Nonstructural seismic prevention and rehabilitation PDF

During the 1994 Northridge earthquake, 80%-90% of the damage to buildings ... the occupants or prevent them from escaping a building during a seismic event.

performance levels for structural and non-structural components, illustrated in Figure 2. These range from Operational, a perfor-mance state in which after a design event, the building and its contents are undamaged, to Collapse Prevention, a state of extreme dam-age to structural and nonstructural systems, just short of collapse.

nonstructural equipment use, chose to become a Certified Seismic Qualification Agency. Since 2003, The VMC Group has been providing seismic testing and certification for equipment manufacturers. The VMC Group has expanded our services to include a path for continued compliance and is currently the only agency with this capability. 1.2 Scope

7 Feb 2020 ... Learn how non-structural components should be secured in order to keep ... of building contents and incremental seismic rehabilitation/retrofit.

Seismic Actions of Nonstructural Components 14th U.S.-Japan Workshop on Improvement of Structural Design and Construction Practices December 3-5, 2012 Hiroshi ITO Director, Housing Renovation and Dis pute Settlement Research Institute, Seismic Rehabilitation Our engineering design and construction inspection services encompass all aspect and phases of a seismic rehabilitation project. State-of-the-art methodologies are applied to each project to assure the appropriate level of structural retrofit for the specific level of performance in a design level earthquake, e.g., immediate occupancy, life safety, or collapse prevention.