A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
This discusses the strategy, method and progress of an integrated series of studies aimed at rectifying major deficiencies in design of low-rise light-frame timber buildings. An industrial shed with an open interior is already being monitored to determine environmental forces applied to it, and how those forces flow from surfaces over which they are applied to the foundation. Two single story houses are being specially constructed for the research and will yield information about loads on, and flow of forces within, what are relatively complex structural arrangements. Experimentation is linked to full-scale laboratory studies and whole-building finite element modeling. Expected outcomes include improved design code provisions for wind load, and development and validation of practical methods for sizing components in superstructures.
This discusses the strategy, method and progress of an integrated series of studies aimed at rectifying major deficiencies in design of low-rise light-frame timber buildings. An industrial shed with an open interior is already being monitored to determine environmental forces applied to it, and how those forces flow from surfaces over which they are applied to the foundation. Two single story houses are being specially constructed for the research and will yield information about loads on, and flow of forces within, what are relatively complex structural arrangements. Experimentation is linked to full-scale laboratory studies and whole-building finite element modeling. Expected outcomes include improved design code provisions for wind load, and development and validation of practical methods for sizing components in superstructures.
Monitoring of Environmental Loads on Timber Buildings
Structures Congress 2004 ; 2004 ; Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Structures 2004 ; 1-10
2004-05-21
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
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