9th US National and 10th
Canadian Conference on
Earthquake Engineering 2010
Including Papers from the 4th International Tsunami Symposium
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
25-29 July 2010
Volume 1 of 9
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
VOLUME 1
OPENING PLENARY SESSION
1894 THE 21ST CENTURY GOAL FOR SEISMIC SAFETY RESILIENT CITIES ................................................................................ 1
Chris D. Poland
1895 A SHORT, SELECTIVE, PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE ON THE ROLE OF STRUCTURAL
CONSULTANTS AND DESIGN PRACTITIONERS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF CANADIAN
EARTHQUAKE CODES WITH A FEW EXAMPLES .............................................................................................................................. 13
Ron Devall
MONDAY PLENARY SESSION
1896 SCENARIO SPECTRA FOR DESIGN GROUND MOTIONS AND RISK CALCULATION..................................................... 33
N. A. Abrahamson, L. Al Atik
1897 FUTURE DIRECTIONS IN GEOTECHNICAL EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING.................................................................... 45
R. W. Boulanger
1898 SOCIETAL DIMENSIONS OF EARTHQUAKES AND OTHER DISASTERS: FINDINGS IN SEARCH OF
THEORY ........................................................................................................................................................................................................... 54
Kathleen Tieney
1899 UNDERSTANDING INTERDEPENDENCIES AMONG CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURES ................................................... 75
C. E. Ventura, H. Juarez Garcia, J. M. Marti
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
DESIGN AND ASSESSMENT OF REINFORCED CONCRETE BUILDINGS
371 EVALUATION OF SHEAR WALL INDEXES FOR RC BUILDINGS ............................................................................................ 95
Ahmet Yakut, Ozan Soydas
542 DISPLACEMENT BASED SEISMIC DESIGN OF CONCRETE WALL FRAME STRUCTURES .......................................... 105
Farrokh Fazileh, Jag Mohan Humar
562 ON THE SEISMIC SHEAR DEMAND ON WALLS IN DUCTILE RC DUAL SYSTEMS......................................................... 115
Avigdor Rutenberg, Emad Nsieri
739 COMPARATIVE DESIGN OF REINFORCED CONCRETE SHEAR WALLS REGARDING DUCTILITY
AND BUILDING CODES REQUIREMENTS ........................................................................................................................................... 125
Samer Jabbour, Dan Carson
822 AN OVERLOOKED FAILURE MECHANISM OF REINFORCED CONCRETE BEAM-COLUMN JOINTS...................... 135
Hitoshi Shiohara, Fumio Kusuhara
1771 INTERRELATION OF AXIAL LOAD LEVEL AND CONFINING PRESSURE FOR MINIMUM
DUCTILITY DESIGN OF CONCRETE COLUMNS............................................................................................................................... 145
J. C. M. Ho
DAMS AND LEVEES
737 EARTHQUAKE RESPONSE OF ARCH DAMS TO SPATIALLY-VARYING GROUND MOTION....................................... 155
Anil Chopra, Jin-Ting Wang
790 RESPONSE OF CONCRETE GRAVITY DAMS TO SPATIALLY VARYING EARTHQUAKE GROUND
MOTIONS....................................................................................................................................................................................................... 165
Aspasia Zerva, Junjie Huang
1211 A NEW SIMPLIFIED METHOD FOR EARTHQUAKE ANALYSIS OF GRAVITY DAMS .................................................. 175
Najib Bouaanani, Benjamin Miquel
1737 SEISMIC FRAGILITY ASSESSMENT OF CONCRETE GRAVITY DAMS USING NONLINEAR
DYNAMIC ANALYSIS WITH MASSED FOUNDATION ...................................................................................................................... 185
Mohsen Ghaemian, Soha Mirzahosseinkashani
1056 A GIS-ENABLED APPROACH TO RISK-ASSESSMENT OF LEVEE SYSTEMS................................................................... 195
Adda Athanasopoulos-Zekkos, Mustafa Saadi
1113 KEY PARAMETERS FOR SINGLE-INPUT EARTHQUAKE ANALYSIS OF ARCH DAMS ............................................... 205
Jean Proulx, Carlos Ayala-Paredes
FIBER-REINFORCED POLYMER COLUMN RETROFIT
1595 SURFACE BOND CHARACTERISTICS OF FRP SHEETS FOR SEISMIC RETROFIT APPLICATIONS........................ 215
Behnam Shadravan, Murat Saatcioglu
205 STRENGTH AND DEFORMATION OF RC COLUMN RETROFITTED USING ARAMID BELTS WITH
LARGE SPACING......................................................................................................................................................................................... 225
Toshikatsu Ichinose, Nobuaki Hanai, Kazumasa Kosugi, Mitsuhiro Takeda
892 SEISMIC RETROFIT OF RECTANGULAR RC COLUMNS USING CFRP WRAPPING AND CFRP
ANCHORS ...................................................................................................................................................................................................... 235
Min-Lang Lin, Keh-Chyuan Tsai, Chih-Tsung Lin, Pei-Ching Chen, Ying-Han Wu
757 PERFORMANCE-BASED DESIGN OF FRP JACKETS FOR PLASTIC HINGE CONFINEMENT OF
CONCRETE COLUMNS.............................................................................................................................................................................. 245
Chris Pantelides, Domingo Moran
687 EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF CONCRETE COLUMNS CONFINED WITH SHAPE MEMORY ALLOYS ........................ 255
Moochul Shin, Bassem Andrawes
SPECIAL SESSION: CHANGES IN THE SEISMIC DESIGN OF WOOD BUILDINGS TO REACH NEW
HEIGHTS
433 SIMPLIFIED PERFORMANCE-BASED SEISMIC DESIGN OF NEESWOOD CAPSTONE BUILDING
AND PRE-TEST PERFORMANCE EVALUATION................................................................................................................................ 263
Weichiang Pang, David Rosowsky, John Van De Lindt, Shiling Pei
1447 EXPERIMENTAL TESTING OF A TWO-STOREY POST-TENSIONED ................................................................................. 273
Michael Newcombe, Stefano Pampanin, Andrew Buchanan
1571 SEISMIC BUILDING CODE PROVISIONS FOR MID-RISE WOOD-FRAME CONSTRUCTION IN
BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA .............................................................................................................................................................. 283
Steven Kuan, Erol Karacabeyli, Chun Ni
1662 THE NEESWOOD PROJECT IN REVIEW..................................................................................................................................... 291
John Van De Lindt, David Rosowsky, Andre Filiatrault, Michael Symans, Rachel Davidson
1700 SEISMIC PERFORMANCE OF X-LAM BUILDINGS: THE ITALIAN SOFIE PROJECT .................................................... 301
Ario Ceccotti, Carmen Sandhaas, Motoi Yasumura
SEISMIC INPUT AND ANALYSIS STRATEGIES
442 INCREMENTAL DYNAMIC ANALYSIS OF NONLINEAR STRUCTURES: SELECTION OF INPUT
GROUND MOTIONS .................................................................................................................................................................................... 311
Pierre Léger, Gaelle Kervegant, Robert Tremblay
1653 A STUDY ON THE DEPENDENCY OF SEISMIC INPUT ENERGY ON THE CHARACTERISTIC OF
STRUCTURAL HYSTERETIC BEHAVIOR BY USING AN EXPLICIT HYSTERETIC MATHEMATICAL
MODEL ........................................................................................................................................................................................................... 321
Alireza Poursamad Bonab, Mahmood Hosseini
1250 EVALUATION OF PEAK AND RESIDUAL DRIFT DEMANDS IN REGULAR MULTI-STORY STEEL
FRAMES SUBJECTED TO SOFT-SOIL GROUND MOTIONS............................................................................................................ 331
Jorge Ruiz-Garcia
