- Author
- Building Research Institute
- Title
- Modeling of Dynamic Behavior of Wood Structure. Workshop.
- Coporate
- Building Research Institute, Ibaraki, Japan
- Report
- BRI Proceedings No. 8
- Book or Conf
- Modeling of Dynamic Behavior of Wood Structure. Workshop. Proceedings. BRI Proceedings No. 8. Building Research Institute/Ministry of Construction. December 11-12, 1997, Japan, 213 p., 1997
- Keywords
- wooden structures | experiments | walls | plywood | housing | dynamic characteristics | earthquakes | construction | structures | material properties | cracking (fracturing) | friction | damage
- Identifiers
- Visual Projection Room of BRI, with eventual move for observation of a shaking table test at National Disaster Prevention Research Institue; experiments executed in BRI; experiments executed by FFPRI; experiments executed by the University of Tokyo Group; experiments executed by FORINTEK; experiments executed by North Carolina State University; experiments executed by Shizuoka University; experiments executed by University of British Colombia; dynamic response analysis; degree of freedom; viscous damping factor; modeling hysteresis
- Abstract
- This proceedings is a record of the Workshop on Modeling of Dynamic Behavior of Wood Structure held in Tsukuba on 11th-12th December 1997 when a series of shaking table tests on wood structure attained to its final stage. This series of shaking tests were executed in the framework of a 3-years research project on Improvement of Earthquake Resistance of Timber Structures conducted as a part of a Project for Establishing the General Earthquake Disaster Prevention Measures for Relieving the Citizen from Fear of Disaster and for Creating a Safe Urban Area organized by the Science and Technology Agency, Japanese Government. This workshop was organized for discussing on the results obtained through the above research project. The results of shake table tests had shown some tendencies obviously different from those presumed from the results of static and pseudo-dynamic tests. This fact shows that our actual model of dynamic behavior is far from completion. This time we could have participants not only from Japan but also from France, Italy, Canada, USA and Australia. All these participants are trying to establish a dynamic model from different approaches. The variety of approaches from quite a detailed approach to a stochastic global approach was expected to compensate each other and help us to find out a new solution. The discussion was quite animated and interesting. The proceedings being edited to reproduce the animated discussion, it includes the original papers submitted beforehand, additional information found on the place of presentation and the discussion followed the presentation. Though the publication was delayed so much, it is expected that this bring the most advanced, complete and valuable discussion on the modeling of Dynamic Behavior of Wood Structure to all the researchers interested in this problem.