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The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) coordinated with the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP) and the earthquake engineering
For the last century, seismic building codes and practices have primarily focused on saving lives by reducing the likelihood of significant damage or structural
GAITHERSBURG, Md. — The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is awarding more than $6.6 million to fund research
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
Matthew S. Speicher, Zhidong Zhang, Benjamin W. Schafer
The objective of this paper is to summarize the evaluation results from applying the updated performance-based seismic design provisions: ASCE 41-17, on a cold
Matthew S. Speicher, Ivana Olivares, Benjamin W. Schafer
The objective of this report is to assess the adequacy of new provisions in ASCE 41 for seismic assessment of cold-formed steel framed buildings. A two-story