Practical Lessons from the Loma Prieta Earthquake : Report from a Symposium Sponsored by the Geotechnical Board and the Board on Natural Disasters of the National Research Council : Symposium Held in Conjunction with the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute ... [et al.].

Reviews research on the Loma Prieta quake and draws from it's practical lessons that can be applied to other earthquake-prone areas of the country. This work contains papers presented at a symposium on the earthquake and includes an overview written by the committee offering recommendations to...

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Corporate Authors: Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, Symposium on Practical Lessons from the Loma Prieta Earthquake
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1994.
Online Access:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1494
Table of Contents:
  • PRACTICAL LESSONS FROM THE LOMA PRIETA EARTHQUAKE
  • Copyright
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Overview: Lessons And Recommendations From The Committee For The Symposium On Practical Lessons From...
  • GENERAL OBSERVATIONS
  • EARTH SCIENCES
  • GEOTECHNICAL AND STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING
  • PLANNING AND EMERGENCY RESPONSE
  • NOTE ON SUPPORTING SOURCES
  • 1 Legacy Of The Loma Prieta Earthquake: Challenges To Other Communities
  • INTRODUCTION
  • THE NEED TO REACH OUT
  • THE NEED FOR SUSTAINED ADVOCACY
  • IRREVERSIBLE CHANGE
  • ROME WASN'T BUILT IN A DAY
  • IF YOU CAN'T DO IT RIGHT, DON'T DO IT
  • THE ABILITY TO PREDICT DAMAGE
  • CONCLUSION
  • 2 The Geotechnical Aspects
  • INTRODUCTION
  • OVERVIEW
  • LIQUEFACTION
  • Occurrence And Recurrence
  • Settlements
  • Lateral Spreading
  • Fill Densification As A Result Of Earthquake Shaking
  • Improved Ground
  • SITE AMPLIFICATION AND RESPONSE SPECTRA
  • SLOPES, FILLS, AND EMBANKMENTS
  • Natural Slopes
  • Engineered Embankments And Dams
  • Sanitary And Hazardous Waste Landfills
  • WATERFRONT CONTAINMENT STRUCTURES, PIERS, AND LATERAL RETAINING STRUCTURES
  • FOUNDATIONS
  • TUNNELS AND UNDERGROUND STRUCTURES
  • LESSONS LEARNED FROM THE GEOTECHNICAL ASPECTS OF THE LOMA PRIETA EARTHQUAKE
  • Liquefaction
  • Site Amplification
  • Slopes, Fills, And Embankments
  • Waterfront Containment Structures, Piers, And Retaining Structures
  • Foundations
  • Underground Structures
  • Areas For Future Concern
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • REFERENCES
  • DISCUSSANTS' COMMENTS: GEOTECHNICAL ISSUES
  • William Cotton, William Cotton &amp
  • Associates
  • Maurice S. Power, Geomatrix Consultants
  • Thomas Hanks, U.S. Geological Survey
  • C. Thomas Statton, Woodward-Clyde Consultants
  • 3 Buildings
  • INTRODUCTION
  • Functionality
  • Acceptable Risk
  • Ground Motion
  • Focus of Research
  • METHODOLOGY.
