Abstract: In seismically active regions, the use of timber–reinforced concrete (RC) hybrid construction can overcome the structural limitations that occur with timber construction. This paper investigates three connections used in ...

Abstract: The rapid growth of urban populations and the environmental concerns associated with this growth challenge city planners and developers to consider more sustainable building systems. In Japan, the recent change in the law ...

Abstract: The design procedure considered in the Japanese code for low-rise timber houses (two or fewer stories), is through a wall volume method. The wall volume method entails calculating the shear capacity of each wall through ...

Abstract: From our investigation of the experimental seismic response of post-and-beam wooden buildings with different column joints, we developed a nonlinear three-dimensional distinct element model that is capable of time-history ...

Abstract: Seismic responses of various buildings are calculated by a three-dimensional (3D) linear method for examining the soil-building interaction based on an input seismic wave field in the reclaimed zone of Tokyo Bay in which ...

Abstract: Immediately after the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake series, a detailed damage assessment of more than 2,500 wooden houses was conducted at Mashiki Town, Kumamoto. Severe structural and nonstructural components damages were ...

Abstract: To promote the development of cross-laminated timber (CLT) structures, the Japanese Government Notifications on Structural Design of CLT Buildings (GN 611) was issued in 2016. In GN 611, three types of platform-framing CLT ...

Abstract: In the summer of 2009, a full-scale midrise wood-frame building was tested under a series of simulated earthquakes on the world’s largest shake table in Miki City, Japan. The objective of this series of tests was to validate ...