Table of Contents

Introduction -- Brief history of seismic disasters and timber structures. Seismic design of timber structures. Seismic performance of timber structures. Drawbacks to small size mock-up experiments, and problems of the scale effect. Effects of loading rate on rigidity and connection strength. Real size shake table testing. The purpose of collapse analysis. Simulation of timber structures, and a brief introduction to Distinct Element Methods. Modelling timber structures - elements and connections. Earthquake waves. Case studies of collapse analysis. Introduction to the Wallstat simulation program -- Algorithms and source code. Wallstat program manual.