OSU Three-Story Pivoting Mass Timber Test
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Design, cyclic testing, and numerical modeling of a three-story mass timber building with pivoting walls and buckling-restrained energy dissipators.
Overview
As part of my MS research at Oregon State University with the TallWood Design Institute, I worked on the design, experimental testing, and numerical modeling of a three-story mass timber building with pivoting mass ply panel walls and buckling-restrained energy dissipators at the boundary.
Key publication: Araújo R. et al. (2025), Journal of Structural Engineering.
Testing videos
Cyclic testing of the three-story mass timber building, Oregon State University, November 2022.
Close-up of pivoting wall motion during the test, November 2022.
Collaborators
Profs. Barbara G. Simpson, Andre R. Barbosa, and Arijit Sinha (Oregon State University); TallWood Design Institute partners.