismic Resiliency of Repetitively Framed Mid-Rise Cold-Formed Steel Buildings
As a capstone to the multi-university-industry collaborative CFS-NHERI project, a full-scale 10-story CFS-framed building is planned for seismic testing under increasing, multi-directional earthquake motion intensity and subsequent live fire testing. This collaboration follows on successful prior system-level 2-story (CFS-NEES) and 6-story (CFS-HUD) efforts of the team.
Beyond-code, state-of-the-art CFS building
Residual Axial & Lateral Load Carrying Capacity of Pile Supported Marine Terminal Exhibiting Seismically-induced Local Buckling in Inground Plastic Hinge
The intent of this project is to evaluate the performance of the in-ground hinge of steel pipe piles under lateral cyclic loading and axial loading to verify current strain limits used in performance-based design of marine structures supported by steel pipe piles, such as piers, docks and other water
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Converging Design Methodology: Multi-objective Optimization of Resilient Structural Spines
The goal of this project is to integrate functionality-based design and multi-objective optimization into a single converging design paradigm that will support resilient, sustainable seismic solutions for lateral force resisting systems.
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Development and Validation of a Resilience-based Seismic Design Methodology for Tall Wood Buildings: Capstone Test
With global urbanization trends, the demands for tall residential and mixed-use buildings in the range of 8~20 stories are increasing. One new structural system in this height range are tall wood buildings which have been built in select locations around the world using a relatively new heavy timber structural material known as cross laminated timber (CLT). However, the majority of existing tall CLT buildings are located in non-seismic or low-seismic regions of the world.