Full-Scale Shake Table Testing of a Hybrid CLT/Steel Modular Building - CRTC RADS Building

Aayush  Shrestha; Pouria Bahmani

doi:10.7273/000008296

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Full-Scale Shake Table Testing of a Hybrid CLT/Steel Modular Building - CRTC RADS Building

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Full-Scale Shake Table Testing of a Hybrid CLT/Steel Modular Building - CRTC RADS Building

Aayush Shrestha and Pouria Bahmani

05/21/2026

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https://doi.org/10.7273/000008296

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The Composite Recycling Technology Center (CRTC) in collaboration with Washington State University designed, manufactured, and built Rapid Advanced Cross-Laminated Timber (ACLT) Deployment System (RADS) Prototype Barrak (B-Hut) building. The building was constructed using cross-laminated timber (CLT) panels manufactured from thermally modified (TM) coastal Western Hemlock lumber produced at the CRTC facility in Port Angeles, WA. The building was designed to resist high gravity and lateral (seismic) loads and be operational with minimal structural damage at the maximum considered earthquake (MCE) with target spectral acceleration of 2.5g. Furthermore, the building components were designed and manufactured such that they can be loaded on containers, transported to the site, assembled and disassembled quickly, transported to other location, and reassembled. Two shipping containers with dimensions of 20-ft. (length) × 8-ft (width) × 8-ft (height) form a portion of the building and other building components are loaded on these containers to assemble a 32-ft long and 20-ft wide single-story modular building. The building was assembled and tested on the Triaxial Earthquake and Shock Simulator (TESS) at the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center-Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (ERDC-CERL) at Champaign, IL.

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Title: Full-Scale Shake Table Testing of a Hybrid CLT/Steel Modular Building - CRTC RADS Building
Creators: Aayush Shrestha (Author) - Washington State University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Pouria Bahmani (Author) - Washington State University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Academic Unit: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Grants: W9132T239C004, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (United States, Vicksburg) - ERDC
Grant note: Funding for this study was provided by the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) under Agreement No. W9132T239C004
Identifiers: 99901387106401842
Language: English
Resource Type: Report