43 MULTI-MODE PUSHOVER ANALYSIS WITH GENERALIZED FORCE VECTORS.............................................................. 341
Haluk Sucuoglu, M. Selim Günay
1795 GEOSPATIAL-GEOTECHNICAL DATABASE OF BORING AND DENSE MICROTREMORS DATA
FOR KANAGAWA PREFECTURE, JAPAN. ........................................................................................................................................... 351
Mahmood Rahimian, Tsutomu Ochiai, Takumi Ishii, Manuel Navarro, Toshio Yamamoto, Takahisa Enomoto
SEISMIC BEHAVIOR OF RC WALL ELEMENTS AND SYSTEMS
72 SHAKING TABLE TESTS OF LOW-RISE RC WALLS WITH OPENINGS................................................................................. 361
Julian Carrillo, Sergio M. Alcocer
348 SEISMIC BEHAVIOR OF A HYBRID PRECAST CONCRETE WALL SPECIMEN: MEASURED
RESPONSE VERSUS DESIGN PREDICTIONS....................................................................................................................................... 371
Brian Smith, Yahya Kurama
746 BEHAVIOR OF HIGH-PERFORMANCE FIBER-REINFORCED CEMENTITIOUS COMPOSITE
MATERIALS FOR EARTHQUAKE-RESISTANT DESIGN ................................................................................................................. 381
Raymond Foltz, James Lafave
1141 EXPERIMENTAL DAMAGE-TRANSPORT CORRELATIONS FOR UNIAXIALLY LOADED
REINFORCED CONCRETE WALLS........................................................................................................................................................ 391
Travis Soppe, Tara Hutchinson
692 EXPERIMENTAL TESTING OF RC WALLS USING EXTENSIVE INSTRUMENTATION TO
INVESTIGATE CYCLICAL NONLINEAR WALL BEHAVIOR.......................................................................................................... 401
Christopher Hart, Kenneth Marley, Anna Birely, Daniel Kuchma
977 TESTING OF RC WALLS USING ADVANCED LOAD-CONTROL AND INSTRUMENTATION
METHODS...................................................................................................................................................................................................... 411
Kenneth Marley, Christopher Hart, Daniel Kuchma
SPECIAL SESSION: HIGHLIGHTS OF ONGOING ACTIVITIES OF NEES TOOLS FOR ISOLATION AND
PROTECTIVE SYSTEMS (TIPS) PROJECT
581 THREE DIMENSIONAL MODELING OF TRIPLE FRICTION PENDULUM ISOLATORS .................................................. 421
Tracy Becker, Stephen Mahin
1058 THE USE OF SEISMIC PERFORMANCE CLASSIFICATIONS IN THE OPTIMIZATION OF BASE
ISOLATED BUILDINGS.............................................................................................................................................................................. 431
Troy Morgan, Stephen Mahin
1561 RESULTS OF A CROSS-DISCIPLINARY SURVEY ON ISOLATION SYSTEMS DECISION MAKING ........................... 441
Lucy Arendt, Samuel Earle, Rebecca Meyers
1563 COMPARATIVE LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS OF CONVENTIONAL AND BASEISOLATED THEME
BUILDINGS.................................................................................................................................................................................................... 451
Keri Ryan, Prayag Sayani, Nhan D. Dao, Emad Abraik, Yolanda M. Baez
1582 PERFORMANCE LIMIT STATES OF SEISMICALLY ISOLATED BUIILDINGS WITH ELASTOMERIC
BEARINGS ..................................................................................................................................................................................................... 461
Jose Sanchez, Gilberto Mosqueda, Armin Masroor, Keri Ryan
1617 COMPARATIVE SEISMIC RESPONSE OF CODE DESIGNED CONVENTIONAL AND BASEISOLATED BUILDINGS TO SCENARIO EVENTS ............................................................................................................................... 471
Nhan D. Dao, Keri Ryan, Emrah Erduran, Prayag Sayani
SPECIAL SESSION: STRUCTURES IN FIRE AND EARTHQUAKE
659 PERFORMANCE OF A SIX-STORY REINFORCED CONCRETE STRUCTURES IN POSTEARTHQUAKE FIRE................................................................................................................................................................................... 481
Hossein Mostafaei, Toshimi Kabeyasawa
1291 CONSTITUTIVE MODELS OF REINFORCED CONCRETE FOR FIREDAMAGED SEISMIC
EVALUATION ............................................................................................................................................................................................... 491
Y. L. Mo, Junming Zhou, Hemant Dhonde
1298 THERMAL BEHAVIOUR OF DAMAGED REINFORCED CONCRETE IN FIRE ................................................................. 503
Adam Ervine, Martin Gillie, Tim Stratford, P. Pankaj
1778 STRUCTURAL PERFORMANCE OF LIGHT-FRAME WOOD BUILDINGS SUBJECTED TO POSTEARTHQUAKE FIRE EXPOSURE............................................................................................................................................................ 511
Ashutosh Bagchi, Mohmmad Hany Yassin, Venkatesh Kodur
1779 PERFORMANCE OF STEEL MOMENT RESISTING FRAME BUILDINGS SUBJECTED TO POSTEARTHQUAKE FIRE EXPOSURE............................................................................................................................................................ 521
Ashutosh Bagchi, Mohmmad Hany Yassin, Venkatesh Kodur
SITE AND BASIN EFFECTS
688 GROUND MOTION HAZARD EVALUATION FOR PERFORMANCE-BASED EARTHQUAKE
ENGINEERING DESIGN OF TALL BUILDINGS .................................................................................................................................. 531
Marshall Lew
1551 THE EFFECTS OF SUBSURFACE STRUCTURE ON THE CONCENTRATION OF STRUCTURAL
DAMAGE DURING THE 2007 NOTO-HANTO EARTHQUAKE......................................................................................................... 541
Toshiro Maeda, Ryo Shimizu
698 SITE-SPECIFIC RESPONSE ANALYSIS FOR DEEP SOIL BASINS........................................................................................... 551
Simon Ghanat, Edward Kavazanjian Jr.
1502 INVESTIGATION OF BASIN AND DIRECTIVITY EFFECTS IN BROADBAND SIMULATED GROUND
MOTIONS....................................................................................................................................................................................................... 561
Lisa Star, Jonathan Stewart, Robert Graves
758 THE IMPORTANCE OF GROUND-TRUTHING FOR EARTHQUAKE SITE RESPONSE..................................................... 571
John Cassidy, Marco Mucciarelli
406 ON THE CORRELATION OF SITE CLASSIFICATIONS ESTIMATED FROM SURFACE GEOLOGY,
TOPOGRAPHIC SLOPE, AND SHEAR-WAVE VELOCITY MEASUREMENTS ............................................................................ 581
B Shen-Tu, M Mahdyiar, Y Rong, K Shabestari, J Guin
SPECIAL SESSION: CANADIAN SEISMIC RESEARCH NETWORK
245 IMPACT OF RECENT DEVELOPMENTS ON PROBABLE GROUND MOTIONS FOR CANADIAN
CITIES............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 591
Gail Atkinson
1042 NETWORK FOR REDUCING CANADIAN URBAN SEISMIC RISK ........................................................................................ 601
Denis Mitchell
1260 A STUDY OF SEISMIC RISK IN SOUTHWESTERN BRITISH COLUMBIA.......................................................................... 611
W. D. L. Finn, Carlos Ventura
1511 SEISMIC UPGRADE OF EXISTING STRUCTURES WITH SUPPLEMENTAL DAMPING AND
ISOLATION SYSTEMS IN CANADA........................................................................................................................................................ 621
Constantin Christopoulos, Robert Tremblay
1594 SEISMIC MICROZONATION OF OTTAWA AND MONTRÉAL, CANADA........................................................................... 631
Dariush Motazedian, James Hunter, Myriam Belvaux, Luc Chouinard, André Pugin, M. Tremblay, Siva Sivathayalan, Didier
Perret, Ph. Rosset
DESIGN AND ASSESSMENT OF STEEL AND WOOD BUILDINGS
