Policies for Seismic Safety
Author: Stanley Scott
Publisher: Institute of Governmental Studies Press
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 120
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Author: Stanley Scott
Publisher: Institute of Governmental Studies Press
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 120
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Publisher: Government Printing Office
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9780160926754
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Rapid Visual Screening (RVS) handbook can be used by trained personnel to identify, inventory, and screen buildings that are potentially seismically vulnerable. The RVS procedure comprises a method and several forms that help users to quickly identify, inventory, and score buildings according to their risk of collapse if hit by major earthquakes. The RVS handbook describes how to identify the structural type and key weakness characteristics, how to complete the screening forms, and how to manage a successful RVS program.
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2011-09-09
Total Pages: 197
ISBN-13: 0309186773
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe United States will certainly be subject to damaging earthquakes in the future. Some of these earthquakes will occur in highly populated and vulnerable areas. Coping with moderate earthquakes is not a reliable indicator of preparedness for a major earthquake in a populated area. The recent, disastrous, magnitude-9 earthquake that struck northern Japan demonstrates the threat that earthquakes pose. Moreover, the cascading nature of impacts-the earthquake causing a tsunami, cutting electrical power supplies, and stopping the pumps needed to cool nuclear reactors-demonstrates the potential complexity of an earthquake disaster. Such compound disasters can strike any earthquake-prone populated area. National Earthquake Resilience presents a roadmap for increasing our national resilience to earthquakes. The National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP) is the multi-agency program mandated by Congress to undertake activities to reduce the effects of future earthquakes in the United States. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)-the lead NEHRP agency-commissioned the National Research Council (NRC) to develop a roadmap for earthquake hazard and risk reduction in the United States that would be based on the goals and objectives for achieving national earthquake resilience described in the 2008 NEHRP Strategic Plan. National Earthquake Resilience does this by assessing the activities and costs that would be required for the nation to achieve earthquake resilience in 20 years. National Earthquake Resilience interprets resilience broadly to incorporate engineering/science (physical), social/economic (behavioral), and institutional (governing) dimensions. Resilience encompasses both pre-disaster preparedness activities and post-disaster response. In combination, these will enhance the robustness of communities in all earthquake-vulnerable regions of our nation so that they can function adequately following damaging earthquakes. While National Earthquake Resilience is written primarily for the NEHRP, it also speaks to a broader audience of policy makers, earth scientists, and emergency managers.
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 452
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Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Published: 1993-07
Total Pages: 114
ISBN-13: 9780788101533
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 1994-02-01
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 0309050308
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Loma Prieta earthquake struck the San Francisco area on October 17, 1989, causing 63 deaths and $10 billion worth of damage. This book reviews existing research on the Loma Prieta quake and draws from it practical lessons that could be applied to other earthquake-prone areas of the country. The volume contains seven keynote papers presented at a symposium on the earthquake and includes an overview written by the committee offering recommendations to improve seismic safety and earthquake awareness in parts of the country susceptible to earthquakes.
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Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Published: 1993-07
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9781568069920
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides design professionals & local building officials with a standard methodology to evaluate buildings of different types & occupancies in areas of different seismicity throughout the U.S.
Author: American Society of Civil Engineers
Publisher: ASCE Publications
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 436
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKStandard ASCE/SEI 41-06 presents the latest generation of performance-based seismic rehabilitation methodology.
Author: Tiago Miguel Ferreira
Publisher: MDPI
Published: 2019-07-31
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 3039212575
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a printed edition of the Special Issue Reducing the Seismic Vulnerability of Existing Buildings: Assessment and Retrofit that was published in Buildings
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 1985-02-01
Total Pages: 295
ISBN-13: 0309035325
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom earth tectonics and meteorology to risk, responsibility, and the role of government, this comprehensive and detailed book reviews current practices in designing dams to withstand extreme hydrologic and seismic events. Recommendations for action and for further research to improve dam safety evaluations are presented.