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Optimal Cost Basis for Seismic Design
The paper summarizes a methodology for establishing seismic design levels based on a cost-benefit assessment. The methodology requires the development of costs and benefits for varying...

Geotechnical Instrumentation for Repository Shafts
The United States Congress passed the Nuclear Waste Policy Act in 1980, which required that three distinctly different geologic media be investigated as potential candidate sites for the...

Seismic Performance and Retrofit of the Golden Gate Bridge
The Golden Gate Bridge has served for over fifty years as a vital transportation link connecting San Francisco with the area to the north. The Bridge is owned, operated, and maintained...

Study of Failures of Towers and Tall Buildings Under Wind Loading
In this paper, two kinds of wind-excited limit states on a tall structure are investigated and corresponding formulae for the limit wind pressures are presented. In solving the wind-excited...

Response of Isolated Structures to Recent California Earthquakes
A significant amount of research and development, shake table testing computer modelling and real world applications have been performed with the seismic isolation design concept in the...

Evaluation of US Seismic Code Provisions for Asymmetric-Plan Systems
The effects of plan asymmetry on the earthquake response of code-designed, one-story systems are identified with the objective of evaluating how well these effects are represented by torsional...

Empirical Prediction of Strong Ground Motion
In 1982, we published equations for the prediction of various measures of ground motion as a function of earthquake magnitude, distance from the earthquake rupture, and site geology. Many...

Three-Dimensional Simulations of Ground Motions in Sedimentary Basins
This report describes work being done at the U.S. Geological Survey on 3-D simulations of earthquake ground motions in sedimentary basins. The ultimate goal of this research is to predict...

GIS Mapping of Earthquake Ground Shaking in San Francisco, California
Severe earthquakes of the last decade in Mexico, Armenia, and the United States have reemphasized the importance of local geologic site conditions in estimating damage and consequent losses....

Seismic Condition Assessment of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge
The project summarized here was initiated at the University of California at Berkeley to study seismic behavior of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and to develop recommendations for...

Code Provisions for Unreinforced Masonry Bearing Wall Buildings in California
Prior to the Long Beach earthquake of 1933, unreinforced masonry (URM) construction was usual in California, as it still is in many areas of the United States. The poor performance of...

Seismic Retrofit of Building Structures with Unreinforced Masonry Infill Walls
The paper summarizes the result of an analytical study conducted by the authors concerning the evaluation of the seismic performance of buildings with unreinforced masonry infills. The...

Report and Summary of ATC-31?Evaluation of the Performance of Seismically Retrofitted Buildings
Structural and damage data for seismically retrofitted buildings affected by the October 1, 1987 Whittier Narrows and October 17, 1989 Loma Prieta, California earthquakes were collected...

Dynamic Field Response Studies and Earthauqke Instrumentation of the Meloland Road Overcrossing
Ambient vibration data was obtained at the Meloland Road Overcrossing near El Centro in California by The California Department of Transportation (CALTRANS) as part of a 1978 Federal Highway...

Modeling Bridge Abutment Stiffness for the Meloland Road Overcrossing
A simplified equivalent spring model representing the dynamic stiffness of a highway bridge abutment system is developed for use in seismic response studies. It is based on linear elastic...

Dynamic Soil-Foundation Interaction at the Meloland Road Overcrossing
Forced vibration tests, using a hydraulic ram device, were conducted on the Meloland Road Overcrossing (MRO) bridge over Interstate 8 near El Centro, California. Dynamic response data...

System Identification of the Meloland Overcrossing Using Static and Dynamic Field Data
A system identification study was performed using a computer finite element bridge model and measured static and dynamic response data obtained from full-scale quick-release ram field...

Ductility Analysis for Seismic Retrofit of Multi-Column Bridge Structures, Santa Monica Viaduct
A new procedure is being developed for the ductility analysis of multi-column bridges. The formation of the plastic hinges in the structure (columns and/or superstructure) is followed...

Lifeline Structure Design Issues?A Case Study of Current Bridge Seismic Design and Application of Recent Seismic Design Research
The purpose of this paper is to present the major design issues addressed in the design of Terminal Separation (Replace) and I-880 Reconstruction. To address these issues Caltrans set...

Tension Pile Test
The California Department of Transportation is conducting FULL SCALE AXIAL LOAD TESTS of 34 piles. This research project/proof test is being jointly conducted by public agencies (Caltrans...

 

 

 

 

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