368 A BAYESIAN APPROACHE TO PROBABILSTIC SEISMIC DEMAND ANALYSIS OF STEEL MOMENTRESISTING FRAMES .................................................................................................................................................................................. 641
Ardeshir Deylami, Mehdi Banazadeh, Mehdi Mahdavi Adeli
383 EVALUATION OF BUILDING PERIOD FORMULAS FOR STEEL MOMENT RESISTNG FRAMES
BASED ON APPARENT BUILDING PERIODS ...................................................................................................................................... 651
Oh-Sung Kwon, Eung Soo Kim
555 ASSESSMENT OF DIFFERENT COLLAPSE MECHANISMS IN BRACED MOMENT RESISTING
FRAMES USING SYSTEM SIMULATED RELIABILITY INDEX ...................................................................................................... 661
Mehrdad Lotfollahi, Mehdi Banazadeh, Mohammad Mehdi Alinia
711 IMPROVED SEISMIC BRACED WALL REQUIREMENTS FOR CONVENTIONAL WOOD-FRAME
BUILDINGS.................................................................................................................................................................................................... 671
J. H. Rainer, Chun Ni, Erol Karacabeyli
1016 DEVELOPMENT OF CANADIAN SEISMIC DESIGN PROVISIONS FOR STEEL SHEATHED CFS
FRAMED SHEAR WALLS .......................................................................................................................................................................... 680
Colin Rogers, Nisreen Balh, Cheryl Ong-Tone, Kostadin Velchev, Cheng Yu
1519 OPTIMIZING THE BREACING PATTERN OF STEEL BUILDINGS WITH CONCENTRICALLY
BRACED FRAMES BASED ON FRAGILITY CONCEPTS................................................................................................................... 690
Mahmood Hosseini, Mahmood Majd
CONCRETE FRAME STRUCTURES
168 STUDY ON SHEAR STRENGTH OF RC BEAM-COLUMN JOINTS WITH ECCENTRIC BEAMS BY
THREE-DIMENSIONAL FEM ANALYSIS .............................................................................................................................................. 700
Hiroshi Noguchi, Takashi Kashiwazaki, Jie Hong
738 FRAGILITY FUNCTIONS FOR CONCRETE MOMENT FRAMES ............................................................................................ 710
Laura Lowes, Jingjuan Li
545 DAMAGE MEASURES FOR PERFORMANCE-BASED SEISMIC EVALUATION OF RC FRAME
STRUCTURES ............................................................................................................................................................................................... 720
Yeongae Heo, Sashi Kunnath
652 ANALYTICAL VERIFICATION OF A SIMPLIFIED REINFORCED CONCRETE JOINT MODEL.................................... 728
Burcu Burak
694 PRACTICAL LINEAR AND NONLINEAR MODELS OF REINFORCED CONCRETE BEAM-COLUMN
JOINTS IN EXISTING STRUCTURES ..................................................................................................................................................... 738
Anna Birely, Laura Lowes, Dawn Lehman
1487 AN INVESTIGATION INTO DUCTILITY DEFINITIONS FOR REINFORCED CONCRETE MEMBERS
AND FRAMES................................................................................................................................................................................................ 749
Hossein Daneshvar
LIFELINES: PIPELINES
16 SEISMIC RISK ASSESSMENT AND MITIGATION DESIGN FOR AN EXISTING LIFELINE ............................................... 760
Shuhei Wada, Toshio Imai, Takeshi Koike
98 THE CONSTRUCTION OF EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE ESTIMATION SYSTEM FOR CITY GAS SUPPLY
SYSTEM.......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 771
Masatatsu Ota, Hiroyuki Furuta
422 CONSTRUCTION OF FRAGILITY CURVE FOR WATER DISTRIBUTION PIPES BASED ON DAMAGE
DATASETS FROM RECENT EARTHQUAKES IN JAPAN.................................................................................................................. 781
Yoshihisa Maruyama, Fumio Yamazaki
857 SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF DAMAGES TO BURIED PIPES FOLLOWING THE 2007 NIIGATA-KEN
CHUETSU-OKI, JAPAN, EARTHQUAKE ............................................................................................................................................... 791
Kota Kimishima, Yoshihisa Maruyama, Fumio Yamazaki
1124 LARGE-SCALE TESTS FOR PROTECTIVE ENCLOSURE OF PIPELINE CROSSING THE HAYWARD
FAULT............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 799
Michael Palmer, Thomas O'Rourke, Harry Stewart, Nathaniel Olson
1153 RESPONSE OF BURIED POWER TRANSMISSION CABLES TO EARTHQUAKE-INDUCED
TRANSVERSE PERMANENT GROUND MOVEMENT........................................................................................................................ 809
Alireza Ahmadnia, Carlos Ventura, Dharma Wijewickreme
REPAIR AND RETROFIT OF COMPOSITE FRAMES
1165 INNOVATIVE SEISMIC RETROFIT OF TWO HIGH-RISE BUILDINGS WITH UNIQUE
CHALLENGES .............................................................................................................................................................................................. 819
Saiful Islam, Matthew Skokan, Sampson Huang
VOLUME 2
1282 SEISMIC PERFORMANCE OF CONCRETE ENCASED STEEL BUILDINGS WITH RIVETED JOINTS ....................... 829
Majid Naderi, J. W. Butterworth, G. C. Clifton
880 SEISMIC UPGRADING OF DEFICIENT REINFORCED CONCRETE FRAMES WITH INTERNAL
STEEL FRAME.............................................................................................................................................................................................. 839
Ramazan Ozcelik, Baris Binici
1232 HYBRID TESTING OF STEEL MOMENT RESISTING FRAME RETROFITTED WITH HIGH
PERFORMANCE FIBER REINFORCED CONCRETE INFILL PANELS ......................................................................................... 850
Dimitrios Lignos, Sarah Billington
657 REPAIR AND RETROFIT OF NON-DUCTILE REINFORCED CONCRETE FRAMES ......................................................... 860
Dan Palermo, Frederic Caron
743 SEISMIC RELIABILITY OF TWO TWENTY-FOUR STORY BRACED BUILDINGS: EVALUATION AND
COMPARISON PART I................................................................................................................................................................................ 870
M. A. Montiel, A. Teran-Gilmore
SEISMIC BEHAVIOR AND ANALYSIS OF STRUCTURES
1133 EFFECTS OF GROUND MOTION SCALING ON NONLINEAR HIGHER MODE BUILDING
RESPONSE ..................................................................................................................................................................................................... 880
Richard Wood, Tara Hutchinson
1143 ESTIMATING BASE SHEAR VERSUS ROOF DRIFT CURVES USING EARTHQUAKE-RESPONSE
DATA ............................................................................................................................................................................................................... 890
Bismarck Luna, Ayhan Irfanoglu
931 RETRROFIT OF SEMI-RIGID KHORJINEE CONNECTIONS WITH HORIZONTAL PLATES.......................................... 900
Behnam Heydari, Ardeshir Deylami
719 EFFECT OF TANK PARAMETERS ON RESPONSE OF CONCRETE RECTANGULAR LIQUID
STORAGE TANKS........................................................................................................................................................................................ 910
J. Z. Chen, M. R. Kianoush
300 SEISMIC MITIGATION OF BUILDING STRUCTURAL SYSTEMS USING PASSIVE DAMPERS...................................... 920
David Thambiratnam
1424 AN EVALUATION OF INELASTIC RESPONSES OF HYSTERETIC SYSTEMS UNDER
BIDIRECTIONAL SEISMIC EXCITATIONS.......................................................................................................................................... 930
C. S. Lee, Hanping Hong
SPECIAL SESSION: SCHOOL RETROFIT PROGRAM
