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This outreach will help ensure that the team’s findings and recommendations lead to improvements to codes, standards and practices that can prevent similar
The National Construction Safety Team has reached an important milestone in its investigation into the 2021 partial collapse of Champlain Towers South.
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The Highs and Lows of Studying the Aftermath of One of Turkey’s Deadliest Earthquakes
Objective The Functional Recovery project is designed to improve the time for recovery of key social functions by strengthening the built environment to withstand earthquake impacts. Our efforts will advance measurement science for the assessment and design of buildings and lifelines, contribute in
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
Objective - To develop next-generation methods and tools to better characterize extreme wind hazards and associated loads, and response of structures to extreme winds, thus enabling performance-based standards for designing structures that resist extreme winds. What is the new technical idea? The
Objective To 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
Carlos Arteta, Jefferson Marulanda Piedrahita, Christopher Segura
The adequate seismic behavior of slender reinforced concrete (RC) structural walls relies heavily on the effectiveness of the boundary element (BE) in providing
Larry Fahnestock, Shitao Shi, Rafael Sabelli, Matthew Speicher
Although ductility is a foundational attribute of seismic design, it is not sufficient to provide seismic stability. Instead, persistent positive stiffness that