It's been 17 years since the Northridge earthquake, but thousands of soft-story structures in Los Angeles remain unfit to handle a similar tremor. In December, officials finished work on the ...
Non-ductile reinforced concrete buildings are among the most common structures in the United States. They are also among the most deadly. Structures built prior to the 1950s in California and prior to ...
Keywords: Retrofitting. Manuals. Highway infrastructure. Retaining structures. Slopes. Tunnels. Culverts. Roadways. Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). Performance ...
View Partners in Progress: From Homes to High Rises via Firehouse’s proprietary digital platform Clarity. Over the years, there have been many fire service “mantras” that have helped firefighters stay ...
SOCOTEC lifts the lid on the economic and environmental benefits of retrofitting buildings rather than demolishing them ...
Keywords: Steel plate shear walls (SPSW). Retrofitting. Seismic designs. Existing structures. Lateral force resisting systems. Moment strengths. Anchor beams. Multistory structures. Energy dissipation ...
Unfortunately, this book can't be printed from the OpenBook. If you need to print pages from this book, we recommend downloading it as a PDF. Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this ...
Los Angeles residents strongly back the city’s landmark earthquake retrofit law, a new poll has found, despite decades of conventional wisdom that such a rule would be politically unpopular because of ...
Unfortunately, this book can't be printed from the OpenBook. If you need to print pages from this book, we recommend downloading it as a PDF. Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this ...
Some results have been hidden because they may be inaccessible to you
Show inaccessible results