A supplement to the NCO award (#1612144) supported the participation of U.S. researchers on a February 7-8 trip to Japan’s Earthquake Defense, or E-Defense, facility for the second meeting of the research collaboration between NHERI and NIED/E-Defense.

In addition to discussing opportunities for collaboration under the Tokyo Metropolitan Resilience Project, ten participants from the U.S. observed and participated in two large-scale tests on the E-Defense shake table to evaluate the performance of residential wood construction. The E-Defense shake table in Miki City, Japan, is the world’s largest shake table.

With support from the RAPID facility, Texas A&M professor Maria Koliou and her team collected data on the two full-scale, three-story, wood-frame buildings. Koliou is the PI on NSF project #1829433, which is funded under the NHERI-NIED/E-Defense research collaboration.

Be sure to check out the dramatic shake videos on Koliou’s Twitter feed. Find details on the project in this TAMU news article and on Prof. Koliou’s project web page.

Related Links

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NHERI RAPID/Collaborative Research: Japan-U.S. Collaboration on the Seismic Resilience of Wood-Frame Building Systems

Researchers collaborate on testing seismic resiliency on world's largest shake table (TAMU)

Professor Maria Koliou (Twitter)