10-Story CLT Building for Shake Table Tests
San Diego, CA-
Bldg system
Mass Timber
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No. Of Stories
10
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Sq. footage
N/A
Part of the NHERI Tallwood Project, this 10-story structure has been built on the world’s largest outdoor shake table—located at UC San Diego—which reproduces severe earthquake ground motions for seismic testing. The shake table recently underwent a significant upgrade, and can reproduce a multi-dimensional earthquake with extreme accuracy.
The testing is part of a research project to develop and validate a resilient mass timber rocking shear wall system for tall wood buildings. After various types of modeling (including mechanistic modeling with several variants of post-tensioned rocking CLT wall systems) and development of a design methodology, the research team will conduct multiple shake table tests in two phases to validate the proposed design.
Learn more about the NHERI Tallwood Project.
Additional information on the NHERI Tallwood Project.
Read about the gravity design of the full-scale test building.
See the full list of collaborators.
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Construction Type:
Unknown
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Building Type:
Educational
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Material Types:
Mass Timber, Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT), Nail-Laminated Timber (NLT), Dowel-Laminated Timber (DLT), Glue-Laminated Timber (GLT or glulam), Structural Composite Lumber (e.g. LVL and LSL)
Companies Involved:
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LEVER Architecture
Architect
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Coughlin Porter Lundeen
TallWood Design and Construction Team
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Timberlab
TallWood Design and Construction Team
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Swinerton
TallWood Design and Construction Team
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Holmes
TallWood Design and Construction Team
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Simpson Strong-Tie
Mass Timber
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Boise Cascade
Mass Timber
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Freres Engineered Wood
Mass Plywood Panels
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SmartLam NA
Mass Timber
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DR Johnson
Mass Timber
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StructureCraft
TallWood Design and Construction Team
Individuals Involved:
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Jonathan Heppner
TallWood Design Construction Team
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Lucas Epp
TallWood Design and Construction Team
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Chris Duvall
TallWood Design and Construction Team
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Reid Zimmerman
TallWood Design and Construction Team
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Eric McDonnell
TallWood Design and Construction Team
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Christopher Evans
TallWood Design and Construction Team
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Graham Montgomery
TallWood Design and Construction Team