Timber-steel hybrid lateral load resisting system

Timber-concrete floor systems

Timber connections

Engineered wood products and composites

Wood quality and lumber properties

Non-destructive evaluation

Structural dynamics

Wind hazard mitigation and computational fluid dynamics

Structural health monitoring and condition assessment

Nonlinear system identification and damage detection

Resilient civil space structures and bridges in multi-hazard environments

Fire Science and Engineering

Fire Research

Wood Structures and Fire Safety

Building Codes Development

Standards Development

Fire Testing

Earthquake engineering

Structural dynamics

Full scale vibration testing

Shake table testing

Seismic risk evaluation and hazard management studies

Investigation of earthquake effects on man-made structures

Seismic design

Retrofit and analysis of wood structures

Seismic loss estimation

Hurricane-induced loss estimation

Bamboo reinforced concrete as a sustainable alternative to steel reinforced concrete

Tornado hazard modeling

Catastrophic loss modeling

Culvert deterioration prediction model

Develop fundamental knowledge on the performance of solid-sawn timber

Wood-based composites and engineered wood systems

Improve the utilization of structural wood products

Address issues relevant to the forest products industries in the field of timber engineering and wood-based composites mechanics

Seismic behavior and design of steel

Concrete and composite structures

Seismic behavior and design of tall buildings

Develop performance-based evaluation methodology and code design procedures for new and existing structures

Energy dissipation systems

Performance-based wind and seismic design

Seismic risk assessment of mass timber buildings

Self-centering systems

Uncertainty modeling and propagation

Aeroelastic instability of structures

Wind directionality

Hybrid aeroelastic wind tunnel testing

Tall buildings with supplemental damping systems

Near-collapse behavior of structures subjected to strong non-synoptic wind systems

Vibration serviceability design of mass timber floor systems

Dynamic properties of tall wood buildings

Timber concrete composite floor systems

Prefabricated hollow panel system using structural composite lumber

Impact sound insulation performance of mass timber floor systems

Structure-borne sound generation and transmission in mass timber buildings

Tower and mast structures

Steel structures

Timber structures

Wind and seismic resisitance

Structures for wind power

Seismic design of building structures

Building monitoring

Identification and reinforcement

Timber structure

Estimation and analyses of mechanical properties of various wooden structural components and structures

Development of high performance houses and mid-rise/ large-scale buildings by utilizing wooden and wood-based composite materials

Evaluation of the bio-deterioration factor on the structural performance of the timber buildings

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Sustainability Operations, Research, and Academics

Computational Modelling: CFD analysis

OpenSees for fire (main developer)

Structural Behaviour in Fire: global response

Modern structural material in fire

Fire protection

Fire Behaviour: travelling fire behaviour and modelling

Fire spreading

Van fire

Application of advanced technologies in built environment

Hybrid testing/simulation

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