Abstract: Cross-laminated timber (CLT) is an engineered wood material that was introduced in the last decade as a promising candidate for building wood structures higher than 10 stories. Thus far, a handful of tall residential CLT ...

Abstract: A simplified mechanistic model is developed in this study to predict the lateral load resistance of coupled rocking walls made from cross-laminated timber (CLT) panels as an alternative to finite-element modeling. The model ...

Abstract: The hysteretic behavior of wood shear walls subjected to cyclic loading exhibit highly nonlinear force-displacement responses. There exists a careful balance between model complexity and necessary accuracy. In fact, the ...

Abstract: In this study, a prescriptive seismic design procedure for post-tensioned mass timber rocking wall lateral force–resisting systems is proposed. Unlike performance-based design approaches that employ nonlinear analysis, ...

Abstract: Forum papers are thought-provoking opinion pieces or essays founded in fact, sometimes containing speculation, on a civil engineering topic of general interest and relevance to the readership of the journal. The views ...