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- Title
- Procedures for SDDA Boston Building Inventory. Seismic Design Decision Analysis, Internal Study Report No. 66.
- File
- PB80138985.pdf
- Author(s)
- Ochshorn, J.; Schumacker, B.
- Source
- National Science Foundation, Washington, DC. Engineering and Applied Science., August 1976, 22 p.
- Abstract
- Methods of obtaining building information and categorizing it with respect to seismic response for a ten-mile square area in Boston are described. A knowledge of the distribution of various types of buildings in an area is essential for estimating the consequences of a hypothetical earthquake. Problems involved in estimating the distribution of buildings generally are of two types: defining building types and associated probable consequences at various levels of shaking, and obtaining an inventory of the various building types. The first problem essentially entails reaching a compromise between the multiplicity of actual building types and the computational necessity of working with a limited number of types. The second problem is that of estimating numbers of buildings without actually counting them individually. Information was obtained from the city's assessing departments, building departments, the Sanborn Map Company, Bureau of Census tables on residential structures, aerial photography, Civil Defense data, maps and other sources. The appendix details the information obtained from these various sources.
- Keywords
- ; Earthquake resistant structures; Inventories; Massachusetts; Design standards; Buildings; Urban areas; Construction