Quasi-Static Testing of Seismically Enhanced Wood Light-Frame Room Specimen with Stucco

A 7 ft (2.13 m) x 16 ft (4.88 m) x 12 ft (3.66 m) wood light-frame room specimen was built and quasi-statically tested. The specimen was seismically enhanced by applying off-the-shelf construction adhesive along with drywall screws between the interface of the wood studs and the gypsum wallboard in the interior and densglass in the exterior. The room was built using hold-downs and shear bolts secured to a frame bolted on the Hybrid Simulation Platform (HSP) at UC Berkeley's Richmond Laboratory. The room was finished with exterior on the exterior using a stronger mesh and fasteners. A parapet wall was built above the longitudinal walls. The densglass panels were oriented vertically on the exterior of the long walls and horizontally on the exterior of the short walls and the interior of the room. The HSP was used to perform a quasi-static test using a modified version of the CUREE loading protocol. The modifications incorporated smaller and larger drifts to the protocol.