{"id":738,"date":"2026-06-16T14:53:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T18:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/viau\/?p=738"},"modified":"2026-06-16T15:02:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T19:02:23","slug":"vtel-at-csce-2026-annual-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/viau\/2026\/vtel-at-csce-2026-annual-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"VTEL at the CSCE 2026 Annual Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        VTEL at the CSCE 2026 Annual Conference\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p>Mohammadmahdi Gholami (PhD candidate) presented his research at the 2026 Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (CSCE) Annual Conference in Qu\u00e9bec City. His presentation, titled <em>\u201cDevelopment of a Novel Hysteretic Model for Predicting the Cyclic Behaviour of Dowel-Type Timber Connections,\u201d<\/em> explored the seismic performance of timber lateral load-resisting systems. The research focused on improving the modelling of dowel-type timber connections, which play a critical role in dissipating energy during earthquakes. Using a novel hysteretic modelling approach, the study examined how connection-level characteristics affect the overall seismic response of timber structural systems. The findings highlight the importance of physically representative connection models for reliable seismic performance assessment and collapse prediction. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This work contributes to the advancement of resilient and sustainable timber structures and reflects ongoing research within our group on the seismic behaviour of mass timber systems. Congratulations to Mohammadmahdi on sharing his work with researchers and industry professionals from across Canada and beyond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/viau\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/122\/2026\/06\/mahdi-1024x682.jpeg\" alt=\"Mahdi Gholami presenting at CSCE 2026\" class=\"wp-image-746\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/viau\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/122\/2026\/06\/mahdi-1024x682.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/viau\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/122\/2026\/06\/mahdi-512x341.jpeg 512w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/viau\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/122\/2026\/06\/mahdi-320x213.jpeg 320w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/viau\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/122\/2026\/06\/mahdi-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/viau\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/122\/2026\/06\/mahdi-600x400.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/viau\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/122\/2026\/06\/mahdi-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/viau\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/122\/2026\/06\/mahdi.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mohammadmahdi Gholami (PhD candidate) presented his research at the 2026 Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (CSCE) Annual Conference in Qu\u00e9bec City. His presentation, titled \u201cDevelopment of a Novel Hysteretic Model for Predicting the Cyclic Behaviour of Dowel-Type Timber Connections,\u201d explored the seismic performance of timber lateral load-resisting systems. The research focused on improving the modelling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":335,"featured_media":742,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"lecture-podium"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/viau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/viau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/viau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/viau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/viau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=738"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/viau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":750,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/viau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions\/750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/viau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/viau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/viau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/viau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}