  • THE ROLE OF RESEARCH IN THE PRACTICAL LESSONS PROCESS
  • THE ROLE OF OBSERVATIONS IN THE PRACTICAL LESSONS PROCESS
  • PRINCIPAL FINDINGS
  • Seismic Risk
  • Acceptable Risk Policy
  • Owner Involvement
  • Definition of Seismic Risk
  • Building Departments
  • Tools and Technology Transfer
  • Building Damage Assessment
  • The Initial Assessment
  • A Question of Perspective
  • Ordinances Needed
  • Description Of Need
  • Retrofit Standards
  • Evaluation of Risk: A Challenge
  • Plan Checking and Site Inspections By Building Officials
  • Quality-Control Check Points
  • Some Action Is Possible
  • Strong Motion Instrumentation
  • Purpose And Use of the Data
  • Some Perspective
  • Building Performance
  • Owners And The Public Expectations
  • Performance, Design And The Code
  • Safety Versus Post-Earthquake Usage
  • Focus of Research
  • Residential Construction
  • The Profile of The Damaged Building
  • The Majority Of Structures
  • Old Materials
  • Unreinforced Masonry
  • Non-Engineered Structures
  • Non-Ductile Concrete
  • Research And Codes
  • Basic Principles
  • Soils And Building Performance
  • CONCLUSION
  • Acceptable Risk
  • Fundamentals, Not More Code Provisions
  • Peer Review For The Complex Projects
  • Detailed Inspection
  • Unreinforced Masonry
  • Need For Interaction Between Research And Practice
  • Direction And Funding Of Research
  • Ground Motion Data
  • CLOSURE
  • CITED REFERENCES
  • GENERAL REFERENCES
  • DOCUMENTS
  • DISCUSSANTS' COMMENTS: BUILDINGS SESSION
  • James Beavers, Martin Marietta Energy Systems
  • Stephen Mahin, University Of California, Berkeley
  • Gerald Jones, Kansas City Building Department
  • William Holmes, Rutherford &amp
  • Chekene
  • 4 Emergency Preparedness And Response
  • INTRODUCTION
  • OVERVIEW OF PREPAREDNESS AND RESPONSE STUDIES
  • HOW THE PUBLIC RESPONDED IN LOMA PRIETA: INDIVIDUAL AND HOUSEHOLD RESPONSES.
  • Actions During The Shaking Period
  • Injuries
  • Evacuation And Use Of Emergency Shelter
  • Response To Aftershock Warnings
  • RESPONSE OF GROUPS, OF ORGANIZATIONS, AND INTERORGANIZATIONAL NETWORKS
  • Emergent Groups And Volunteers
  • Local Emergency-Response Activities
  • Search And Rescue
  • Emergency Medical Services (Ems)
  • Damage Assessment
  • Response Of Public Transportation Networks
  • Lifeline Organizations
  • Local And State Emergency-Response Agencies
  • Intergovernmental Coordination
  • CONCLUDING COMMENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • REFERENCES
  • DISCUSSANTS' COMMENTS: EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS AND RESPONSE
  • Henry Renteria, City Of Oakland
  • Richard D. Ross, Missouri Emergency Management Agency
  • Richard Andrews, Governor's Office Of Emergency Services
  • Lacy Suiter, Tennessee Emergency Management Agency
  • 5 Lifeline Perspective
  • ABSTRACT
  • INTRODUCTION
  • LIFELINE SYSTEM PERFORMANCE DURING THE 1989 LOMA PRIETA EARTHQUAKE
  • Water Supply
  • Wastewater
  • Natural Gas
  • Oil Refineries And Associated Facilities
  • Electric Power
  • Communications
  • RESEARCH ACTIVITIES INITIATED AFTER THE EARTHQUAKE
  • Nsf-Sponsored Research
  • Other Research Efforts
  • Lessons Learned
  • Water Supply And Wastewater Systems
  • Natural Gas Systems
  • Electric Power Systems
  • Communication Systems
  • TRANSFERABILITY OF RESULTS
  • FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTIONS
  • REFERENCES
  • DISCUSSANTS' COMMENTS: LIFELINES
  • Thomas D. O'rourke, Cornell University
  • Donald Ballantyne, Kennedy/Jenks Consultants
  • Charles R. Roberts, Executive Director, Port Of Oakland
  • Steve Phillips, Pg&amp
  • E
  • 6 Highway Bridges
  • INTRODUCTION
  • PERFORMANCE OF PRIOR RESEARCH RESULTS
  • Properly Confined Column Reinforcement
  • Acceleration Response Spectra For Alluvium And Dense Foundation Materials
  • Base-Isolated Girder Systems.
