Lehigh webinar, April 13: Design and Retrofit Methodologies with John van de Lindt

[announce at designsafe-ci.org]

*Design and Retrofit Methodologies for Buildings: Full-Building
Experimental Validation for Performance and Urban Resilience*



*Hosted by Lehigh University*




*April 13, 2018 12:00 - 1:00 pm Eastern*

Register on the DesignSafe website:
https://www.designsafe-ci.org/learning-center/training/workshops/lehigh-ef/2018/design-and-retrofit-methodologies-buildings/

Speaker: John W. van de Lindt, PhD, F. ASCE, Professor, Colorado State
University

*About the webinar:* Resilient buildings are a necessary but not
necessarily sufficient condition to achieve urban resilience to
earthquakes. Woodframe buildings make up the vast majority of the
residential building stock in North America, which in turn makes them a
critical sub-sector of the physical infrastructure within a city or
community. In this presentation, the results of two major NSF- sponsored
projects will be presented in the context of achieving urban resilience.
NEESWood: Development of a Performance- Based Seismic Design Philosophy for
Mid-Rise Woodframe Construction, culminated with the world’s largest shake
table test on a six-story woodframe condominium in Miki, Japan; and
NEES-Soft: Seismic Risk Reduction for Soft-Story Woodframe Buildings
consisted of two major full-scale test programs including a five-phase
four-story shake table testing project at UCSD that ended in collapse
testing. The need for full-scale whole building tests will be explained and
some discussion of current plans for the resilient seismic design of tall
wood buildings and whole-building tests at UCSD discussed.



*About the speaker.* John W. van de Lindt is the George T. Abell
Distinguished Professor in Infrastructure in the Department of Civil and
Environmental Engineering at Colorado State University. Over the last two
decades Dr. van de Lindt’s research program has sought to improve the built
environment by making structures and structural systems perform to the
level expected by their occupants, government, and the public. This has
been primarily through the development of performance-based engineering and
test bed applications of building systems for earthquakes, hurricanes,
tsunamis, tornadoes and floods. His work includes both the development of
new nonlinear numerical models and a large number of experimental
investigations to calibrate those models and support hypotheses. He has
served as the PI of a number of NSF projects utilizing a number of NEES and
NHERI shared-use facilities.
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