1670 PERFORMANCE-BASED APPROACH FOR SEISMIC RETROFIT OF SCHOOLS IN BRITISH
COLUMBIA.................................................................................................................................................................................................... 940
Carlos Ventura, Graham Taylor, Liam Finn, Freddy Pina
1193 SEISMIC RISK ASSESSMENT TOOL FOR SEISMIC MITIGATION OF SCHOOLS IN BRITISH
COLUMBIA.................................................................................................................................................................................................... 950
Graham Taylor, Freddy Pina, Carlos Ventura, Liam Finn
1624 SELECTION OF GROUND MOTIONS FOR THE SEISMIC RISK ASSESSMENT OF SCHOOLS IN
BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA .............................................................................................................................................................. 958
Freddy Pina, Graham Taylor, Carlos Ventura, Liam Finn
1154 SITE RESPONSE ANALYSIS FOR THE SEISMIC RISK ASSESSMENT OF SCHOOLS IN BRITISH
COLUMBIA, CANADA ................................................................................................................................................................................ 968
Freddy Pina, Graham Taylor, Carlos Ventura, Liam Finn
1047 THE BC SCHOOL SEISMIC RETROFIT PROGRAM - LESSON LEARNT AND APPLICATION OF
INNOVATIONS ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 978
Bishnu Pandey, Carlos Ventura
1676 SEISMIC RETROFIT STRATEGIES FOR HISTORICAL CLAY BRICK MASONRY SCHOOL
BUILDINGS; BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA ..................................................................................................................................... 988
John Sherstobitoff, Graham Taylor, J. Shuttleworth
ANALYSIS AND TESTING OF ISOLATORS
407 STIFFNESS ANALYSIS OF FIBER-REINFORCED RUBBER ISOLATORS UNDER COMPRESSIVE
LOADS: A FINITE ELEMENT APPROACH ........................................................................................................................................... 998
Hamid Toopchi-Nezhad, Michael J. Tait, Robert G. Drysdale
137 NUMERICAL STUDY ON THE STABILITY OF ELASTOMERIC SEISMIC ISOLATION BEARINGS............................ 1008
Gordon Warn, Jared Weisman
177 USING ORTHOGONAL PAIRS OF RODS ON CONCAVE BEDS (OPRCB) AS A BASE ISOLATION
DEVICE – PART (I): ANALYTICAL, EXPERIMENTAL AND NUMERICAL STUDIES OF OPRCB
ISOLATORS................................................................................................................................................................................................. 1018
Mahmood Hosseini, Amirhossein Soroor, Zohreh Bayat
285 SEISMIC RESPONSE EVALUATION FOR ISOLATED AND NON-ISOLATED BUILDINGS
CONSIDERING POUNDING .................................................................................................................................................................... 1028
Sayed Mahmoud, Robert Jankowski
1028 DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW BASE ISOLATION SYSTEM FOR SEISMIC ISOLATION OF STEEL
PALLET STORAGE RACKS .................................................................................................................................................................... 1040
Robert Michael, Jim Courtwright, Ernie Ferro, Andre Filiatrault, Peter Higgins, Assawin Wanitkorkul
28 PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS TO UNDERGROUND STATION DESIGN - AN ENGINEER'S APPROACH............................ 1050
Jianzhong Gu, Vanessa Wong, C. C. Yao, Robert Neville
SPECIAL SESSION: STRUCTURES IN FIRE AND EARTHQUAKE PANEL
1130 STRUCTURES IN FIRE AND EARTHQUAKE ............................................................................................................................ 1056
Solomon Tesfamariam
ON THE BASIS FOR GROUND MOTION PREDICTION EQUATIONS (GMPES)
219 ASSESSING THE EPISTEMIC UNCERTAINTY OF GROUND-MOTION PREDICTIONS.................................................. 1059
John Douglas
1122 GEOMETRIC ATTENUATION FUNCTIONS FOR RESPONSE SPECTRA ACCOUNTING FOR
SEISMOLOGICAL PARAMETERS ........................................................................................................................................................ 1069
John Zhao
1226 SPATIAL CORRELATION BETWEEN SPECTRAL ACCELERATIONS USING SIMULATED
GROUND-MOTION TIME HISTORIES................................................................................................................................................. 1079
Nirmal Jayaram, Jaesung Park, Paolo Bazzurro, Polsak Tothong
1127 CORRELATION IN SPECTRAL ACCELERATIONS OF EUROPEAN GROUND MOTION RECORDS ........................ 1089
Gian Paolo Cimellaro, Alessandro De Stefano
1497 CHARACTERIZING SPATIAL CROSS-CORRELATION BETWEEN GROUNDMOTION SPECTRAL
ACCELERATIONS AT MULTIPLE PERIODS ..................................................................................................................................... 1099
Jack Baker, Nirmal Jayaram
958 AN OVERVIEW ON THE NUMERICAL/ANALYTICAL METHODS OF SITE RESPONSE ANALYSIS
FOR THE CITY OF OTTAWA, CANADA.............................................................................................................................................. 1106
Kasgin Khaheshi Banab, Dariush Motazedian, Siva Sivathayalan
SPECIAL SESSION: THE FUTURE OF THE GEORGE E. BROWN, JR. NETWORK FOR EARTHQUAKE
ENGINEERING SIMULATION (NEES)
1831 NEES ACADEMY: AN EDUCATIONAL CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE EARTHQUAKE
ENGINEERING COMMUNITY................................................................................................................................................................ 1116
Thalia Anagnos, Sean Brophy
1780 INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION – NETWORKING THE EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING
RESEARCH COMMUNITY INTO A GLOBAL FRAMEWORK........................................................................................................ 1122
Julio Ramirez
1832 2020 VISION FOR EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING RESEARCH .......................................................................................... 1129
Shirley Dyke, Pedro Arduino, Maria Garlock, Nicolas Luco, Julio Ramirez, Solomon Yim, B. Stojadinovic
1833 NEES RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS: 2004-2009 .............................................................................................................................. 1137
Ian Buckle, Julio Ramirez
1835 NEES CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE: A FOUNDATION FOR INNOVATIVE RESEARCH AND
EDUCATION................................................................................................................................................................................................ 1147
Rudolf Eigenmann, Thomas Hacker, Ellen Rathje
1827 DEVELOPING THE ‘PEOPLES’ RESILIENCE FRAMEWORK FOR DEFINING AND MEASURING
DISASTER RESILIENCE AT THE COMMUNITY SCALE ................................................................................................................ 1152
Chris S. Renschler, Amy E. Frazier, Lucy A. Arendt, Gian P. Cimellaro, A. M. Reinhorn, M. Bruneau
PERFORMANCE-BASED AND DISPLACEMENT-BASED DESIGN
185 A CRITICAL EVALUATION OF PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT PROCEDURES IN THE LIGHT OF
FIELD DATA................................................................................................................................................................................................ 1162
Abdullah Dilsiz
994 DISPLACEMENT-BASED SEISMIC DESIGN OF STEEL PLATE SHEAR WALL SYSTEMS WITH
RIGID-CONNECTED BEAMS.................................................................................................................................................................. 1172
Swapnil B. Kharmale, Siddhartha Ghosh
