AR 2013 Volume 2

31 May 2013 | Contributor(s): Robert Daniel Parker, Linda Lee Berglan

NSF biosketches for NEEScomm and Equipment Site employees. Also find Volume 2, Chapters 1-4, Equipment Site Activities.

ARTQUAKE, A NEW SOFTWARE FOR GENERATION OF ARTIFICIAL TIME-HISTORIES

15 May 2014 | Contributor(s): Sergio Hampshire C. Santos, Silvio de Souza Lima, Rodrigo M. R. Rodrigues

ARTQUAKE, A NEW SOFTWARE FOR GENERATION OF ARTIFICIAL TIME-HISTORIESFor the seismic design of some important structures, such as reactors in Nuclear Power Plants, it is often required by the regulatory bodies the generation of artificial time-histories compatible with a given design response...

ASCE/SEI 31/41 Evaluations of Buildings Damaged in the 2010 Maule, Chile Earthquake

15 May 2014 | Contributor(s): Anna Birely, Dawn Lehman, Laura Lowes, Ady Aviram, Dominic Kelly

ASCE/SEI 31/41 Tier 1 & Tier 2 Evaluations of Buildings Damaged in the 2010 Maule, Chile EarthquakeMany mid- and high-rise structural wall buildings were damaged as a result of the 2010 Maule, Chile earthquake. Damage to these buildings was extensively documented by reconnaissance teams, and in...

ASSESSING BUILDING REPARABILITY AS A FUNCTION OF PERFORMANCE LOSS AND COSTS: AN APPLICATION FOR THE L’AQUILA EARTHUAKE

15 May 2014 | Contributor(s): Maria Polese, Marco Di Ludovico, Marco Marcolini, Andrea Prota, Gaetano Manfredi

ASSESSING BUILDING REPARABILITY AS A FUNCTION OF PERFORMANCE LOSS AND COSTS: AN APPLICATION FOR THE L’AQUILA EARTHUAKEOne of the most controversial problem in the aftermath of damaging earthquakes is the lack of agreed and transparent policies for acceptable levels of safety to be considered,...

Assessing Community-Scale Disruption and Restoration of Basic Needs in Post-earthquake Haiti

23 Sep 2010 | Poster | Contributor(s): NEES EOT

Bevington - Davidson: This poster describes an assessment of the levels of community-scale building damage and socio-economic disruption following the Haiti earthquake of January 2010. Damage and disruption were analyzed for pre-event, post-event, and early recovery time periods in seven Haitian...

Assessing Current and Potential Uses of Mobile Technology for Haitian Relief and Development Efforts

23 Sep 2010 | Poster | Contributor(s): NEES EOT

The current situation in Haiti provides an important opportunity to assess the potential for mobile communication to enhance coordination between stakeholders both during and after the crisis.

Assessing the Effect of Spectral Shape on Nonlinear Response of Reinforced Concrete Moment Resisting Frames

15 May 2014 | Publications | Contributor(s): Saber Ale Saheb Fosoul, Hossein Tajmir Riahi, Nima Hatami

Assessing the Effect of Spectral Shape on Nonlinear Response of Reinforced Concrete Moment Resisting FramesThe strength of an earthquake ground motion is usually quantified by an Intensity Measure (IM). This IM is used to predict the response of a structure. Traditionally scalar intensity...

Assessing the Impact of Internal Refugees on Hospital Water and Wastewater Infrastructure and Its Implications for Future Sustainable Treatment Designs

23 Sep 2010 | Multimedia | Contributor(s): NEES EOT

This work takes advantages of pre-earthquake data on the wastewater treatment needs and energy infrastructure of the Partners in Health (Zanmi Lasante) medical complex in Cange, Haiti. Using 2008 data as a control, we are quantifying the change in wastewater, and energy infrastructure needs in...

