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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.