Lehigh Seminar, Nov 29: Brief History of Wood Seismic Research

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*Brief History of Wood Seismic Research:From light-framed wood system to
mass timber*

*NHERI Lehigh Seminar Series, Nov. 29, noon - 1 pm Eastern*

*Speaker: Shiling Pei, PhD, Assistant Professor, Colorado School of Mines*

Wood has thousands of years of history as a building material but has also
been restricted by building codes and regulations following the industrial
revolution. Wood building is viewed as a cost-effective, but less
engineered system mainly for low-rise options. Mass timber construction is
a relatively new way of utilizing wood material for
modern, high-performance buildings at both large and small scales. It gives
rise to the currently trending conception of wooden skyscrapers. This
presentation will provide a brief history of wood seismic research, discuss
the pros and cons of wood structural systems based on finding of past
research efforts, and introduce the current trend of building with mass
timber, including an ongoing NHERI TallWood Project
<http://nheritallwood.mines.edu/> to develop resilience-based seismic
design.

DETAILS and REGISTRATION: DesignSafe-CI website
<https://www.designsafe-ci.org/learning-center/seminar-171129/>

Questions? Contact Chad Kusko <chk205 at lehigh.edu>.
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