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- Title
- Plan for a Design Study for a National Earthquake Engineering Experimental Facility.
- File
- PB89114714.pdf
- Author(s)
- Scribner, C. F.; Leyendecker, E. V.
- Source
- Federal Emergency Management Agency, Washington, DC., October 1986, 28 p.
- Identifying Number(s)
- NBSIR-86/3453
- Abstract
- The report describes the work plan for a four-phase study to determine the needs for and design details of a national earthquake engineering research facility. The need for data on the behavior of full-scale buildings and building components was recognized by the National Research Council in the report 'Earthquake Engineering Facilities and Instrumentation', which was produced by the NRC ad hoc Committee on Earthquake Engineering Facilities and Instrumentation in 1984. The report discusses in detail the study NBS will conduct in cooperation with the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the National Science Foundation, the United States Geological Survey, and other agencies.
- Keywords
- US NRC; Earthquake resistant structures; Stress; Static loads; Design; Standards; Earth movements; Engineering; Rock mechanics; Building codes; Earthquakes