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SOME BASICS ON WHO'S WHO AND WHAT'S WHAT IN SEISMIC SAFETY
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... and presents short idiomatic and official titles of earthquake-related documents in Table 2. The text uses a description of the Federal earthquake program, the world of building codes, and the history of the NEHRP Recommended Provisions to illustrate the way in which many of these organizations and documents are related.
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... The World of Building Codes One major product of the NEHRP is the reference document titled "NEHRP Recommended Provisions for the Development of Seismic Regulations for New Buildings" (NEHRP Recommended Provisions)
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... National standards include design requirements for materials, such as the American Concrete Institute's "Building Code Requirements for Reinforced Concrete" (ACT 318) , the American Institute of Steel Construction's "Specifications for the Design, Fabrication, and Erection of Structural Steel for Buildings," the American Society of Civil Engineers standards ASCE 5 and 6, "Building Code Requirements for Masonry Structures" and "Specifications for Masonry for Masonry Structures," and the National Forest Products Association's "Design Values for Wood Construction." Testing, inspection, and construction standards developed by the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM)
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... Today the NEHRP Recommended Provisions present a second resource document that model codes can turn to for up-to-date seismic design and construction recommendations. While the NEHRP Recommended Provisions and the SEAOC Blue Book both incorporate the same research and investigation results, the documents differ because the NEHRP Recommended Provisions use ultimate strength design and the Blue Book uses allowable stress.
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... BSSC is currently reviewing guidance documents on seismic assessment and retrofit of existing buildings.
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... TABLE 1 Acronym In the U.S. Earthquake Comunicv Federal Organizations NEHRP National Earthquake Hazard Reduction Program NIST National Institute of standards and Technology FEMA Federal Emergency Mana/ement Agency NSF National Science Foundation USGS United States Geological Survey ICSSC Interagency Committee on Seismic Safety in Construction ICC Interagency Coordination Council PCG Policy Coordinating Group Private Sector Organizations EERI Earthquake Engineering Research Institute ATC Applied Technology Council ASCE American Society of Civil Engineers TCLEE Technical Council on Lifeline Earthquake Engineering of ASCE NIBS National Institute of Building Sciences BSSC Building Seismic Safety Council SEAOC Structural Engineers Association of California SEAONC Structural Engineers Association of Northern California SEAOSC Structural Engineers Association of Southern California Consortia and Quasi-governmental Organizations NCEER National Center for Earthquake Engineering Research CUREe California Universities for Research in Earthquake Engineering SCEC Southern California Earthquake Center CUSEC Central United States Earthquake Consortium CSSC California Seismic Safety Commission BAREPP Bay Area Regional Earthquake Preparedness Project SCEPP Southern California Earthquake Preparedness Project WSSPC Western States Seismic Policy Council Building Code Organizations ICBO International Conference of Building Officials BOCA Building Officials and Code Administrators SBCCI Southern Building Code Congress International CABO Council of American Building Officials Other Acronyms of Interest IDNDR International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction
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... no idiom yet NEHRP Handbook of Techniques for the Seismic Rehabilitation of Existing Buildings (BSSC consensus version of URS/Blume) Interagency Committee on Seismic Safety in Construction Recommended Practices ICSSC RP 1 Seismic Design Guidelines for Federal Buildings ICSSC RP 2 Guidelines and Procedures for Implementation of Executive Order on Seismic Safety (superseded by RP 2.1)
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... INOAAJ ( NRC ) ( TVA Figure 1 - NEHRP Federal Agencies FEMA )
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... ooo oo Oo oo0o f-N 27 agencies ° o Recommended Practices Education Technical Reports Figure 3 - Interagency Committee on Seismic Safety in Construction
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... SEAOC \ Blue Book" Figure 5 - Pattern of Seismic Code Improvement - pre-1980's NEHRP Recommended Provisions SEAOC \ "Blue Book" ) Figure 6 - Current Sources of Seismic Code Improvement 11
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