<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span><font color="#ff0000"><b><font size="4"><span><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace;display:inline" class="gmail_default"><span style="font-weight:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"></span></span><span><font color="#ff0000"><b><font size="4"><span>Full-scale shake table test of a Resilient Mass Timber Building: <br>How to survive 14 earthquakes without major damage</span></font><span style="font-size:12.8px"></span></b></font></span><br></div></span></font></b><b><font size="4"><span></span></font></b></font></span><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"></span><br><b style="font-size:12.8px"><div style="font-size:small;display:inline"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><div class="gmail_quote" style="display:inline">Dr. <div class="gmail_quote" style="display:inline"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Ling<div style="font-family:monospace,monospace;display:inline" class="gmail_default"> </div>Pei</font><br><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace;display:inline" class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering</font><br><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Colorado School of Mines</font></div></div></div></font></div></b><br><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><b><br></b></span></font><span class="gmail-im"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"></span>As
part of a National Science Foundation funded research project (the
NHERI TallWood Project) led by Colorado School of Mines, a full-scale
two-story mass timber building was tested at the NHERI@UCSD large
out-door shake table facility in summer 2017. The test include three
phases with different lateral system options. This presentation will be
focused on the first phase of the test featuring an innovative resilient
post-tensioned rocking wall made of cross laminated timber (CLT)
panels. The building was subjected to a series of 14 earthquake ground
motion excitations. The building was able to re-center and remain
essentially damage-free after all these extreme loading events,
highlighting the resilient nature of the mass timber structural system.</span><br><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span><b style="font-size:12.8px"><div style="font-size:small;display:inline"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace;display:inline" class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Wednesday, December 6th</font></div></font></div></b><b style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">, 2017</font></b><br><b style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:13px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><div style="font-size:small;display:inline"><div style="display:inline"><div style="display:inline"><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace;display:inline" class="gmail_default">11</div>-<div style="font-family:monospace,monospace;display:inline" class="gmail_default">12</div> pm</div> </div></div> (Mountain Time)</font></span></b><br><b 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