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National Information Service for Earthquake Engineering
University of California, Berkeley |
TCLEE Pipeline Failure Database
Le Val Lund, Civil Engineer, Los Angeles, California
Anshel Schiff, Precision Measurement Instruments, Los Altos Hills, California
The American Society of Civil Engineers, Technical Council on Lifeline Earthquake Engineering was awarded a grant by the National Science Foundation (NSF BCS-9011325) to develop a computer-based database of pipeline damage and enter data collected from the Loma Prieta earthquake. The earthquake occurred near the San Francisco Bay area in California, USA, on October 17, 1989. The purpose of this project is to develop a computer-based database to preserve information on the location, pipe size, pipe material and type of pipeline damage for the engineering, geolocical, seismological, and seismic risk communities, and for lifeline researchers. the resulting database and methodology will be available in a public depository, in diskette format for use on personal computers, to the engineering and scientific community for the cost of duplication. It is the intent to add pipeline damage data from future earthquakes to this database as resources permit.
The database is composed of records, one record for each pipe failure. Each record consists of 51 data fields, which describe the earthquake and the pipe damage. The compressed file (tclee.zip) contains the following files: