Faculty profile
Lisa Tobber
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Research
Latest funding
- $219,000
Advancing Modular Seismic Design for Resilient and Affordable Midrise Precast Buildings in Canada
NSERC · 2025 · Principal investigator
- $272,000
Comprehensive Large-Scale Experimental and Numerical Program on the Seismic Performance of North American Precast Shear Wall Buildings
NSERC · 2025 · Principal investigator
- $80,000
Experimental investigation into the seismic performance of vertically connected PC shear walls
NSERC · 2024 · Principal investigator
Advancing Modular Seismic Design for Resilient and Affordable Midrise Precast Buildings in Canada
Principal investigators: Tobber, Lisa
Keywords: Construction methods; Engineering
Comprehensive Large-Scale Experimental and Numerical Program on the Seismic Performance of North American Precast Shear Wall Buildings
Principal investigators: Tobber, Lisa
Keywords: Construction methods; Engineering
Experimental investigation into the seismic performance of vertically connected PC shear walls
Principal investigators: Tobber, Lisa L
Keywords: cyclic testing; large-scale experimental testing; precast concrete; seismic design; shear walls
Advanced Data Acquisition and Feedback Control System for Resilient Infrastructure
Principal investigators: Tobber, Lisa
Keywords: 6DOF Full-scale Testing; Destructive Testing; Earthquake Engineering; Multi-axis Subassembly Testing; Resilient Infrastructure; Structural Testing; Sustainable Materials
Experimental testing of large-scale precast concrete (PC) shear walls under cyclic loads
Principal investigators: Tobber, Lisa L
Keywords: cyclic testing; large-scale experimental testing; precast concrete; seismic design; shear walls
Seismic design of novel precast walls for high-rise buildings
Principal investigators: Tobber, Lisa
Seismic design of novel precast walls for high-rise buildings
Principal investigators: Tobber, Lisa
Keywords: seismic design; core walls; low-damage systems; precast shear walls
Development of Canadian seismic design procedures for precast shear wall buildings
Principal investigators: Tobber, Lisa L
Keywords: nonlinear analysis; nonlinear dynamic analysis; precast concrete; seismic design; shear walls
Using Indigenous ways of knowing to design novel structural components and systems
Principal investigators: Tobber, Lisa
Keywords: Indigenous design Indigenous ways of knowing Structural engineering Indigenous architecture 3d printing Materials engineering Additive manufacturing
Next-generation wood construction
Principal investigators: Chui, Ying-Hei YH
Keywords: fire safety of buildings; life cycle assessment; mass timber; net-zero energy design; off-site construction; performance-based design; resilient structures; sustainable building; timber buildings
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
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