Our group had the opportunity to participate in the Stanford Engineering Centennial Showcase, where we presented our research on Mass Timber Rocking Walls with Buckling-Restrained Boundary Elements (BRBs)—a system targeting sustainable and seismic structural performance.
At the event, we showed a scaled physical model subjected to a ground motion record, illustrating the dynamic rocking motion of the wall with post-tensioning for self centering and energy dissipation. We also shared key findings from our recent large-scale tests conducted in UC San Diego and discussed the next steps in our research: Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering (PBEE) and multi-objective optimization to translate seismic and sustainable performance objectives into building design parameters for early-stage design.
Students participating in showcase: Morgan McBain, Akiri Seki, Gustavo Araújo, Sergio Chimal.
Advisor: Professor Barbara Simpson
Special thanks to Professor Kyle Douglas and James Fillice for helping us set the shaking table!
Learn more about the project here:
https://tallwoodinstitute.org/nheri-converging-design/
https://www.designsafe-ci.org/data/browser/public/designsafe.storage.published/PRJ-5736
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