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Timber Structures Lab
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The lab studies the long-term seismic safety of timber structures based on the properties of wood.
AboutAbout the lab
Exploring the long-term seismic safety of timber structures.
The Timber Structures Lab studies timber structures that use wood and wood-based materials as structural members.
Wood has complex mechanical properties such as heterogeneity, anisotropy, and nonlinearity, making it a material whose behavior is difficult to predict accurately.
To ensure seismic safety over the long service life of buildings, the lab works on a wide range of research, from basic studies to technology development.
Key terms
- Anisotropy
- The property of having characteristics that change depending on direction.
- Viscoelasticity
- The property of showing both elasticity, the tendency to return to the original shape when a force is applied, and viscosity, in which deformation progresses over time.
- Vibration control device
- A device attached to a building to reduce shaking caused by earthquakes and other forces.
ResearchResearch themes
The lab works on a wide range of research, from basic studies to technology development, needed to ensure the long-term seismic safety of timber structures. Its main research themes are seismic safety evaluation that takes the viscoelasticity of wood into account, frictional properties of wood surfaces, seismic design methods for timber houses with added vibration control devices, and evaluation of the stiffness and strength of wood and large-section wood-based materials.
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- Associate ProfessorToshiaki Sato
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Goshen timber frame roof system” Bpickartz / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
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