Next generation high-performance earthquake-resilient tall buildings

Return to current laboratory activities amidst COVID19 safety measures
UBC Smart Structure is resuming this week its research activities in the Structures Laboratory with a series of effective controls in place to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Workspace Safety Plan – Tony Yang Structures Lab June12-2020
Next generation high-performance earthquake-resilient tall buildings
Next-generation earthquake engineering design seeks to develop robust structural systems that have controlled structural and non-structural damage after strong earthquake shaking.
11NCEE
UBC Smart Structures participated in the 11th United States National Conference on Earthquake Engineering (11NCEE), Los Angeles, CA.
EP Week 2018
UBC Smart Structures participated in the Emergency Preparedness Week 2018 at Canada Place, Vancouver, BC.
Laboratory Facilities for Experimental Testing
UBC Smart Structures Research Group recently developed different solutions for testing structural components and structures. Current infrastructure can support element level experiments under monotonic, cyclic and hybrid protocols for axial and shear demands. System level experiments can be done with the uni-directional shake-table developed in UBC Structures Laboratory. UBC Smart Structures Research Group is also part […]
Welded Wide Flange Fuse (WWFF)
In this study, the force-deformation relationship of the WWFF is investigated through experiment and numerical modelling. The effects of size, slenderness and aspect ratios of the WWFF was examined. Overall, the experimental results show that the newly proposed WWFF is a cost effective, reliable and efficient metallic damper.
Equivalent Energy Design Procedure for Earthquake Resilient Fused Structures
An alternative procedure which uses the energy-balanced concept with plastic analysis is proposed to design fused SFRSs that can achieve different performance objectives under different levels of earthquake shaking intensities. This design procedure is named the equivalent energy design procedure (EEDP).
The 1st China-Canada Symposium on Structural and Earthquake Engineering (CCSSEE)
The 1st CCSSEE was successfully hosted at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, from August 20-24, 2017. Over 180 participants from 26 Chinese and Canadian universities participated in this symposium, which provides an unique international and multidisciplinary platform of communication and discussion. Click here to access the event website.
Switch-based Hybrid Simulation Technology for Earthquake Engineering Applications
A switch-based hybrid simulation (SHS) method is developed, which combines analytical and experimental sub-assemblies to examine the dynamic responses of a structure during an earthquake shaking.
OpenSees Navigator tutorials available
Three new tutorials for OpenSeesNavigator are available here. The tutorial videos walk you through the procedure to model and analyse a truss, 2D frame, and 3D frame structure in Navigator.