1097 EVALUATION OF PERFORMANCE-BASED ANALYSIS AND DESIGN METHODS FOR
ASYMMETRICAL SHEAR WALL BUILDINGS .................................................................................................................................. 1182
Rami Eid, Agha Hasan
1018 CODES OF ASSESSMENT OF BUILDINGS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY............................................................................. 1192
Stavroula Pantazopoulou, Stamatina Chassioti, Despina Syntzirma
67 PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF TALL STEEL STRUCTURES WITH DUAL SYSTEM IN NEARFIELD GROUND MOTIONS COMPARING WITH FAR-FIELD GROUND GROUND MOTIONS
CONSIDERING FEMA 356 PROVISIONS ............................................................................................................................................. 1202
Y. Ahmad Pahlavan, Fatemeh Hamidipour, Mohsen Tehranizadeh
CONCRETE COLUMNS
546 SIMULATING BAR-BUCKLING IN RC COLUMNS UNDER SEISMIC LOADS.................................................................... 1212
Zhiyu Zong, Sashi Kunnath
312 SEISMIC BEHAVIOR OF CIRCULAR CONFINED CONCRETE COLUMNS........................................................................ 1220
Shamim Sheikh, J. Liu
1060 MODELING THE DEGRADING SHEAR BEHAVIOR OF REINFORCED CONCRETE COLUMNS
LEADING TO COLLAPSE ........................................................................................................................................................................ 1230
Matthew Leborgne, Wassim Ghannoum
1079 REINFORCED CONCRETE COLUMNS SUBJECTED TO LATERAL LOADS ................................................................... 1240
Halil Sezen, M. S. Lodhi
1126 USE OF STEEL BELTED AUTOMOBILE TIRES AS TRANSVERSE COLUMN REINFORCEMENT
FOR IMPROVED SEISMIC PERFORMANCE ..................................................................................................................................... 1250
Murat Saatcioglu, Adel Bugaldian
1172 DYNAMIC COLLAPSE OF REINFORCED CONCRETE COLUMNS .................................................................................... 1260
Chiun-Lin Wu, Yuan-Sen Yang, Shyh-Jiann Hwang, Chin-Hsiung Loh
SPECIAL SESSION: SEISMIC ENGINEERING OF CONTROLLED-ROCKING SYSTEMS FOR STEEL
FRAMED STRUCTURES
734 HYBRID SIMULATION TESTING OF A CONTROLLED ROCKING STEEL BRACED FRAME SYSTEM .................... 1270
Matthew Eatherton, Jerome Hajjar, Gregory Deierlein, Xiang Ma, Helmut Krawinkler
1330 SEISMIC PERFORMANCE OF A SELF-CENTERING ROCKING CONCENTRICALLY-BRACED
FRAME.......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 1280
Richard Sause, James Ricles, David Roke, N. Brent Chancellor, Nathan Gonner
1400 DESIGN EXAMPLES USING MODE SHAPING SPINES FOR FRAME AND WALL BUILDINGS .................................. 1290
David Mar
1492 EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATIONS AND DESIGN OF SELF-CENTERING ENERGY DISSIPATIVE
(SCED) BRACING SYSTEMS ................................................................................................................................................................... 1300
Constantin Christopoulos, Robert Tremblay, Jeff Erochko, Hyungjoon Kim
1526 DEVELOPMENT OF SELF-CENTERING STEEL MOMENT-RESISTING FRAMES FOR DAMAGEFREE SEISMIC RESISTANT BUILDINGS ............................................................................................................................................ 1310
James Ricles, Constantin Christopoulos, Richard Sause, Maria Garlock
NEW AND DIFFERENT RETROFIT TECHNIQUES
395 SELECTIVE WEAKENING RETROFIT FOR EXISTING R.C. STRUCTURES – CONCEPT,
VALIDATION AND DESIGN EXAMPLE............................................................................................................................................... 1320
Weng Y Kam, Stefano Pampanin, Des Bull
489 EFFECT OF EARTHQUAKE-PROOF REINFORCEMENT BY GROUND ANCHOR AND DAMPER ON
AN EXISTING BRIDGE WITH HIGH PIER.......................................................................................................................................... 1332
Tongxiang An, Osamu Kiyomiya, Tran Viet Hung
647 PROOF OF CONCEPT TESTING OF NARROW STEEL PLATE SHEAR WALL WITH TENSION
BRACING FOR RAPID SEISMIC REAHABILITATION.................................................................................................................... 1342
Masahiro Kurata, Roberto T. Leon, Reginald Desroches, Masayoshi Nakashima
1111 SEISMIC RETROFIT OF A CITY HALL USING BUCKLING RESTRAINED BRACES BASED ON
NONLINEAR ANALYSES INCLUDING SOILSTRUCTURE INTERACTION ............................................................................... 1352
Matthew Skokan, Sampson Huang, Saiful Islam, Metin Oguzmert
364 EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF TWO NOVEL FRP RETROFIT SCHEMES FOR
STRENGTHENING STEEL COLUMNS ................................................................................................................................................. 1361
Kian Karimi, Michael Tait, Wael El-Dakhakhni
1088 COMPARISONS OF DIFFERENT RETROFIT TECHNIQUES WITH PSEUDO DYNAMIC TESTING .......................... 1371
Guney Ozcebe, Baris Binici, Ozgur Kurc, Efe Kurt, Erdem Canbay
SEISMIC RESPONSE OF WOOD BUILDINGS
69 TWO-DIMENSIONAL SEISMIC ANALYSIS OF MULTI-STORY LIGHT-FRAME WOOD BUILDINGS .......................... 1381
Andre Filiatrault, Ioannis P. Christovasilis
157 SEISMIC VULNERABILITY INDICATORS FOR TIMBER ROOF STRUCTURES............................................................... 1391
Maria A. Parisi, Claudio Chesi, Chiara Tardini
873 EVALUATION OF SHEAR RESISTANT PERFORMANCE OF MUDPLASTERED WALLS ALL OVER
JAPAN ........................................................................................................................................................................................................... 1401
Masato Nakao, Yutaka Yamazaki
951 DISPLACEMENT-BASED DESIGN OF SEISMICALLY-ISOLATED WOODFRAMED STRUCTURES ........................... 1411
Michael Symans, Jayesh Shinde, John Van De Lindt
1537 IN-PLANE BEHAVIOR OF FULL-SCALE DHAJII WALLS (WOODEN BRACED FRAME WITH
STONE INFILL) UNDER QUASISTATIC LOADING .......................................................................................................................... 1421
Qaisar Ali, Tom Schacher, Muhammad Ashraf, Akhtar Naeem, Bashir Alam
1508 SEISMIC RESPONSE CONTROL OF WOODEN HOUSE PLACED ON SLIDING BASE................................................... 1429
Satsuya Soda, Yuji Miyazu
CASE STUDIES IN SEISMIC RESPONSE
1445 INVESTIGATING THE SEISMIC BEHAVIOUR OF SPLIT-LEVEL BUILDING STRUCTURES..................................... 1437
Vahid Khonsari, George England, Maysam Kiani
1819 ASSESSING A REAL 3D TURKISH RC BUILDING USING NONLINEAR STATIC PROCEDURES............................... 1447
Carlos Bhatt, Rita Bento, Rui Pinho
979 EVALUATION OF THE LEVEL OF SEISMIC PROTECTION OF AN 85-STOREY CONCRETE SHEAR
WALL BUILDING....................................................................................................................................................................................... 1457
Amir Poshnejad, Reza Kianoush, Jamil Mardukhi
1285 EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF SEISMIC STABILITY OF POWER PLANTS IN CANADA............................. 1467
Lidija Krstevska, Ljubomir Tashkov, Mihail Garevski, Vladimir Gocevski
752 THREE-DIMENSIONAL STIFFNESS DEGRADATION MODEL FOR PROGRESSIVE COLLAPSE
ANALYSIS OF BRIDGES .......................................................................................................................................................................... 1476
Silvena Reshotkina, Vietanh Phung, David Lau
1027 PERFORMANCE OF AN 18-STORY COUPLED WALL SYSTEM WITH HIGH PERFORMANCE FIBER
REINFORCED CEMETITIOUS COMPOSITE (HPFRCC) COUPLING BEAMS ........................................................................... 1486
C. C. Hung, S. El-Tawil
SPECIAL SESSION: SEISMIC SCHOOL SAFETY – HOW TO REDUCE THE THREAT?
