Seismic Resistance of Vernacular Timber Frames with Infills: Case Studies from Japan and Romania

This provides an engineer’s perspective on traditional construction methods for timber frames with infills, focusing on traditional paianta houses in Romania and minka houses in Japan to provide insights into the construction, seismic behavior, and design considerations of such structures.

Andreea Dutu is a structural engineer and lecturer at the University of Civil Engineering Bucharest, Romania. She previously worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan.

Yoshihiro Yamazaki is a structural engineer at the Building Research Institute, Japan, working on the revision of Japanese technical standards for building structures, especially for CLT panel construction.