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  • Okrent, D.
    A Survey of Expert Opinion on Low Probability Earthquakes.
    National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C. Research Applied to National Needs., February 1975, 58 p.
    Identifying Number(s): UCLA-ENG-7515
    Keywords: Louisiana; Massachusetts; Risk analysis; Seismic risk; Probability theory; North Carolina; Site surveys; Nuclear power plants; History; Geological faults; Mississippi; Nebraska; California; Oregon; Risk; South Carolina; Ohio; Earthquake engineering; Delaware; Earthquakes

  • Veneziano, D.
    Probabilistic and Statistical Models for Seismic Risk Analysis.
    National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C. Research Applied to National Needs., July 1975, 156 p.
    Identifying Number(s): MIT-CE-R75-34
    Keywords: Probability theory; Seismic design; Damage assessment; Earthquake resistant structures; Massachusetts; Seismic risk; Earth movements; Ground motion; Earthquake engineering; Buildings; Risk; Nuclear power plants; Seismic design decision analysis; Earthquakes

  • Hsieh, T.; Okrent, D.; Apostolakis, G. E.
    On the Average Probability Distribution of Peak Ground Acceleration in the U.S. Continent Due to Strong Earthquakes.
    National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C. Research Applied to National Needs., March 1975, 45 p.
    Identifying Number(s): UCLA-ENG-7516
    Keywords: Probability theory; Probability distribution functions; Risk analysis; Seismic risk; Earth movements; United States; Ground motion; Earthquake engineering; Site surveys; Nuclear power plants; Eastern United States; Earthquakes

  • Valera, J. E.; Seed, H. B.; Tsai, C. F.; Lysmer, J.
    Soil-Structure Interaction Effects at the Humboldt Bay Power Plant in the Ferndale Earthquake of June 7, 1975.
    National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C., January 1977, 53 p.
    Identifying Number(s): UCB/EERC-77/02
    Keywords: Ferndale Earthquake; California; Earth movements; Finite element analysis; Ground motion; Earthquake engineering; Nuclear reactor safety; Humbolt Bay Nuclear Power Plant; Nuclear power plants; Soil dynamics; Soil structure interactions; Earthquakes

  • Dasgupta, G.; Chopra, A. K.
    Dynamic Stiffness Matrices for Homogeneous Viscoelastic Halfplanes.
    National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C., November 1977, 125 p.
    Identifying Number(s): UCB/EERC-77/26
    Keywords: Stiffness methods; Computer programs; Earth movements; Dynamic response; Ground motion; Earthquake engineering; Stresses; Nuclear power plants; Soil structure interactions; Earthquakes; Boundary value problems

  • Gonzalez, J. J.; Roesset, J. M.
    Dynamic Interaction between Adjacent Structures.
    National Science Foundation, Washington, DC. Div. of Advanced Environmental Research and Technology., September 1977, 45 p.
    Identifying Number(s): ['R77-30', 'MIT-CE-R77-30']
    Keywords: Seismic waves; Earth movements; Dynamic response; Ground motion; Earthquake engineering; Finite element analysis; Nuclear power plants; Soil dynamics; Soil structure interactions; Foundations; Interactions

  • Porcella, R. L.
    Seismic Engineering Program Report, January-March 1976.
    National Science Foundation, Washington, DC. Applied Science and Research Applications., March 1976, 24 p.
    Identifying Number(s): CIRC-736-A
    Keywords: Seismic waves; California; Guatemala; Earth movements; Ground motion; Earthquake engineering; Seismological stations; Buildings; Nuclear power plants; Seismic surveys; Soil structure interactions; Seismographs; Accelerometers; Earthquakes

  • Apostolakis, G. E.
    The Effect of a Certain Class of Potential Common Mode Failures on the Reliability of Redundant Systems.
    National Science Foundation, Washington, DC. Office of Energy R and D Policy., November 1975, 42 p.
    Identifying Number(s): UCLA-ENG-7528
    Keywords: Statistical analysis; Failure; Mathematical models; Nuclear reactor safety; Risk; Birth and death processes; Nuclear power plants; Common mode failures; Reliability; Redundancy; Nuclear reactor accidents

  • Schumacker, B.
    Seismic Design Decision Analysis. Nuclear Power Plants and the Operating Basis Earthquake - Phase I.
    National Science Foundation, Washington, DC. Applied Science and Research Applications., January 1975, 10 p.
    Identifying Number(s): INTERNAL STUDY-51
    Keywords: Probability theory; Intensity; Reactor shutdown; Inspection; Mathematical models; Computer programming; Nuclear power plants; Earthquakes

  • Taleb-Agha, G.; Hein, K.
    Multiple Failure Risk of Spatially Distributed Structures. Seismic Design Decision Analysis.
    National Science Foundation, Washington, DC. Applied Science and Research Applications., February 1975, 17 p.
    Identifying Number(s): INTERNAL STUDY-53
    Keywords: Probability theory; Earthquake resistant structures; Failure; New England; Massachusetts; Vermont; Seismic risk; New Hampshire; Rhode Island; Maine; Ground motion; Earthquake engineering; Nuclear power plants; Earthquakes