1791 SEISMIC DESIGN OF SCHOOL BUILDINGS IN COLORADO AND OTHER LOW TO MODERATE
HAZARD AREAS: IS THE INTERNATIONAL BUILDING CODE ADEQUATE? ......................................................................... 1496
Rob Jackson
1816 OREGON'S SEISMIC MITIGATION GRANT PROGRAM: AKA COURTNEY GRANT.................................................... 1506
Yumei Wang
1818 PERFORMANCE OF TEMPLATE SCHOOL BUILDINGS IN TURKEY AND PERU DURING
EARTHQUAKES ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 1516
Ayhan Irfanoglu
1828 PANEL ON SEISMIC SAFETY OF SCHOOLS ............................................................................................................................ 1526
Jim Alkins
1829 PANEL ON SEISMIC SAFETY OF SCHOOLS ............................................................................................................................ 1531
Gary McGavin
1830 PANEL ON SEISMIC SAFETY OF SCHOOLS ............................................................................................................................ 1538
Janiele Maffei
FULL-SCALE LABORATORY AND FIELD TESTS
152 SHAKE TABLE TESTING OF A SEVEN-STORY MIXED USE CONDOMINIUM AT JAPAN'S EDEFENSE...................................................................................................................................................................................................... 1541
John Van De Lindt, Shiling Pei, Steven Pryor
399 CYCLIC LATERAL LOAD TEST TO FAILURE OF A FULL-SCALE THREESTORY FLAT-PLATE
REINFORCED CONCRETE STRUCTURE ........................................................................................................................................... 1551
Damon Fick
733 INTERACTION BETWEEN STRUCTURAL FRAME AND WALL CLADDING IN A SHAKE TABLE
TEST OF A FULL SCALE FOUR STOREY BUILDING...................................................................................................................... 1561
Jose Centeno, Carlos Ventura, Otton Lara
759 FULL SCALE DYNAMIC RESPONSE OF A RC BUILDING UNDER LOW-TO-MODERATE SEISMIC
MOTIONS..................................................................................................................................................................................................... 1571
Philippe Gueguen, Clotaire Michel
764 ANALYSIS OF SMALL FREQUENCY VARIATIONS IN TWO TWIN TOWERS USING AMBIENT
VIBRATIONS............................................................................................................................................................................................... 1581
Ali Mikael, Philippe Gueguen, Philippe Roux, Pierre-Yves Bard
1187 DYNAMIC BEHAVIOR OF HACHINOHE CITY HALL BUILDINGS EXAMINED BASED ON STRONGMOTION DATA........................................................................................................................................................................................... 1590
Toshihide Kashima
NEW BEHAVIOR MODES FOR ISOLATED SYSTEMS
483 PERFORMANCE OF ROCKING CORE WALLS IN TALL BUILDINGS UNDER SEVERE SEISMIC
DISPLACEMENTS...................................................................................................................................................................................... 1600
Gregory M. Nielsen, Ibrahim Almufti, Stephen A. Mahin, Michael R. Willford
1173 UPLIFT IN BASE-ISOLATED BUILDINGS WITH FRICTION PENDULUM BEARINGS ................................................. 1610
Francisco Parisi, William Holmes, Thomas Lauck
1065 THREE-DIMENSIONAL NONLINEAR DYNAMIC ANALYSIS OF MULTI-BASE SEISMICALLY
ISOLATED STRUCTURES WITH UPLIFT POTENTIAL .................................................................................................................. 1620
Panayiotis Roussis, Panagiotis Tsopelas, Michael Constantinou
1119 SEISMIC ISOLATION USING SINGLE AND DUAL SHEAR HINGING OF TALL CANTILEVER WALL
BUILDINGS SUBJECTED TO STRONG GROUND SHAKING ......................................................................................................... 1630
Marios Panagiotou, Vladimir Calugaru
927 SIMPLIFIED SEISMIC ANALYSIS AND EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES ON BUILDINGS WITH MIDSTORY ISOLATION SYSTEM ................................................................................................................................................................. 1640
Shiang-Jung Wang, Kuo-Chun Chang, Jenn-Shin Hwang, Bo-Han Lee
1386 A STUDY ON THE POSSIBILITY OF ROOF ISOLATION AS A TECHNIQUE FOR UPGRADING THE
SEISMIC BEHAVIOR OF MASONRY BUILDINGS ............................................................................................................................ 1651
Saeed Yousefi, Mahmood Hosseini
GROUND MOTION, SEISMICITY, AND SEISMIC RISK
378 CUMULATIVE SPECTRAL ACCELERATION-SPECTRAL DISPLACEMENT INTENSITY MEASURES
OF GROUND MOTION INTENSITY ...................................................................................................................................................... 1661
Arzhang Alimoradi, Erol Kalkan
VOLUME 3
702 RESERVOIR-TRIGGERED SEISMICITY IN THE CANADIAN SHIELD................................................................................ 1671
Maurice Lamontagne, Dan Manescu
491 IMPACT OF VARIOUS SITE CONDITIONS AND SHALLOW SITE RESPONSE CALCULATION
DIFFERENCES ON LOSS ANALYSIS FOR THE 1812 NEW MADRID TYPE EARTHQUAKES ............................................... 1681
Khosrow Shabestari, Mehrdad Mahdyiar, Bingming Shen-Tu, Yufang Rong, Jayanta Guin
566 A METHODOLOGY FOR CONSTRUCTING SEISMIC FRAGILITIES BASED ON EXPERIMENTS AND
MECHANICAL MODELS ......................................................................................................................................................................... 1691
Mircea Grigoriu, A. Gupta, T. Hutchinson, A. Reinhorn, R. Wood
966 REGIONAL RISK ASSESSMENT FOR SEISMIC DESIGN ALTERNATIVES – THE CASE OF MEMPHIS,
TENNESSEE................................................................................................................................................................................................. 1699
Hyeuk Ryu, Erdem Karaca, Nicolas Luco, Troy Milburn
1043 GROUND MOTION PREDICTION EQUATION FOR YIELD STRENGTH AND INELASTIC
DISPLACEMENT SPECTRA .................................................................................................................................................................... 1709
Yousef Bozorgnia, Mahmoud Hachem, Kenneth Campbell
SEISMIC ISOLATION OF BRIDGES
319 VARIABLE-FREQUENCY ROCKING BEARING FOR NEAR-FAULT SEISMIC ISOLATION ......................................... 1715
Lyan-Ywan Lu, I-Ling Yeh, Hsun Chang, Shih-Wei Yeh, Tzu-Ying Lee
1697 SEMI-ACTIVE CONTROL OF THE SEISMIC RESPONSE OF BUILDING FRAMES USING FUZZY
CONTROL .................................................................................................................................................................................................... 1725
Hamid Moharami, Karim Kazemi Bidokhti, Amir Fayezi
777 BRIDGE-ABUTMENT-BACKFILL DYNAMIC INTERACTION MODELING BASED ON FULL SCALE
TESTS............................................................................................................................................................................................................ 1736
Ahmed Elgamal, Patrick Wilson
950 TWO-DIMENSIONAL NONLINEAR SEISMIC ANALYSIS OF SOIL-WELL-PIER SYSTEM
CONSIDERING SOIL NONLINEARITY ................................................................................................................................................ 1746
Goutam Mondal, Sudhir Jain
173 A SIMPLE SOFTWARE FOR THE PRELIMINARY DESIGN OF SEISMICALLY ISOLATED R/C
HIGHWAY OVERPASS BRIDGES.......................................................................................................................................................... 1756
George Manos, Anastasios Sextos, Stergios Mitoulis, Martha Geraki
866 DYNAMIC ANALYSIS OF SEISMIC-EXCITED ISOLATED BRIDGES IN THE ULTIMATE STATE .............................. 1766
Tzu-Ying Lee, Pak-Leng Wong, Ren-Zuo Wang
VARIED ASPECTS OF SEISMIC STRUCTURAL RESPONSE AND BEHAVIOR
124 STRUCTURAL IRREGULARITIES AND BUILDING CODES ................................................................................................... 1775
Babak Baradaran-Seyed
363 NONLINEAR MODAL ANALYSIS AND SUPERPOSITION ....................................................................................................... 1785
Kevin K. F. Wong, John L. Harris
668 SENSITIVITY OF NBCC 2005 BASE SHEAR TO THE FUNDAMENTAL PERIOD............................................................... 1795
Damien Gilles, Ghyslaine McClure
795 SEAOC’S EARTHQUAKE PERFORMANCE EVALUATION PROGRAM .............................................................................. 1805
David McCormick, Fred Turner, Joseph Valancius, Anthony Court
954 GUIDELINES FOR SEISMIC DESIGN OF TALL BUILDINGS.................................................................................................. 1815
Ronald Hamburger, Jack Moehle
1820 A STUDY OF SEISMIC RESPONSE OF A BUILDING DESIGNED FOR INTERMEDIATE SEISMIC
HAZARD ....................................................................................................................................................................................................... 1825
Carlos Arteta, Jack Moehle
RESPONSE OF CONCRETE STRUCTURES 1
246 SEISMIC DESIGN OF A MAJOR PRECAST CONCRETE STRUCTURE IN THE NEW MADRID
SEISMIC ZONE ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 1835
James Beavers, Taha Al-Shawaf
369 A DETAILED EVALUATION ON DEGRADING BEHAVIOR OF STRUCTURAL SYSTEMS ............................................ 1845
Murat Altug Erberik, Burak Kurtman
435 CYCLIC BEHAVIOR OF MECHANICALLY SPLICED SHAPE MEMORY ALLOY AND STEEL BARS ........................ 1855
M. Shahria Alam, Maged A. Youssef, Moncef Nehdi
583 SEISMIC PERFORMANCE OF REINFORCED CONCRETE FRAME STRUCTURES WITH AND
WITHOUT MASONRY INFILL WALLS................................................................................................................................................ 1864
Abbie Liel, Siamak Sattar
681 CORRELATION BETWEEN STRENGTH AND STIFFNESS OF REINFORCED CONCRETE ELEMENTS
AND ITS IMPLICATIONS ON DISPLACEMENT BASED SEISMIC DESIGN OF BUILDINGS................................................. 1874
A. Gustavo Ayala, Hugo Castellanos, José Barradas
756 USE OF DAMAGE MECHANICS IN PERFORMANCE BASED DESIGN (PBD) .................................................................... 1884
Patrick Paultre, Luis Ignacio Cardona, Jacky Mazars
SPECIAL SESSION: LARGE-SCALE TESTING OF STEEL FRAME STRUCTURES
102 CYCLIC RESPONSE OF THREE-STORY FULL-SCALE CONCENTRICALLY BRACED FRAME
SYSTEM........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 1894
Dawn Lehman, Eric Lumpkin, Po-Chien Hsiao, Charles Roeder, Kehchyuan Tsai, An-Chieh Wu, Chih-Yu W
781 EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF TOMORROW'S STEEL BRACED FRAMES IN BUILDING STRUCTURES.................... 1904
Jiun-Wei Lai, Stephen A. Mahin
1248 LARGE-SCALE SHAKING TABLE TEST OF STEEL BRACED FRAME WITH CONTROLLED
ROCKING AND ENERGY DISSIPATING FUSES................................................................................................................................ 1914
Greg Deierlein, Xiang Ma, Matthew Eatherton, Jerome Hajjar, Helmut Krawinkler, Toru Takeuchi, Mitsumasu Midorikawa,
Tsuyoshi Hikino
1292 FULL-SCALE E-DEFENSE SHAKE TABLE TESTS ON 5-STORY STEEL BUILDING WITH VARIOUS
DAMPERS .................................................................................................................................................................................................... 1924
Kazuhiko Kasai, Yoji Ooki, Hiroshi Ito, Shojiro Motoyui, Masato Ishii, Hitoshi Ozaki, Tsuyoshi Hikino, Koichi Kajiwara
1294 SEISMIC COLLAPSE TEST OF A FULL-SCALE 4-STORY STEEL FRAME: PART 1 - TEST RESULTS ..................... 1934
Keiichiro Suita, Satoshi Yamada, Motohide Tada, Kazuhiko Kasai, Yuuichi Matsuoka, Yuko Shimada
1740 DYNAMIC PROPERTY EVALUATIONS OF FULL-SCALE 4-STORY STEEL FRAME USING
PARALLEL FE-ANALYSIS ...................................................................................................................................................................... 1944
Masayuki Kohiyama, Makoto Ohsaki, Tomoshi Miyamura, Daigoro Isobe, Hiroshi Akiba, Muneo Hori, Koichi Kajiwara, T. Ine, K.
