List Of BauGrid® Laboratory Tests

Performed at Leading Seismic Laboratories in The United States, Canada and Asia

2014

Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Performance of 18 large High-Strength Concrete Columns reinforced with BauGrid® Welded Reinforcement Grid (WRG™) with various longitudinal rebar ratios subjected to axial and lateral loads.


2014

University of Ottawa, Canada

Performance of High-Strength Concrete Shear Walls with BauGrid® Welded Reinforcement Grids as Boundary element Transverse Reinforcement – By Prof. Murat Saatcioglu – Department of Civil Engineering.


2011-2013

University of California, San Diego

Shake Table (Seismic) Test of a 5-story Full Scale Reinforced Concrete Moment Frame Structure, reinforced with BauGrid® Welded Reinforcement Grid in all Columns – University of California, San Diego – Jacob School of Engineering’s Englekirk Structural Engineering Center – San Diego.


2012

University of Ottawa, Canada

Performance of Concrete Coupling Beams Reinforced with BauGrid® Welded Reinforcement Grids – Prof. Murat Saatcioglu – Department of Civil Engineering.


2008

University of California, San Diego

Experimental Seismic Performance Evaluation of Innovative Beam-Column Subassemblies Reinforced with BauGrid® Welded Reinforcement Grids – By B.J. Chang, T.C. Hutchinson, and R. E. Englekirk.


2007

University of California, Berkley

High-Strength Concrete Columns Confined with BauGrid® Welded Reinforcement Grids – Derrick Roorda, Prof. Jack Moehle, Don Clyde, Shakhzod Takhirov – Earthquake Engineering Research Center.


2006

University of Ottawa, Canada

High-Strength Concrete Columns Confined with BauGrid® Welded Reinforcement Grids –Saatcioglu, Grira – Ottawa Carleton Earthquake Engineering Research Centre.


2005

University of California, San Diego

Shake Table (Seismic) Test of a 7-story Full Scale Reinforced Concrete Structural Wall Building Slice, reinforced with BauGrid® Welded Reinforcement Grid at the Boundary Elements of the Shear Walls – University of California, San Diego – Jacob School of Engineering’s Englekirk Structural Engineering Center.


1999

ACI Structural Journal Technical Paper

Confinement of Reinforced Concrete Columns with Welded Reinforcement Grids by Prof. Murat Saatcioglu and Mongi Grira – ACI Structural Journal Technical Paper – January/February 1999.


1996-1999

University of California, San Diego

PRESSS – Research and seismic testing of 5 Story Precast Hybrid Moment Frame Structure reinforced with BauGrid® Welded Reinforcement Grid – Funded by Charles Pankow Company, National Science Foundation and Precast Concrete Institute – University of California, San Diego – 1993-1999.


1996

University of Ottawa, Canada

Normal-Strength Concrete Columns Confined with Welded Reinforcement Grids – Grira, Saatcioglu – Ottawa Carleton Earthquake Engineering Research Centre – University of Ottawa – Ottawa, Canada.


1994

NIST

Use of Welded Reinforcement Grid in Beams and Columns – Performance of 1/3 Scale Model Precast Concrete Beam-Column Connections Subjected to Cyclic Inelastic Loads – NIST – U.S. Department of Commerce – American Concrete Institute “Concrete Research Education Foundation” – Concrete Research Council – 1994


1990

University of California, Berkley

Cyclic Behavior of Shear Wall Boundary Elements incorporating prefabricated welded wire hoops – Miranda, Thompson, Bertero – Earthquake Engineering Research Center – University of California, Berkeley – 1990.


1989

University of California, Berkley

Experimental studies of the confinement of shear wall boundary elements incorporating prefabricated welded wire hoops – Thompson, Miranda, Bertero – Earthquake Engineering Research Center – University of California, Berkeley – 1989.