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Strong-motion instrumentation refers to the equipment required to record ground and structural re... more Strong-motion instrumentation refers to the equipment required to record ground and structural response motions during moderate-to-large earthquakes. Public programs and regulatory requirements exist with the critical mission to collect and provide strong-motion data to the engineering and scientific communities. Although very useful for research and validating building code prescriptions, raw data is of little to no value to building owners/operators and design professionals. Recently, several leading consultant engineering and technology firms have teamed up to offer an Enhanced Rapid Post-Event Assessment service built upon utilizing timely information afforded by advanced strong-motion instrumentation. San Francisco, for example, and several other forward-thinking jurisdictions have established Building Occupancy Resumption Programs (BORP) that permit the building's "engineer-on-call" to be pre-deputized to perform the ATC-20 Red/Yellow/Green tagging of the buildin...
Nonlinear response history analysis (NLRHA) is being increasingly used in the process of designin... more Nonlinear response history analysis (NLRHA) is being increasingly used in the process of designing new buildings or existing building retrofits. The advantage of NLRHA is that it provides detailed and realistic information about the nonlinear behavior of a structure under realistic ground motion earthquake loading. However, the processing of setting up a nonlinear model, selecting ground motion records, performing the analysis under different ground motions, boundary conditions, material and soil properties (often including upper and lower bound analyses), and the consideration of multiple eccentricity cases, often results in a large and almost unmanageable task. Modern analysis software is capable of generating detailed output information describing the response of each element and component over the duration of the excitation. The analyst/designer is then faced with the overwhelming task of exporting, processing, and analyzing a very large amount of data, and performing the approp...
The Structural Design of Tall and Special Buildings, 2011
Incorporation of full-scale testing and nonlinear connection analyses into the seismic upgrade of... more Incorporation of full-scale testing and nonlinear connection analyses into the seismic upgrade of a 15-story steel moment frame building-Malley-2011-The Structural Design of Tall and Special Buildings-Wiley Online Library
Strong-motion instrumentation refers to the equipment required to record ground and structural re... more Strong-motion instrumentation refers to the equipment required to record ground and structural response motions during moderate-to-large earthquakes. Public programs and regulatory requirements exist with the critical mission to collect and provide strong-motion data to the engineering and scientific communities. Although very useful for research and validating building code prescriptions, raw data is of little to no value to building owners/operators and design professionals. Recently, several leading consultant engineering and technology firms have teamed up to offer an Enhanced Rapid Post-Event Assessment service built upon utilizing timely information afforded by advanced strong-motion instrumentation. San Francisco, for example, and several other forward-thinking jurisdictions have established Building Occupancy Resumption Programs (BORP) that permit the building's "engineer-on-call" to be pre-deputized to perform the ATC-20 Red/Yellow/Green tagging of the buildin...
Nonlinear response history analysis (NLRHA) is being increasingly used in the process of designin... more Nonlinear response history analysis (NLRHA) is being increasingly used in the process of designing new buildings or existing building retrofits. The advantage of NLRHA is that it provides detailed and realistic information about the nonlinear behavior of a structure under realistic ground motion earthquake loading. However, the processing of setting up a nonlinear model, selecting ground motion records, performing the analysis under different ground motions, boundary conditions, material and soil properties (often including upper and lower bound analyses), and the consideration of multiple eccentricity cases, often results in a large and almost unmanageable task. Modern analysis software is capable of generating detailed output information describing the response of each element and component over the duration of the excitation. The analyst/designer is then faced with the overwhelming task of exporting, processing, and analyzing a very large amount of data, and performing the approp...
The Structural Design of Tall and Special Buildings, 2011
Incorporation of full-scale testing and nonlinear connection analyses into the seismic upgrade of... more Incorporation of full-scale testing and nonlinear connection analyses into the seismic upgrade of a 15-story steel moment frame building-Malley-2011-The Structural Design of Tall and Special Buildings-Wiley Online Library