Skip to main content
U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock ( ) or https:// means you’ve safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

Projects/Programs

Displaying 1 - 25 of 27

Building-Level Seismic Performance Assessment

Ongoing
Objective This research effort will identify and evaluate methods to enhance the seismic performance of buildings in areas prone to moderate-to-high earthquake shaking through the utilization of new conventional and low-damage seismic design approaches, improved seismic code provisions and design...

Collapse Assessment of Buildings under Seismic Loading

Completed
Objective - To evaluate the collapse probabilities of a suite of steel buildings for a series of increasingly severe earthquake ground motions, and to compare these probabilities to the collapse objective presumed in ASCE/SEI 7. The probabilities of collapse will be determined using the methodology...

Community Resilience Program

Ongoing
Objective - By 2028, deliver novel resilience planning and analysis methods and tools to support informed decision making by communities of all sizes. By 2028, implement multifaceted outreach, collaboration, and engagement to ensure the effective dissemination of community resilience guidance...

Development of a First-Generation Community-Resilience Systems Model

Ongoing
Objective Develop an efficient, interactive computer-based tool, Alternatives for Resilient Communities (ARC), to facilitate exploration of decision alternatives at the community scale for infrastructure systems (buildings, water, power, transportation) for a range of natural hazard events and...

Functional Recovery of Buildings and Lifelines

Ongoing
Objective To improve the recovery time of buildings and lifeline infrastructure by strengthening the design of the built environment to withstand future earthquake impacts, considering economic and implementation issues, providing a standard framework for the U.S. construction industry to deliver...

Improved Assessment Criteria for Performance-Based Seismic Design

Completed
Objective - Task (1): To establish a new generation of performance-based design assessment criteria that captures a component action’s dependence on loading history by conducting a set of focused experimental tests and computer simulations on eccentrically braced frame link beams. Task (2): To vet...

National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP) Coordination

Completed
Objective - To support NIST's statutory Lead Agency role of coordinating National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP) research and implementation activities and to provide leadership and management support for the Interagency Committee on Seismic Safety in Construction (ICSSC). What is the...

Performance Criteria Development

Ongoing
Objective Advance component-level seismic performance criteria in current design standards by conducting focused experimental tests and analytical studies. Technical Idea In the following, the technical idea for each of the RTs is presented separately: RT1: High-Strength Reinforcement in Earthquake...

Performance-Based Seismic Engineering (PBSE) for New Buildings Project

Ongoing
Objective: To develop a measurement science tool by FY 2016 that is capable of directly, accurately, and efficiently simulating the initiation and progression of structural collapse, and to develop a methodology for quantifying acceptance criteria limits found in the ASCE/SEI 41 Standard [1] through...

Risk Assessment for Forward-Looking Building Standards

Ongoing
Objective This project will significantly advance industry capacity for measuring and quantifying impacts from building damage/failure and develop guidance for the design and assessment of geotechnical considerations and multiple hazards that threaten buildings and infrastructure. Technical Idea To...

Risk Evaluation and Mitigation

Ongoing
Objective To improve techniques currently used for risk evaluation (including uncertainty quantification) and mitigation (including FRP retrofit) of structural systems and integrate them within the performance based earthquake engineering framework. Technical Idea The technical idea for each of the...

Risk Reduction and Recovery Program

Ongoing
Objective Advance innovative, high-value solutions to inform earthquake risk reduction and multi-hazard community resilience by applying measurement science, developing design standards and guidance recommendations, producing interdisciplinary decision-support tools, and conducting stakeholder...

Seismic Response of Reinforced Concrete Walls

Ongoing
Objective: The project includes two critical tasks identified in Performance Based Seismic Engineering (PBSE): (1) use of simplified reinforced concrete wall models in high-fidelity nonlinear dynamic analysis that have no robust experimental data validation - to be solved by thorough experimental...
Was this page helpful?