Onda
PIPELINES, WHARFS, AND OFF-SHORE STRUCTURES
607 PROBABILISTIC DEMAND MODEL AND FRAGILITY ESTIMATES FOR CRITICAL FAILURE
MODES OF UN-ANCHORED STEEL STORAGE TANKS.................................................................................................................. 1953
Farhad Behnamfar, Farshad Berahman
980 WATER SUPPLY SYSTEM DECISIONS FOR EARTHQUAKES............................................................................................... 1963
Thomas O'Rourke, Natalia Romero, Michael Palmer, Amanda Bonneau
1073 DESIGN OF INTERDEPENDENT INTERFACES FOR LIFELINE SYSTEMS USING RESPONSE
SURFACE INVERSE RELIABILITY METHODS................................................................................................................................. 1973
Xing Min, Leonardo Duenas-Osorio
1132 IMPROVED PILE-TO-WHARF CONNECTIONS TO REDUCE SEISMIC DAMAGE OF WHARFS................................ 1983
Dawn Lehman, Charles Roeder, Amanda Jellin, Emily Brackmann
970 STRUCTURAL CONCRETE PILE-WHARF CONNECTIONS UNDER CYCLIC LATERAL LOADING .......................... 1993
Pablo Caiza, Bassem Andrawes, James Lafave
119 REGIONAL ESTIMATION OF SITE EFFECTS IN A COASTRAL URBAN AREA USING A GIS
FRAMEWORK ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 2003
Chang-Guk Sun, Sung-Ho Chun, Jin-Soo Shin, Hee-Il Lee
RETROFIT OF HISTORIC BUILDINGS AND MASONRY
593 SEISMIC REHABILITATION OF REINFORCED MASONRY COLUMNS USING CFRP WRAPS.................................... 2013
Nima Farnia, Khaled Galal, Oscar Pekau
1540 EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON THE PERFORMANCE OF BRICK MASONRY PIERS BEFORE AND
AFTER RETROFITTING WITH REINFORCED PLASTER .............................................................................................................. 2024
Mohammad Ashraf, Qaisar Ali, Akhtar Naeem Khan, Bashir Alam, Amjad Naseer
565 SEISMIC EVALUATION AND RETROFIT OF A 7TH CENTURY HISTORIC BRICK MASONRY DOME
IN SEMNAN ................................................................................................................................................................................................. 2034
Alireza Mortezaei, Mehdi Zahrai
1733 SEISMIC STRENGTHENING OF MASONRY INFILLED REINFORCED CONCRETE FRAMES WITH
STEEL FIBER REINFORCEMENT......................................................................................................................................................... 2044
Erdem Canbay, Tugce Sevil
186 ANALYTICAL INVESTIGATION OF EFFECT OF RETROFIT APPLICATION USING CFRP ON
SEISMIC BEHAVIOR OF A MONUMENTAL BUILDING AT HISTORICAL CAPPADOCIA REGION OF
TURKEY ....................................................................................................................................................................................................... 2055
Baki Ozturk, Taner Senturk, Can Yilmaz
1553 OPTIMUM PATTERN OF FRP FOR STENGTHENING MASONRY WALLS ...................................................................... 2065
A. Khaffaf, F. Arbabi
SEISMIC ANALYSIS AND SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION
1442 A CRITICAL REVIEW OF NUMERICALLY PREDICTED ACCELERATIONS IN NONLINEAR
HYSTERETIC SYSTEMS .......................................................................................................................................................................... 2075
Lydell Wiebe, Constantin Christopoulos
1274 DECENTRALIZED DAMAGE DETECTION IN A PLANAR FRAME .................................................................................... 2086
Manuel Ruiz-Sandoval, Cesar Carpio
454 DISTRIBUTED MASS EFFECTS IN BUILDING POUNDING ANALYSES.............................................................................. 2096
Gregory Cole, Rajesh Dhakal, Athol Carr, Desmond Bull
290 A MULTISCALE APPROACH TO MODELING DAMPING IN STRUCTURES ..................................................................... 2106
Adam Bowland, Finley Charney, Cris Moen, Jordan Jarrett
1324 DYNAMIC BEHAVIOUR OF CONCRETE LIQUID TANKS UNDER HORIZONTAL AND VERTICAL
GROUND MOTIONS USING FINITE ELEMENT METHOD............................................................................................................. 2116
Mehdi Moslemi, Amirreza Ghaemmaghami, Reza Kianoush
1373 TELE-OPERATION SHAKE TABLE EXPERIMENTS IN EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING FOR
UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION ......................................................................................................................................................... 2125
Shirley Dyke, Richard Christenson, Sandy Courter
SPECIAL SESSION: APPROPRIATE BUILDING TECHNOLOGIES FOR REDUCING SEISMIC RISK IN
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES (PANEL)
1414 SHAKE TABLE TESTS ON TYPICAL STONE MASONRY BUILDINGS USED IN THE HIMALAYAN
BELT.............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 2134
Qaisar Ali, Akhtar Naeem Khan, Muhammad Ashraf, Awais Ahmad, Bashir Alam, Muhammad Fahim, Shahzad Rahman
1428 CONFINED MASONRY: A CASE OF SUCCESS FOR REDUCING SEISMIC RISK............................................................ 2144
Sergio Alcocer
1627 NON-DUCTILE REINFORCED CONCRETE FRAME CONSTRUCTION AND ALTERNATIVE
BUILDING TECHNOLOGIES FOR REGIONS OF HIGH SEISMIC RISK ..................................................................................... 2147
Svetlana Brzev
1689 NICEE'S ROLE IN PROMOTING CONFINED MASONRY AS AN APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY FOR
BUILDING CONSTRUCTION IN INDIA................................................................................................................................................ 2153
Durgesh Rai, Sudhir Jain
1690 SHEAR AND OUT OF PLANE BENDING STRENGTH OF REINFORCED ADOBE WALLS ........................................... 2157
Daniel Torrealva
1612 STRAWBALE CONSTRUCTION: AN APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGY FOR COUNTRIES WITH HIGH
SEISMIC RISK ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 2159
Martin Hammer, Dmitry Ozeryansky
INELASTIC BEHAVIOR OF COMPONENTS AND SUBASSEMBLAGES
996 CYCLIC RESPONSE OF CONCRETE COLUMNS REINFORCED WITH HIGH-STRENGTH STEEL ............................ 2169
Jeffrey Rautenberg, Santiago Pujol, Hooman Tavallali, Andres Lepage
216 RESIDUAL STRENGTH AND DEFORMATION CHARACTERISTICS OF CONFINED CONCRETE
SUBJECTED TO ELEVATED TEMPERATURES ................................................................................................................................ 2178
Umesh Sharma, Kaleem Zaidi, Pradeep Bhargava, N. M. Bhandari
922 INFLUENCE OF SLAB ON THE SEISMIC RESPONSE OF SUB-STANDARD DETAILED EXTERIOR
REINFORCED CONCRETE BEAM COLUMN JOINTS ..................................................................................................................... 2188
