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Objective: To develop and deploy advances in measurement science to enhance the robustness of buildings and infrastructure to natural and manmade hazards. What is the technical idea? The fundamental new idea is that structural robustness can be significantly enhanced by developing reliable
Objective To advance tornado hazard mitigation through improved characterization of tornadoes and their interaction with buildings and structures, providing the technical foundation for improvements to tornado load design guidelines, standards, codes, and code adoptions. This includes research and
Objective By 2028, develop a methodology for quantifying hurricane-induced hazards, including wind speed, storm surge, waves, and associated hydrodynamic effects, with consideration of the near- and long-term effects of natural hazard evolution. Technical Idea This project will investigate and
Objective - To develop next-generation methods and tools to better characterize coastal inundation hazards, associated loads, and response of structures, thus enabling performance-based standards for designing structures that resist coastal inundation. What is the new technical idea? Current design
Franklin Lombardo, Zachary Wienhoff, Maryam Refan, Joshua Wurman, Karen Kosiba, Marc Levitan
Significant tornado events have prompted a push for the development of design standards that consider tornado loading for conventional buildings and structures
Donald Scott, Jennifer Goupil, Shane Crawford, Alex Griffin, Cherylyn Henry, Marc Levitan, Franklin Lombardo, John van de Lindt, Peter Vickery
The Structural Engineering Institute (SEI) has a long history of working with NIST and other federal partners to improve ASCE/SEI 7 Minimum Design Loads and
Brian O'Connor, Karah Osburn, Jennifer Mitchell, Heidi Szabo, Marc Levitan
The purpose of this fact sheet is to provide a brief overview of building envelope considerations and load path improvements to reduce damages to wood framed
Erik Perfetto, James Taylor, Karah Osburn, Brian O'Connor, Marc Levitan, Jennifer Mitchell
This instructional guidance is for design professionals and building officials to help them determine when a building or other structure is required to be