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- Title
- Evaluation of Earthquake Damaged Concrete and Masonry Wall Buildings. Basic Procedures Manual.
- File
- PB2001100763.pdf
- Source
- Federal Emergency Management Agency, Washington, DC., January 1998, 270 p.
- Abstract
- Following the two damaging California earthquakes in 1989 (Loma Prieta) and 1994 (Northridge), many concrete wall and masonry wall buildings were repaired using federal disaster assistance funding. The repairs were based on inconsistent criteria, giving rise to controversy regarding criteria for the repair of cracked concrete and masonry wall buildings. To help resolve this controversy, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) initiated a project on evaluation and repair of earthquake damaged concrete and masonry wall buildings in 1996. The project was conducted through the Partnership for Response and Recovery (PaRR), a joint venture of Dewberry and Davis of Fairfax, Virginia, and Woodward-Clyde Federal Services of Gaithersburg, Maryland. The Applied Technology Council (ATC), under subcontract to PaRR, was responsible for developing technical criteria and procedures (the ATC-43 project). The ATC-43 project addresses the investigation and evaluation of earthquake damage and discusses policy issues related to the repair and upgrade of earthquake-damaged buildings.
- Keywords
- ; Masonry; Procedures manual; Evaluation; Damage; Walls; Concrete blocks; Buildings; Stability; Safety; Earthquakes