The Framework building in Portland will be one of the tallest wood buildings in the United States. Oregon State University is completing the testing on cross-laminated timber panels. Learn more: http://tallwoodinstitute.org
Barbosa and Higgins perform impactful industry testing
Testing done at Oregon State University featured in Engineering News Record and in The Economist: Dr. Barbosa and Dr. Christopher Higgins performed testing for SOM (funded by SLB), which has now been featured in several news venues. Here are a few links:
1. The Economist
2. Engineering News Record (ENR)
3. FastCoDesign
4. Archpaper.com
5. Architect Magazine
41st IAHS WORLD CONGRESS – Sustainability and Innovation for the Future, Albufeira, Portugal · September 13 – 16, 2016
Dr. Barbosa presented work on the NSF Rapid, with the title: Nonlinear Layered Modelling Approach for Cross Laminated Timber Panels Subjected to Out-of-plane Loading
WCTE 2016 – World Conference on Timber Engineering, Vienna, Austria · August 25 2016
Vahid Mahdavifar presented part of his Ph.D. work with the title: Hysteretic Behaviour of Metal Connectors for Hybrid (high- and low-grade mixed species) Cross Laminated Timber
EMI 2016 – Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference · May 25 2016
Shafiq Alam presented his part of his Ph.D. work at the EMI 2016 conference with the title: Infill Strut Model Class Uncertainty of Seismic Response of Reinforced Concrete Masonry Infilled Frames
American Society of Safety Engineers, Eugene, OR · May 19 2015
Dr. Barbosa gave a presentation on the Oregon Resilience Plan and Current Status of the Implementation Task Force at the Monthly Meeting of the Cascade Chapter of The American Society of Safety Engineers http://cascade.asse.org/events/?regevent_action=register&event_id=31
10th Annual Energy & Construction Best Practices Summit – Clean Tech. – Washington’s WISE Future, Tacoma, WA · May 28/29 2015
Dr. Barbosa presented on DESIGNING FOR RESILIENCE IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST as a panel member on the Cascadia Region Earthquake Readiness Report at the 10th Annual Energy and Construction Best Practices Summit.
Barbosa R&D Group @BarbosaRDGroup · Nov 15 2014
Work by Barbosa @BarbosaRDGroup and Mason @mason_rg featured in http://engineering.oregonstate.edu/momentum/issues/nov14.html …
Barbosa R&D Group @BarbosaRDGroup · Oct 14 2014
Trejo, Barbosa, and Link just published a report on Seismic Performance of Columns using ASTM A706 Grade 80 rebar: http://www.trb.org/main/blurbs/171467.aspx …
Dec 12 2014 – HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!!
End of year group lunch, Dec. 2014. From left to right: Rajendra, Shafiq, myself, Andre, Matt, Vahid, Gabe, Paul, Cody, Luis, Feras (not in the picture Patrick and Drew)