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Projects/Programs

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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...

Safety of Building Occupants Project

Completed
By 2016, this project aims to develop a framework for a model predicting evacuation decision-making during building fires, improving the accuracy of egress modeling tools used in performance-based design (PBD) of buildings.

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...

Validation of ASCE 41 Procedures in PBSE

Completed
Objective - The objective of this study is to advance first-generation performance-based seismic engineering (PBSE) methods by assessing the performance of a set of code-compliant buildings using ASCE/SEI 41 methodologies. This study focuses on steel buckling-restrained braced frames (BRBFs) and...

Ventilation Performance for Novel Sustainability and Resilience Challenges

Ongoing
Objective: To develop tools, metrics, and data to enable sustainable, resilient, high-performance building and ventilation system design and operation in response to current and future challenges. Also, to develop a methodology to evaluate potential changes to ventilation and IAQ standards so their...
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