Improving community resilience is a complex endeavour that begins at the material level with the interaction of connectors that form the energy dissipation mechanisms in mass timber walls and frames. These directly contribute to the behaviour of resilient buildings and structures with integrated technologies such as post-tensioning. Buildings are a necessary but not sufficient condition for community resilience and thus other systems and networks within a community must be considered ranging from water, electric power, households, and businesses.
Participants
John W. van de Lindt, Professor, Colorado State University
Moderator and Workshop Chair
14:00 – 14:00
Steve Pryor, Manager, Advanced R&D, Simpson Strong-Tie
The Devil is in The Details – Reimagining Connections for Enhanced Structural Resilience
14:00 – 14:35
Steve Pryor is a structural engineer from earthquake-prone California in the western region of the United States. He has been with Simpson Strong-Tie for 27 years and currently serves as their Advanced Research Manager. Prior to joining Simpson, Steve was a practicing structural engineer in California designing residential, commercial, and industrial facilities. Steve has participated in a number of building code committees and has authored numerous papers. With a ca-reer dedicated to understanding the seismic performance of structures, Steve has led Simpson’s partnerships with many universities in ground-breaking research into performance-based seismic design, soft-story retrofits, and post-tensioned mass timber rocking walls. He has developed new structural steel lateral force resisting systems. Along with many others at Simpson Strong-Tie, Steve has a passion for trying to find practical solutions to difficult structural problems.
Asif Iqbal, Associate Professor, University of Northern British Columbia
Low-Damage Mass Timber Walls and Frame Systems for Seismic Resilience: New Zealand and Canadian Initiatives
14:35 – 15:10
Asif Iqbal is an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering at the University of Northern British Columbia. He completed his PhD at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. His research interests include seismic analysis and design, and structural control systems for seismic applications.
Shoichi Nakashima, Building Research Institute
Mass Timber Seismic Resilience R&D in Japan: Full-Scale Shake Table Testing with a Vertical Damper System
15:10 – 15:45
Dr. Nakashima has a background in both engineering and agriculture. Before joining BRI Dept. of Structural Engineering, he engaged as JSPS research fellowship at RISH, Kyoto University, and served as an assistant professor at Utsunomiya University. His research focuses on the development of structural design methods for joints in mass timber buildings, as well as the seismic resilience performance of wooden structures, including both traditional wooden houses and modern mass timber buildings.
Break
15:45 – 16:15
Andre R. Barbosa, Professor, Structural Engineering, Oregon State University
Overview of U.S. Mass Timber Shake Table Test Programs: Resilience, Sustainability, and Convergence
16:15 – 16:50
Professor Andre Barbosa is the Cecil and Sally Drinkward Professor in Structural Engineering at Oregon State University (OSU). He holds an Honorary Professor position at the University of Bristol and an Adjunct Professor position at the Composite Materials & Engineering Center at the Washington State University. His research focuses on the development of experimental testing programs and numerical tools and techniques geared towards improving structural performance and resilience of the built environment to multiple hazards. Barbosa has co-authored more than 100 journal publications in top-tier peer-reviewed journals and has delivered more than 50 international conference presentations. He has received various awards, such as the 2017 State of Oregon Daily Journal of Commerce Newsmaker for contributions to the Cross-Laminated Timber Industry and the 2023 ASCE Croes Medal for work on soil-structure interaction. Before joining OSU in 2011, Barbosa completed a Ph.D. in Structural Engineering at the University of California in San Diego (UCSD). Prior to starting his Ph.D. in 2005, he worked for seven years as a structural engineer in Portugal.
John W. van de Lindt, Professor, Colorado State University
Whole Multidisciplinary Community Modeling with an Integrated Resilient Mass Timber Building Stock
16:50 – 17:25
Dr. John W. van de Lindt is the Harold H. Short Endowed Chair Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Colorado State University. He has conducted more than 50 research projects related to buildings and other systems related to earthquakes, hurricanes, tsunamis, tornadoes and floods. Van de Lindt led both the NEESWood and NEES-Soft project teams between 2005 and 2013 which consisted of two-story, four-story, and six-story shake table tests on the world’s largest shake tables including in Miki Japan and San Diego, California. He is the past Chair of ASCE’s Technical Administrative Committee for the Structural Engineering Institute. He is the Co-director for the National Institute of Standards and Technology-funded Center of Excellence (COE) for Risk-Based Community Resilience Planning headquartered at Colorado State University. Professor van de Lindt led the project to introduce CLT into U.S. building standards and codes as an approved seismic force resisting system, and served as a Co-PI for NHERI Tallwood and NHERI Converging Design Projects. He has published more than 450 technical articles and reports including more than 260 journal papers, served on a number of editorial boards, and is the Editor-in-Chief of the ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering.
John W. van de Lindt, Professor, Colorado State University
Panel Discussion “Taking Mass Timber into Practice” with Audience Q&A
17:25 – 18:00
MR 119 – 120
Andre R. Barbosa, Asif Iqbal, John W. van de Lindt, Shoichi Nakashima, Steve Pryor
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