Assessing the Impact of Internal Refugees on Hospital Water and Wastewater Infrastructure and Its Implications for Future Sustainable Treatment Designs

15 Oct 2010 | Poster | Contributor(s): NEES EOT

This work takes advantages of pre-earthquake data on the wastewater treatment needs and energy infrastructure of the Partners in Health (Zanmi Lasante) medical complex in Cange, Haiti. Using 2008 data as a control, we are quantifying the change in wastewater, and energy infrastructure needs in...

Assessment and Evaluation of Visual Learning Modules Developed for Undergraduate Structural Engineering and Construction Education

15 May 2014 | Publications | Contributor(s): Lelli Van Den Einde, Tara Hutchinson, Serge Chakmakjian

Assessment and Evaluation of Visual Learning Modules Developed for Undergraduate Structural Engineering and Construction EducationA landmark full-scale test of a five-story reinforced concrete building was conducted on the NEES@UCSD shake table. The building was completely furnished with...

Assessment Measures for Hybrid Simulation: A Discussion of Recent Developments

27 Jan 2015 | Active Documents | Contributor(s): Reza Mirza Hessabi, Oya Mercan

Recently, a summary of some of the available assessment measures that can be implemented by users to evaluate the accuracy of a hybrid simulation was published in the NEEShub. The current document reviews two more sets of tracking measures, namely, Phase and Amplitude Error Indices (PAEI) and...

Assessment of a Test Setup for Conducting Large-Scale Earthquake Simulations on a Damped Braced Frame

01 Aug 2011 | Poster | Contributor(s): Derek Loush

Assessment of Aging Correction Factors for Liquefaction Resistance at Sites of Recurrent Liquefaction

15 May 2014 | Publications | Contributor(s): Brett Maurer, Russell Green, Misko Cubrinovski, Brendon Bradley

Assessment of Aging Correction Factors for Liquefaction Resistance at Sites of Recurrent Liquefaction: A Study of the Canterbury (NZ) Earthquake SequenceIncreases in the strength and stiffness of sands with time have been widely reported. These temporal gains, or “aging effects”, are discernible...

Assessment of Floor Accelerations in Yielding Buildings

29 Jul 2012 | Publications | Contributor(s): Joseph D Wieser, Gokhan Pekcan, Arash E. Zaghi, Ahmad Itani, Manos Maragakis

Assessment of Foundation Rocking Behavior in Reducing the Seismic Demand on Horizontally Curved Bridges

30 Jul 2013 | Publications | Contributor(s): AHMAD SAID SAAD

CCEER report 13-12

Assessment of Macro-Modeling Tools for Seismic Performance of Masonry Infilled Reinforced Concrete Frames

15 May 2014 | Publications | Contributor(s): Wael M. Hassan

Assessment of Macro-Modeling Tools for Seismic Performance of Masonry Infilled Reinforced Concrete FramesModeling the complex behavior of masonry infilled reinforced concrete frames under seismic excitation has received much research attention over the last decade. Many researchers resorted to...

ASSESSMENT OF PUNCHING SHEAR VULNERABILITY

12 Jul 2011 | Poster | Contributor(s): NEES EOT

Reinforced concrete slab-column connections are susceptible to punching shear failure. To mitigate this failure, engineers have use shear stud reinforcement (SSR) for the past decade, but based on a recent NEES (Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation) test at the University of Minnesota...

Assessment of Punching Shear Vulnerability of Slab-Column Connections with Shear Stud Reinforcement

12 Jan 2011 | Poster | Contributor(s): Alex DaCosta, Eric Michael Matzke, Gustavo Parra-Montesinos, Carol Shield

Assessment of Seismic Design Methods of Earth Retaining Walls Using TDA (2nd)

07 Aug 2012 | Poster | Contributor(s): Kevin Charles Kuei

Assessment of Seismic Performance of Masonry-Infilled Reinforced Concrete Frames webinar

22 May 2012 | Multimedia

Assessment of Seismic Performance of Masonry-Infilled Reinforced Concrete Frames is the sixth in a series of Research to Practice Webinars co-produced by the Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) and the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI). PDHs will be available from...