Recent tendency in buildings construction emphasizes the use of natural materials. Timber frames with masonry infills (TFM) structure represents one of these types of eco [...]

In this paper, application of passive control devices to small wooden structures is introduced. Chapter 2 discusses the seismic behavior and the performance of structural [...]

In Japan, construction of wood structures for public buildings is encouraged for environmental reason. For example, lowrise large wood buildings sometimes involve RC core [...]

The structural performance of the non-structural wall in reinforced concrete (RC) frames has attracted much attention in Japan. There are several types of non-structural [...]

Recently, the number of monitoring reports of seismically isolated building is gradually increasing. In this paper, a long-term dense monitoring system of seismically iso [...]

A hybrid member composed of a thin steel plate sandwiched between two glued-laminated cedar timber members has been developed and studied. The steel and timber parts were [...]

In Japan there are 10 million inadequate wooden houses against building standard law and most of them (approximately 90 percent) are composed of conventional post-and-bea [...]