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OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY
2008 PEER Seismic Design Competition
DESIGN PROCESS: CRITERIA
To begin the design, look at how the project will
be scored:
 Points can be won based on:
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Seismic Performance
 Rental Income
 Presentation/Poster
 Architecture/Workmanship
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For the design of the structure, 3 categories
count:
Income
 Building Cost
 Performance
 Architecture
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RENTAL INCOME
The first design criteria we addressed was to
maximize the rental income
 To do this
Maximize floor space
 Maximize number of floors
 Maximize floor space on upper floors
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The first thing we designed was a 5’ tall tower
with 29 floors
BUILDING COST
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Don’t bother minimizing this value
Larger footprints provide structural advantages
 More weight means more members and more strength
 The cheapest structure will not be the best
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MAXIMIZING SEISMIC PERFORMANCE
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Points are earned by having the lowest possible
roof acceleration and drift
Spectral Acceleration
3
Spectral Accel. (g's)
2.5
El Centro
2
Kobe
1.5
Northridge
1
0.5
0
0.01
0.1
1
Period (s)
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Very rigid or very flexible buildings will have the
smallest acceleration and drifts.
STIFF BUILDING
We decided that it would be best to go with a very
rigid building
 There is a trade off in using more materials:
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Higher rigidity
 Higher weight
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Weight of balsa wood will be small compared
to the applied loads
 Better to go with more wood
 Adding more members also adds connections and:
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Stiffness
Load paths
Redundancy
ADDITIONAL DESIGN METHODOLOGY
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From past years, and common sense, simple,
uniform designs will win:
No re-entrant corners
 No twisting
 No tapering at top
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Also allows max rental income
Irregularities cause torsion and stress concentrations
Rectangles fail easily compared to triangles
 Using Diagonal members allowed us to:
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Maximize the number of connections
 Increase number of load paths
 Distribute the load
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ADDITIONAL DESIGN METHODOLOGY
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Maximize dimensions of footprint
Larger shear walls
 Larger lever arm – Increases cross section moment of
inertia – Section can carry larger loads
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Minimize columns
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Simply not necessary-saves on weight
Additional support for loads
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Points of loading require additional reinforcement
Determine which floors will hold the loads (1/8*h)
Brace these laterally on the interior
Increased cross bracing through walls at these points
ANALYSIS
Tension Perpendicular to Grain
Radial
Tension Perpendicular to Grain
Tangential
Shear Parallel to Grain Radial
Shear Parallel to Grain
Tangential
Compression Perpendicular to
Grain Loaded Radially
Compression Perpendicular to
Grain Tangentially
Compression Parallel to Grain
Modulus of Elasticity
Compression Parallel to grain
Maximum Crushing
Compression Parallel to grain
stress at Proportional Limit
Static Bending Modulus of
Elasticity
Static Bending Modulus of
Rupture
Static Bending Stress at
Proportional Limit
Looked up material properties:
Specific Gravity
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0.08
750
1250
260,000
370
700
210,000
75
42.5
170
147
103
68
0.10
900
1500
300,000
525
900
300,000
96
54
204
178
120
77
0.12
1050
1800
327,000
750
1150
420,000
103
78
238
227
136
104
0.16
1500
2740
580,000
1330
1850
660,000
147
92
350
288
167
120
0.18
1980
3310
650,000
1540
1995
810,000
160
110
414
320
174
124
0.20
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3560
705,000
1,725
2435
865,000
187
140
448
388
231
147
Must appreciate the variability of wood
 Ran SAP2000 using Time History and Response
Spectrum analysis on several variations
 Analyzed rigid and flexible connections, used 80/20
weighted average
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Doesn’t make a big difference
Averaged the two analyses
 Picked the best overall design
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CHANGES IN DESIGN
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Our design looks like last year’s winner (OSU)
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Same methodology (Stiffness, simplicity are good)
Good ideas last year, could use some improvement
More members near corners, and at load points
 Fewer members elsewhere:
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Not necessary
Saves self weight
This saves on weight
 Decrease the angle of incline on the cross
members in all four walls
 Lateral support system changed to increase
redundancy and the number of load paths
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ARCHITECTURE
Mostly an afterthought through the design process
 Turned out very pretty
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SUMMARY
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Our design will:
 Maximize floor space and number of floors
 Be very rigid, and structurally redundant
 Be as simple and uniform as possible
 Have wide walls
 Have increased support at load points
PERFORMANCE PREDICTION
$15
$10
El Centro
Northridge
$5
Kobe
$0
0
0.05
EDP1-Peak Drift Ratio
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Engineering Design
Parameter 2
EDP2 Cost (X$106
EDP1 Cost (X$106
Engineering Design
Parameter 1
$20
$15
El Centro
$10
Northridge
$5
Kobe
$0
0
2
EDP2-Maximum Acceleration (g's)
Best guess or worst case estimates:
Annual Income:
 Total Building Cost:
 Annual Seismic Cost:
 Annual Building Revenue:
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$1,468,000
$247,000
$159,000
$1,062,000
THANK YOU AND REFERENCES
Dr. Scott Ashford, CCE, OSU
 Dr. Tom Miller, CCE, OSU
 Transportation Professors, CCE, OSU
 Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center
 Laura Elbert, Student, CCE, OSU
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Material properties from:
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Dreisbach, John F. (1952) Balsa and Its Properties.
Columbia, Connecticut: Columbia Graphs