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Recommendations for a U.S.-Japan Cooperative Research Program Utilizing Large-Scale Testing Facilities

UCB/EERC-79/26, Earthquake Engineering Research Center, University of California, Berkeley, 1979-09-01, 125 pages (400/U817/1979)

Presented in this report are recommendations for a proposed U.S.-Japan Cooperative Research Program Utilizing Large-Scale Testing Facilities to be conducted under the auspices of the U.S.-Japan Panel on Wind and Seismic Effects, U.S.-Japan Natural Resources Program. Section II of this report sets forth the objective of the recommended program; Section III provides background information pertinent to the report; Section IV presents summaries and resolutions of the four U.S.-Japan Planning Group meetings; Sections V, VI, VII, and VIII describe recommended research related to reinforced concrete buildings, steel buildings, a pseudodynamic test method, and analytical studies, respectively; and Section IX presents concluding remarks on the overall cooperative program.

Available online: http://nisee.berkeley.edu/documents/EERC/EERC-79-26.pdf (9 MB)