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PERFORMANCE OF EXISTING
BUILDINGS AND OTHER
STRUCTURES
PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2009 ATC & SEI CONFERENCE ON IMPROVING
THE SEISMIC PERFORMANCE OF BUILDINGS AND OTHER STRUCTURES
ORGANIZED BY
EDITED BY
Barry Goodno, Ph.D., P.E.
Buildings are the backbone of the world's infrastructure - they house our families and
businesses, provide emergency shelter, provide places for education, enable our
industries, and bring about an improved standard of living for people throughout the
world. Without this backbone, civilization doesn't exist. Each year buildings and
other structures are designed and built with a continually improving understanding of
their performance during earthquakes, yet the vast majority of structures were built
with substantially less understanding of seismic actions than we currently possess.
The challenges to improving the seismic performance of existing buildings and other
structures are as broad and varied as the individual structures themselves. How
should they be evaluated and strengthened? What plans exist? What materials were
used? What assumptions were made? Were they built as designed, and if not, what
modifications were made but possibly (probably) not documented?
To begin addressing these and other critical issues, the Applied Technology Council
and the Structural Engineering Institute of ASCE organized this conference held on
December 9-11, 2009 in San Francisco, California. This inaugural conference is the
first conference dedicated solely to improving the seismic performance of existing
buildings and other structures. The program was planned to provide a forum for the
presentation and exchange of new information on the seismic evaluation and seismic
rehabilitation of existing buildings, including case studies, new discoveries,
innovative use of new technologies and materials, implementation issues, needed
improvements to existing standards and methods, and socio-economic issues.
The goal of the Conference, and hence these proceedings, was to provide an
invaluable opportunity to advance the professions understanding of the tools,
techniques and innovations available to assist in meeting the challenges of seismic
evaluation and rehabilitation. For those new to the profession, these proceedings are
an opportunity to get up to speed on core issues surrounding seismic rehabilitation.
Thank you to everyone who participated in making the Conference a tremendous
success whether it was attending, presenting, or helping to organize the event.
Evaluation of the ASCE 41 Linear Elastic Procedure for Seismic Retrofit of Existing 85
Structures: Pros and Cons of the Method
Luis A. Toranzo-Dianderas
Observations from California's Unreinforced Masonry and Public School Programs 125
and the California Multi-Hazard Mitigation Plan
Fred Turner and Julie Norris
Risk Based Seismic Evaluation of Pre-1973 Hospital Buildings Using the HAZUS 137
Methodology
Chris Tokas and Roy Lobo
The Policy Problem of Non-Ductile Concrete Buildings in Los Angeles: Costly 161
Earthquakes, Uncertain Owners
Fynnwin Prager, Jennie Tucker, and Lena Prudence Sneberger
Roble Hall at Stanford University: A Case Study in the Evolution of Seismic 212
Rehabilitation Standards
Bret Lizundia
Seismic Risk Reduction for Schools with Stone Slab Roof Systems in Delhi 258
W. T. Holmes, J. E. Rodgers, S. Wij, M. Gupta, H. Kumar, L. T. Tobin, and A. Seth
Development of Guidelines and Effective Retrofit Strategies for Public Schools 268
and Hospitals in Istanbul, Turkey
H. Kit Miyamoto, Amir S. J. Gilani, S. B. Erdurmus, and M. E. Akdogan
Performance Comparisons of Seismic Assessment Methods with PSD Test Results 319
of a Deficient RC Frame
G. Ozcebe, E. G. Kurt, B. Binici, O. Kurc, E. Canbay, and U. Akpinar
Evaluation and Retrofit Provisions for Bay Area Soft Story Woodframe Buildings 331
Stephen K. Harris, David L. McCormick, Stephen T. Bono, and David Bonowitz
Recommended Directions for IEBC Appendix Chapter A4: Earthquake Hazard 350
Reduction in Existing Wood-Frame Residential Buildings with Soft, Weak, or Open-Front
Walls
Kelly E. Cobeen, Gary R. Searer, Terrence F. Paret, and Sigmund A. Freeman
Soft/Weak Story Problems and Solutions for Residential Structures 358
