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Research Needs to Support Immediate Occupancy Building Performance Following Natural Hazard Events

August 21, 2018
Author(s)
Siamak Sattar, Therese P. McAllister, Katherine J. Johnson, Christopher T. Clavin, Christopher L. Segura, Steven L. McCabe, Juan F. Fung, Leslie Abrahams, Emily Sylak-Glassman , Marc L. Levitan, Kenneth W. Harrison, John L. Harris
The performance of buildings in our communities depends on multiple factors including the availability of supporting infrastructure, the original design, the current condition and capacity to resist hazard impacts, and the ability to recover functionality

Cost Estimates for the Seismic Retrofit of Federally Owned and Leased Buildings

June 25, 2018
Author(s)
Juan F. Fung, David T. Butry, Siamak Sattar, Steven L. McCabe
Presidential Executive Order 13717, Establishing a Federal Earthquake Risk Management Standard, encourages federal agencies to “enhance resilience…[to] future earthquakes” by evaluating and retrofitting existing federal buildings based on current existing

Estimating Structural Seismic Retrofit Costs for Federal Buildings

June 14, 2018
Author(s)
Juan F. Fung, David T. Butry, Siamak Sattar, Steven L. McCabe
In NIST TN 1973 [1], we develop a methodology for estimating seismic retrofit costs. The general approach is to build a predictive model of seismic retrofit costs that (1) captures the essential factors that drive costs, such as building construction type

A Methodology for Estimating Seismic Retrofit Costs

September 28, 2017
Author(s)
Juan F. Fung, David T. Butry, Siamak Sattar, Steven L. McCabe
Presidential Executive Order 13717 (EO 13717), Establishing a Federal Earthquake Risk Management Standard, encourages federal agencies to ”enhance resilience...[to] future earthquakes” by evaluating and retrofitting existing federal buildings based on

EVALUATION OF STRUCTURAL PERFORMANCE BASED ON AN ENERGY BALANCE APPROACH

January 8, 2017
Author(s)
Kevin K F Wong, Steven McCabe
An analytical method is developed to investigate the potential energy of fully nonlinear framed structures and other energy characteristics due to earthquake ground motions. Since the potential energy relates to the stiffness of the structure, it consists

Annual Report of the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program for Fiscal Year 2013

February 6, 2015
Author(s)
John(Jack) R. Hayes Jr., Steven L. McCabe, Edward Laatsch, Joy Pauschke, Bill Leith, John Filson, Tina M. Faecke
This is the annual report of the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP) for fiscal year (FY) 2013,1 presented by the NEHRP Interagency Coordinating Committee (ICC). This report, required by Public Law 108–360, describes the FY 2013

Annual Report of the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program for Fiscal Year 2012

February 14, 2014
Author(s)
John(Jack) R. Hayes Jr., Steven L. McCabe, Edward Laatsch, Joy Pauschke, Bill Leith, John Filson, Tina M. Faecke
This report about the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP) during fiscal year 2012 is submitted to Congress by the Interagency Coordinating Committee (ICC) of NEHRP, as required by the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Act of 1977 (42

Annual Report of the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program for Fiscal Year 2011

September 4, 2012
Author(s)
John(Jack) R. Hayes Jr., Steven L. McCabe, Edward Laatsch, Joy Pauschke, Bill Leith, John Filson, Tina M. Faecke
This report about the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP) during fiscal year 2011 is submitted to Congress by the Interagency Coordinating Committee of NEHRP, as required by the Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program Reauthorization Act of

Annual Report of the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program for Fiscal Year 2010

November 1, 2011
Author(s)
John(Jack) R. Hayes Jr., Steven L. McCabe, Edward Laatsch, Joy Pauschke, David Applegate, John Filson, Tina M. Faecke
This annual report of the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP) for fiscal year 2010 is submitted to Congress by the Interagency Coordinating Committee (ICC) of NEHRP, as required by the Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program Reauthorization