Performance-Targeted Hybrid Multistory Buildings for Resilient and Sustainable Construction

Start Date: Not Started

Duration: 5 Years

This project is a preliminary step in developing cost-effective and performance-targeted hybrid structural solutions for lateral load resisting systems (LLRSs) of multistory buildings to resist extreme loads. Focusing on masonry-based hybrid frame-wall dual (HFWD) system and hybrid frame-wall bracing (HFWB) system, the proposed project aims to improve our knowledge and understanding of these systems' structural behavior, and developing pertinent analysis models, performance evaluation tools, and rational design methods or guidelines, in both contexts of conventional prescriptive design and modern performance-based design.