Seligson, H. A.; Eguchi, R. T.; Tierney, K. J.; Richmond, K.
Chemical Hazards, Mitigation and Preparedness in Areas of High Seismic Risk: A Methodology of Estimating the Risk of Post-Earthquake Hazardous Materials Release.
National Center for Earthquake Engineering Research, Buffalo, NY.; National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA.,
November 7, 1996,
140 p.
Keywords: Scenarios; Risk assessment; Vulnerability; Gases; Fault tree analysis; Chlorine; Public safety; Soil-structure interactions; Facilities management; Chemical plants; Plumes; Chemical hazards; Earthquake damage; Diffusion modeling; Ammonia; Damage probability matrix; Ground motion; Earthquake engineering; Emergency preparedness; Failure analysis; Seismic effects; Emergency plans; Hazardous materials spills; Dispersion; Mitigation; Hazards analysis
Journal of Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, July/August 1994. Volume 99, Number 4. Special Issue: Extreme Value Theory and Applications. Proceedings of the Conference on Extreme Value Theory and Applications, Volume 2. Held at Gaithersburg, Maryland, in May 1993.
May 1993,
302 p.
Keywords: Uses; Bayesian analysis; Aerosols; Ozone; Weibull density functions; Extreme-value problems; Fatigue limit; Extremum values; Seismic risk; Ground motion; Ocean waves; Meetings; Spacecraft electronic equipment; Failure analysis; Wind velocity; Corrosion; Floods; Radiation damage; Loads (Forces); Risk analysis; Sequences (Mathematics); Multivariate analysis; Extreme value theory; Microelectronics
Blackman, B.; Popov, E. P.
Studies in Steel Moment Resisting Beam-to-Column Connections for Seismic-Resistant Design.
National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA.; American Inst. of Steel Construction, Chicago, IL.,
October 1995,
158 p.
Identifying Number(s): UCB/EERC-95/11
Keywords: ; Earthquake resistance; Load distribution; Building codes; Earthquake engineering; Failure (Mechanics); Loads (Forces); Seismic design; Welds; Joints (Junctions); Brittleness; Structural steels; Failure analysis; Seismic effects; Structural members; Structural response; Columns (Supports); Beams (Structural); Dynamic structural analysis
Cheng, F. Y.; Lou, K.; Sheng, L. H.
Collapse Studies of Mission-Gothic Undercrossing and Bull Creek Canyon Channel Bridge during the January 17, 1994 Northridge Earthquake.
National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA.,
August 1996,
137 p.
Identifying Number(s): CIVIL ENGINEERING STUDY-96-6
Keywords: Earthquake damage; Dynamic response; Ductility; Damage assessment; Ground motion; Soil-strucutre interactions; Cracking (Fracturing); Collapse; Highway bridges; Nonlinearity; Dynamic strucutral analysis; Finite element method; Failure analysis; Seismic effects; Structural members; Displacement; Columns (Supports); Flared columns; Northridge Earthquake; Reinforced concretes; Bending