Gary R. Searer, Joseph Valancius, and Kelly E. Cobeen
Performance Based Seismic Retrofit of the Los Angeles Downtown Women's 415
Center Project
Saif M. Hussain, Paul Van Benschoten, Silian Lin, and David Johnson
An Action Plan for Improving the Seismic Performance of Existing Buildings: ATC 442
71
A. T. Merovich
Concept Paper on Utilizing the FEMA P695 (ATC-63) Ground Motion Spectral 453
Shape Guidelines to Adjust the Target Displacement in the ASCE/SEI 41 Nonlinear Static
Procedure
C. B. Haselton, C. A. Kircher, and A. B. Liel
Local Deformation Measures for RC Column Shear Failures Leading to Collapse 500
Matthew R. LeBorgne and Wassim M. Ghannoum
A Definition Undone: Explicit Estimation of PMLs in the Age of Reliance on Design 584
Ground Motion Records
Mahmoud M. Hachem, Terrence F. Paret, and Gary R. Searer
Report Cards for Buildings: A Proposed Rating System for Earthquake 593
Performance
Ron Mayes, Kate Stillwell, Marguerite Bello, Mathew Bittleston, Stephen Bono, David Bonowitz,
Evelyn Bravo, Doug Hohbach, David McCormick, Lee Pursell, and Ann Roche
The Problems with PMLs 605
Gary R. Searer, Terrence F. Paret, Brian E. Kehoe, and Mahmoud M. Hachem
Response Spectrum Method for Estimation of Peak Floor Acceleration Demand 627
Shahram Taghavi and Eduardo Miranda
FEMA P-440A: Effects of Strength and Stiffness Degradation on the Seismic 721
Response of Structural Systems
Jon A. Heintz
Improving Seismic Performance Using Seismic Isolation and/or Tuned Mass Dampers
Analytical and Experimental Studies on Seismic Behavior of Buildings with Mid- 855
Story Isolation
K. C. Chang, J. S. Hwang, S. J. Wang, and B. H. Lee
Seismic Isolation Retrofit for Existing Buildings in Japan 867
N. Kani and S. Katsuta
Assessment of ASCE-7 Ground Motion Scaling Method Using Computer Model of 905
Instrumented High-Rise Building
Erol Kalkan and Mehmet elebi
Identification and Modeling of Limit States of Viscous Dampers under Large 937
Earthquakes
H. Kit Miyamoto, Amir S. J. Gilani, and Akira Wada
Arc Shaped Damper Retrofit Technique for Existing Rail Way Viaduct Structures 979
H. Ohuchi, Y. Nakata, K. Ohgi, and H. Tsunokake
The Evaluation of a Damper Device with High Damping Rubber for Wooden 1046
Houses
Tomoki Furuta and Masato Nakao
FRP Retrofit for Collapse Mitigation of RC Frames with URM Infills: 3-D 1086
Computational Modeling of an As-Built and Retrofitted One Story Building
Wassim I. Naguib, Mohamed Talaat, and Ahmet Citipitioglu
Seismic Behavior of Reinforced Concrete Frame with New CFRP Units Infilled 1105
Wall
Y. Tateishi, Y. Jinno, Y. Kimoto, and A. Hattori
Istanbul Seismic Risk Mitigation and Emergency Preparedness Project (ISMEP) 1129
K. G. Elgin
Earthquakes and Existing Buildings: New Zealand Experience 1968 to 2008 1153
David C. Hopkins
Problem to Policy: Linking Hazard and Residential Building Data to Policy 1175
Decisions
J. B. Perkins
ATC-50, Seismic Grading and Retrofitting Project for Detached Single-Family 1180
Wood-Frame Dwellings
Ronald T. Eguchi, Christopher Rojahn, David Breiholz, Shafat Qazi, Robert A. Bruce, L. Thomas
Tobin, and Nick Delli Quadri
Loss Estimates for Large Soft-Story Woodframe Buildings in San Francisco 1191
Keith Porter and Kelly Cobeen
Applications and Challenges to Using HAZUS-MH for Building Seismic Risk 1241
Awareness
Stefan Otto
Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Assessment for Quetta and Surrounding Region 1258
Mohammad Tahir, M. Ali Shah, J. R. Grasso, M. Qaisar, and Javed Iqbal
Evaluation and Retrofit for Fault Rupture: UC Berkeley, Bowles Hall 1281
Joe Maffei, Lucy Redmond, and John Burton
The Improving of the Seismic Performance of Existing Old Public Unreinforced 1317
Masonry Buildings
I. Vlad
Traditional and Innovative Techniques for the Seismic Strengthening of Barrel 1329
Vaulted Structures Subjected to Rocking of the Abutments
Luca Ferrario, Alessandra Marini, Paolo Riva, and Ezio Giuriani
Posters
Poster Session 1
Cyclic Model for High Performance Fiber Reinforced Cementitious Composite 1341
Structures
Chung-Chan Hung and Sherif El-Tawil
Development of Seismic Vulnerability Curves for Masonry Buildings Using the 1353
Applied Element Method
A. Karbassi and M.-J. Nollet
Poster Session 2
Steel Bar Fracture of Reinforced Concrete Frame under Extremely Strong 1417
Seismic Load
Motoo Saisho
Poster Session 3