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Current Research:
EIT Demonstration Project and Workshop
NSF: Development of a Blast and Ballistic Resistant Precast Concrete Armored Wall System
NEES-CR: Impact Forces from Tsunami-Driven Debris
Inspection Methods & Techniques to Determine Non Visible Corrosion of Prestressing Strands in Concrete Bridge Components
Daniel P. Jenny PCI Fellowship: Analytical Assessment of the Resistance of Precast Strucutres to Blast Effects
Development of a Seismic Design Methodology for Precast Diaphragms
Use of Polyurea for Blast Hardening of Concrete Construction
Estimation of Concrete Respone Under Varying Confinement
Past Research Projects
Performance of Bulb Tees with Self Consolidating Concrete
Evaluation of Bond Mechanics in Prestressed Concrete Applications
FRP Bridge Decks with RC
Parapets
Blast Resistance of a Load
Bearing Shear Wall Building
Lehigh@NEES
Equipment Site
Reserarch Experinece for
Undergraduates
Seismic Evaluation of a Three Story
WoodFrame Apartment Building with Tuck-Under Parking
Design of RC Bridge Beam-Column
Connections
Response of Waffle Slab
Building Systems to Seismic Loads
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Evaluation of Weathered Oriented Strand Board and Plywood Shear Wall Capacity For Use in Woodframe Construction
Introduction:
Oriented Strand Board O.S.B. offers an economical alternative to plywood as a sheathing material
for woodframe construction. Its popularity has been assisted by its experimentally proven performance
in shear wall tests. A question that remains is its durability. Subjected to extended weathering, will
O.S.B. continue to provide performance comparable to that of plywood? To answer this question, an experimental
program is proposed.
Subassembly Development
The focus of the test program will be the evaluation of the performance of exterior shear walls under various
weathered conditions. The performance might be characterized best by the behavior of the connection between
the sheathing and the sill plate or stud (Figure 1). For simplicity in testing, the sill plate to sheathing
connection will be modeled experimentally. The test setup consists of a split sill plate or vertical stud nailed
to a portion of sheathing panel. Displacement will be applied to either end of the sill using an Instron test
machine.
Research Team
Clay Naito, Principal Investigator
Kaysi-ann Spence, Undergraduate Research Assistant
Mel Oxenreider, Undergraduate Research Assistant
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