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Buildings: Full-Building Experimental Validation for Performance and Urban
Resilience<span></span></span></b></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background:white;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">April 13, 2018<br>
12:00 - 1:00 pm Eastern<span></span></span></b></p>
<p style="background:white;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9.5pt;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Register on the DesignSafe website: <span></span></span><font face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.6667px"><a href="https://www.designsafe-ci.org/learning-center/training/workshops/lehigh-ef/2018/design-and-retrofit-methodologies-buildings/">https://www.designsafe-ci.org/learning-center/training/workshops/lehigh-ef/2018/design-and-retrofit-methodologies-buildings/</a></span></font></p><p style="background:white;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:9.5pt">Speaker:
John W. van de Lindt, PhD, F. ASCE, Professor, Colorado State University</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background:white;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">About the webinar:</span></b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> 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. <span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background:white;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">About the speaker.</span></b><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> 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.<span></span></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background:white;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;background:white;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><img src="cid:ii_jfmr5li20_16296b2c7fc15863" width="316" height="79" style="margin-right: 0px;"><br><br></span></p>
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