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Developing methodologies for evaluating the earthquake safety of existing buildings

Bresler, Boris; Okada, Tsuneo; Zisling, David; Bertero, Vitelmo V.

UCB/EERC-77/06, Earthquake Engineering Research Center, University of California, Berkeley, 1977-02, 157 pages (400/B72/1977)

This report contains four papers written during an investigation of methods for evaluating the safety of existing school buildings under National Science Foundation-Research Applied to National Needs grants. These papers are not readily available to researchers and engineers in the United States and are therefore issued as a single report. The papers are as follows: Evaluation of earthquake safety of existing buildings, by B. Bresler; Assessment of earthquake safety and of hazard abatement, by B. Bresler, T. Okada, and D. Zisling; Seismic safety of existing low-rise reinforced concrete buildings, by T. Okada and B. Bresler; Design and engineering decisions: failure criteria (limit states), by V. V. Bertero and B. Bresler.

Available online: http://nisee.berkeley.edu/documents/EERC/EERC-77-06.pdf (5 MB)