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- Title
- National Earthquake Engineering Experimental Facility Study. Phase One. Large Scale Testing Needs.
- File
- PB87187225.pdf
- Author(s)
- Scribner, C. F.; Culver, C. G.
- Source
- Federal Emergency Management Agency, Washington, DC.; National Science Foundation, Washington, DC., April 1987, 78 p.
- Identifying Number(s)
- NBS/SP-729
- Abstract
- The report summarizes information obtained during the first year of a four-year feasibility study for a national earthquake engineering experimental facility. A five-year research program is presented for a national facility in which full-scale or large-scale structures or structural components would be subjected to static or dynamic lateral loads. The facility would have applicability to tests in the following areas: low-rise buildings, medium-rise buildings, high-rise buildings, industrial processing facilities, and power facilities. Representatives from a broad spectrum of professional, industrial, and trade organizations and Federal agencies participated in developing the research program. A comparison of existing testing facilities in the U.S. and other countries engaged in seismic testing and a discussion of international cooperation in large-scale testing are included.
- Keywords
- Structural engineering; Planning; Industrial plants; Test facilities; Low rise buildings; High rise buildings; Dynamic tests; Buildings; Earthquake engineering; Seismic effects