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- Title
- Seismic Design Decisions for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts State Buiding Code.
- File
- PB80178544.pdf
- Author(s)
- Krimgold, F.
- Source
- National Science Foundation, Washington, DC. Engineering and Applied Science, June 1977, 138 p.
- Identifying Number(s)
- MIT-CE-R77-27
- Abstract
- This report focuses attention on questions of estimating seismic risk in Massachusetts, determining a design earthquake, developing appropriate soil factors, and determining acceptable risk. Aside from documenting the decision process of the Seismic Advisory Committee, this report also attempts to evaluate the role of Seismic Design Decision Analysis (SDDA) methodology and the loss estimates provided by the research project in formulating recommended design criteria. The overall aim of this research is to develop data and procedures for balancing the increased cost of more resistant construction against the risk of losses during future earthquakes. To achieve this objective SDDA has provided a coherent structure for technical inputs from seismology and engineering research to the public policy process for earthquake hazard reduction.
- Keywords
- Seismic design; Earthquake resistant structures; Urban planning; Massachusetts; Seismic risk; Risk; Earthquake engineering; Soil properties; Legislation; Decision making; Building codes; SDDA project; Design criteria