Blind Predictions of the Seismic Response of a Woodframe House: An International Benchmark Study

As part of the CUREE-Caltech Woodframe Project, the international engineering community was invited to blind predict the dynamic characteristics and inelastic seismic response of a two-story woodframe house that had been extensively tested on a shake table. This research study provided a unique opportunity to assess the state of the art of numerical models in predicting the inelastic dynamic response of woodframe structures. Another objective …