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In the early morning hours of February 6, 2023, a M W 7.8 earthquake occurred in Turkey, followed by four additional earthquakes throughout the day with MW of 5
The agencies are funding 20 projects to be conducted across 24 institutions through the Disaster Resilience Research Grant (DRRG) program, which they manage
Since the mid-1990s, a type of steel column that commonly features slender cross-sectional elements has become more prevalent in buildings along the West Coast
This is an annually renewed project that supports NIST's Lead Agency coordination of National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP) research and
This project includes two critical problem-focused tasks in Performance Based Seismic Engineering (PBSE): (1) the evaluation of reinforced concrete wall models
This project studies the collapse performance of concrete columns that do not meet the stringent reinforcement requirements for special columns defined by ACI
Craig A. Davis, Laurie A. Johnson, Anne Kiremidjian, Alexis Kwasinski, Thomas Denis O'Rourke, Ellis Stanley, Kent Yu, Farzin Zareian, Katherine Johnson, Ayse Hortacsu
This Volume 2 report serves as a companion document to Volume 1 that presents a framework to guide the reader through steps to achieve system level functional
Craig A. Davis, Laurie A. Johnson, Anne Kiremidjian, Alexis Kwasinski, Thomas Denis O'Rourke, Ellis Stanley, Kent Yu, Farzin Zareian, Katherine Johnson, Ayse Hortacsu
Lifeline infrastructure systems provide services to support communities, including life safety, public health, and social-economic factors. They require both
Executive Order (EO) 13717: Establishing a Federal Earthquake Risk Management Standard establishes minimum seismic requirements for new and existing buildings