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Category : Buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Incremental Seismic Rehabilitation of Hospital Buildings
Author: Risk Management Series; Incremental Seismic Rehabilitation of Hotel and Motel Buildings
Author: Federal Emergency AgencyPublisher: FEMA
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Earthquakes are a serious threat to safety in hotel and motel buildings and pose a significant potential liability to owners and operators. Hotel and motel buildings in 39 states are vulnerable to earthquake damage. Unsafe existing buildings expose hotel and motel building owners, operators, and guests to the following risks: Death and injury to guests, visitors, and staff; Damage to or collapse of buildings; Damage to and loss of furnishings, equipment, and other building contents; and Disruption of hospitality functions and building operations. The greatest earthquake risk is associated with existing hotel and motel buildings that were designed and constructed before the use of modern building codes. For many parts of the United States, this includes buildings built as recently as the early 1990s. Although vulnerable hotel and motel buildings should be replaced with safe, new construction or rehabilitated to correct deficiencies, for many building owners, new construction is limited, at times severely, by budgetary constraints, and seismic rehabilitation is expensive and disruptive. However, incremental seismic rehabilitation, an innovative approach that phases in a series of discrete rehabilitation actions over a period of several years, is an effective, affordable, and non-disruptive strategy for responsible mitigation action that can be integrated efficiently into ongoing facility maintenance and capital improvement operations to minimize cost and disruption. This manual and its companion documents are the products of a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) project to develop the concept of incremental seismic rehabilitation-that is, building modifications that reduce seismic risk by improving seismic performance and that are implemented over an extended period, often in conjunction with other repair, maintenance, or capital improvement activities. It provides operators of hotels and motels and their owners, be they Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs), pension funds, partnerships, individuals, or other forms of ownership, with the information necessary to assess the seismic vulnerability of their buildings and to implement a program of incremental seismic rehabilitation for those buildings.
Risk Management Series: Incremental Seismic Rehabilitation of Office Buildings - Providing Protection to People and Buildings
Author: Incremental Seismic Rehabilitation of School Buildings(K-12); Providing Protection to People and Buildings
Author: Publisher: FEMA
ISBN:
Category : Earthquake resistant design
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Catalog of FEMA Earthquake Resources
Author: United States. Federal Emergency Management AgencyPublisher: FEMA
ISBN:
Category : Earthquake resistant design
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Techniques for the Seismic Rehabilitation of Existing Buildings
Author: Design Guide for Improving Hospital Safety in Earthquakes, Floods, and High Winds
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Category : Earthquake resistant design
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Performance-Based Seismic Design of Structures
Author: Satyabrata ChoudhuryPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1040037720
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 427
Book Description
Seismic design of structures is fast turning to performance-based design (PBD) from old codal force-based design (FBD) method. The aim of the book is to expose readers to the meaning and need of PBD, the evolution of PBD to date, its various forms and applications. Various design philosophies and procedures have been described including modelling aspects and hazard considerations backed by examples. Direct displacement-based design (DDBD) and Unified PBD (UPBD) of reinforced concrete (RC) frame buildings, RC dual systems, steel frame buildings and bridge piers have also been explained. The main features of this book are as follows: • Illustrates performance-based seismic design to achieve the design target by performance objective-oriented design procedure. • Covers modern design philosophies, modelling aspects, concepts in nonlinearities and use of supplemental damping devices. • Contains a chapter on seismic safety of nonstructural components. • Describes UPBD design procedure and examples of different structural systems. • Includes application and examples with reference to SAP2000 software. This book is aimed at graduate students, researchers and professionals in civil engineering, earthquake engineering and structural design.
Risk Management Series; Design Guide for Improving Hospital Safety in Earthquakes, Floods, and High Winds
Author: From Tsunami Science to Hazard and Risk Assessment: Methods and Models
Author: Stefano LoritoPublisher: Frontiers Media SA
ISBN: 2889717941
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description