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Evaluation of the Design Criteria and Instrumented Response of Three Engineered Structures in the Loma Prieta Earthquake.
David M. Bergman, Joseph P. Nicoletti, Rabieh I. Khoury, and Kerry P. McCoy John A. Blume & Associates, San Francisco, California.
The design criteria and instrumented response of three San Francisco Bay Area structures to the Loma Prieta earthquake were studied. Located in San Francisco, Emeryville, and San Jose, California, each of the three buildings were designed for lateral forces greater than those required by governing codes. Furthermore, none of the three structures incurred significant damage during the earthquake. The design criteria for all three buildings was developed by URS/John A. Blume & Associates, Engineers of San Francisco. The objective of the research was two-fold. First, to assess the adequacy of code lateral force provisions for the design of buildings in regions of high seismicity and to quantify any advantages of using more rigorously developed design criteria. The second objective is to construct computer models of the three heavily instrumented buildings for the purpose of reconciling predicted with measured response. The second phase verified the use of an industry standard finite element code, SAP90+, for the purpose of dynamic structural analysis.
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