  • PROBLEMS WITH EXISTING CRITERIA, DETAILS, AND PRACTICE
  • Older Bridges Designed For Pre-1972 Seismic Forces And Design Criteria
  • Seismic Performance Criteria Required
  • Dynamic Response Of Deep, Soft Foundations
  • Column-Footing Interaction
  • Inadequate Column-Confinement Reinforcement
  • Inadequate Beam-Column Joint Reinforcement
  • Inadequate Torsional Reinforcement
  • Pedestrian-Bridge Performance
  • Steel-Bridge Performance
  • Importance Factor Applied To Critical Bridges
  • RESEARCH IN SEISMIC RESPONSE OF BRIDGES
  • Development of Vulnerability-Analysis Algorithm
  • Establishment of Seismic Performance Criteria
  • Development of Acceleration Response Spectra For Deep Soft Bay Muds
  • Establishment Of Procedures For Out-Of-Phase And Non-Uniform Foundation Response
  • Foundation Design For Liquifiable Soil Sites
  • Pier Foundation And Abutment Soil-Structure Interaction
  • Ductile Column Design
  • Retrofit-Strengthening Procedures For Existing Non-Ductile Columns
  • Beam-Column Joint Confinement
  • Outrigger Bent Cap Performance Under Combined Bending, Shear, And Torsion
  • Seismic Performance Of Tall, Slender Pier Walls
  • Performance Of Column-Footing Joints Under Dynamic Loading
  • Bond Development Length Of Large-Diameter Reinforcing Steel Bars Under Dynamic Loading
  • Nonlinear Analysis Procedures For Reinforced-Concrete Members Subject To Dynamic Loads
  • Review And Revise Existing Seismic Design Specifications And Details
  • Base-Isolation Systems
  • Tension-Pile Capacity Tests
  • PRACTICAL LESSONS APPLICABLE TO OTHER AREAS AND STATES
  • Good Emergency-Response Plan
  • Vulnerability-Prioritization Procedure
  • Prioritization Of Phases Of Retrofit Work
  • Response Of Deep, Soft Soils
  • Ductile-Design Details
  • Soil-Structure Interaction
  • Response And Retrofitting Of Structural Steel Bridges
  • Nonlinear Analysis Procedures.
  • CITED REFERENCES
  • GENERAL REFERENCES
  • COMMISSIONED RESEARCH PROJECTS
  • DISCUSSANTS' COMMENTS: BRIDGES
  • James D. Cooper, Federal Highway Administration
  • Mitigation Strategy
  • Initiatives Required
  • Gregory Orsolini, Parsons Deleuw, Inc.
  • Beam-Column Joint Shear Design
  • Bent Cap Outrigger Design
  • Use of Simplified Nonlinear Analysis Methods for Seismic Analysis
  • Nicholas F. Forell, Forell/Elsesser Engineers
  • John Clark, Anderson Bjornstad Kane Jacobs
  • 7 Recovery, Mitigation, and Planning
  • FUNDING
  • RECOVERY PLANS AND REGULATIONS
  • MITIGATION
  • IMPORTANCE OF STATE LEGISLATION
  • DEMOLITION
  • HOUSING
  • BUSINESS RECOVERY
  • CONCLUSIONS
  • REFERENCES
  • DISCUSSANTS' COMMENTS: RECOVERY, MITIGATION, AND PLANNING
  • Kenneth C. Topping, Independent Consultant
  • Patricia A. Bolton, Battelle Seattle Research Center
  • Jerold H. Barnes, Salt Lake County Planning
  • APPENDIXES
  • APPENDIX A Symposium Presenters
  • PLENARY SESSION KEYNOTERS
  • PLENARY SESSION DISCUSSANTS
  • CONCURRENT BREAKOUT SESSION SPEAKERS
  • SYMPOSIUM COORDINATORS
  • APPENDIX B Symposium Agenda
  • APPENDIX C Attendees at the Symposium
  • APPENDIX D Biographical Sketches of the Members of the Committee on Practical Lessons From the Loma.

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