Patricio Quintana Gallo, Weng Y Kam, Umut Akguzel, Stefano Pampanin
982 BEHAVIOR OF A SMA-BASED PARTIALLY RESTRAINED BEAM-COLUMN CONNECTION ...................................... 2199
Matthew Speicher, Reginald Desroches, Roberto T. Leon
448 IN-PLANE MONOTONIC AND CYCLIC TESTING OF STEEL ROOF DECK DIAPHRAGMS WITH
NAILED AND WELDED CONNECTIONS ............................................................................................................................................. 2209
Mehrtash Motamedi, Carlos E. Ventura
424 THREE-DIMENSIONAL TESTS OF A TWO-STORY, ONE-BAY BY ONE-BAY, STEEL BRACES
FRAMES: SPECIMEN DESIGN ............................................................................................................................................................... 2219
Keith Palmer, Taichiro Okazaki, Charles Roeder, Dawn Lehman
SEISMIC RISK AND ASSESSMENT
116 AN EXAMPLE OF REGIONAL SEISMIC RISK ASSESSMENT WITH RELIABILITY ANALYSIS AND
PROBABILISTIC MODELS...................................................................................................................................................................... 2229
Mojtaba Mahsuli, Terje Haukaas, Carlos Ventura
375 QUANTITATIVE SEISMIC RISK ASSESSMENT OF WOOD-FRAME BUILDINGS IN RICHMOND,
BRITISH COLUMBIA................................................................................................................................................................................ 2239
Katsuichiro Goda, Gail M. Atkinson
473 A PROBABILISTIC MODEL FOR THE SEISMIC RISK OF BUILDINGS. APPLICATION TO ASSESS
THE SEISMIC RISK OF BUILDINGS IN URBAN AREAS. ................................................................................................................ 2249
Armando Aguilar, Luis Pujades, Alex Barbat, Nieves Lantada
573 AN EFFICIENT SEISMIC INTENSITY MEASURE FOR SEISMIC RISK ANALYSIS OF STRUCTURES ....................... 2259
Ozan Cem Celik, Bruce R. Ellingwood
1114 PROBABILISTIC MODELS FOR SEISMIC DAMAGE AND SUBSEQUENT LOSSES ....................................................... 2269
Shahrzad Talachian, Terje Haukaas, Kenneth J. Elwood
1505 A FRAMEWORK FOR EARTHQUAKE RISK ASSESSMENT FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES .................................. 2279
Maurizio Guadagnini, Shaukat Khan, Iman Hajirasouliha, Kypros Pilakoutas
BRIDGE DESIGN 1
793 REAL-TIME HYBRID TESTING OF SEISMIC PROTECTIVE SYSTEMS FOR BRIDGE STRUCTURES ....................... 2289
Cassandra Dion, Najib Bouaanani, Robert Tremblay, Charles-Philippe Lamarche, Martin Leclerc
1328 DYNAMIC BEHAVIOR OF THE JAMUNA MULTIPURPOSE BRIDGE CONSIDERING SOILSTRUCTURE INTERACTION.................................................................................................................................................................. 2299
Raquib Ahsan, Samy Reza
502 RETROFITTING OF A STEEL ARCH BRIDGE WITH TMD METHOD IN BABOLSAR (IRAN) ...................................... 2309
Zahra Tabrizian, Amir Abbas Fatemi, Hossein Kayhani, Roohollah Ahmady Jazany
1035 SEISMIC ANALYSIS AND DESIGN OF PITT RIVER BRIDGE............................................................................................... 2319
Don Kennedy, Saqib Khan, David Harvey
1364 SEISMIC RETROFIT ANALYSIS AND DESIGN OF THE CNR OVERHEAD ...................................................................... 2330
Yuming Ding, Samson Chan, Bill Szto
ASPECTS OF SEISMIC ANALYSIS
421 ENERGY-BASED CRITERION FOR THE SELECTION OF THE SEISMIC INPUT FOR INELASTIC
DYNAMIC ANALYSES .............................................................................................................................................................................. 2338
Enrico Tomassoli, Marco Mezzi
498 COMPARSION OF ESTIMATED SEISMIC DEMAND THROUGH PROBABILISTIC AND
INCREMENTAL DYNAMIC ANALYSIS ............................................................................................................................................... 2348
Mehdi Banazadeh, Mehdi Mahdavi Adeli, Ardeshir Deylami
807 EVALUATION OF MODAL PUSHOVER ANALYSIS (MPA) FOR TALL BUILDINGS SUBJECTED TO
TWO COMPONENTS OF GROUND MOTION..................................................................................................................................... 2358
Anil K. Chopra, Juan C. Reyes
909 ESTIMATION OF COLLAPSE CAPACITY AND COLLAPSE FRAGILITY USING MODAL PUSHOVER
ANALYSIS .................................................................................................................................................................................................... 2368
Sang Whan Han, Ki-Hoon Moon, Anil Chopra
1524 EFFECTS OF X-BRACING RESISTANT SYSTEM CONFIGURATION ON LIMIT STATE BEHAVIOR
IN STEEL FRAMES USING PUSHOVER ANALYSIS ......................................................................................................................... 2378
Peyman Shademan Heidari, Hossein Kayhani, Roohollah Ahmady Jazany
MASONRY-INFILLED AND RC WALLS
495 SHAKE TABLE TESTS OF A THREE-STORY MASONRY-INFILLED RC FRAME ............................................................ 2388
Andreas Stavridis, Ioannis Koutromanos, Benson Shing
594 SHAKE TABLE TESTS AND REPAIR OF DUCTILE SLENDER REINFORCED CONCRETE SHEAR
WALLS.......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 2398
Iman Ghorbanirenani, Robert Tremblay, Hossam El-Sokkary, Khaled Galal, Pierre Léger, Martin Leclerc
992 OUT-OF-PLANE SEISMIC PERFORMANCE OF UNREINFORCED MASONRY WALLS RETROFITTED
WITH UNBONDED POST-TENSIONING TENDONS.......................................................................................................................... 2408
Daniel Lazzarini, Peter Laursen, Cole McDaniel
1378 EFFECTS OF NONSTRUCTURAL PARTITION WALLS ON THE SEISMIC PERFORMANCE OF A
MEDICAL FACILITY ................................................................................................................................................................................ 2418
Gilberto Mosqueda, Ryan Davies, Rodrigo Retamales, Andre Filiatrault
1652 A SIMPLIFIED BEHAVIORAL MODEL FOR NONLINEAR SEISMIC ANALYSIS OF CONFINED
MASONRY WALLS .................................................................................................................................................................................... 2428
Fariman Ranjbaran, Mahmood Hosseini
SPECIAL SESSION: STEEL STRUCTURES, ANCHORS AND STAINLESS STEEL
1741 NON-STRUCTURAL COMPONENT PERFORMANCE IN FULL-SCALE 4-STORY BUILDING..................................... 2438
Yuichi Matsuoka, Keiichiro Suita, Satoshi Yamada, Yuko Shimada
1743 NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF E-DEFENCE-SPECIMEN SUBJECTED TO VARIOUS RECORDED
GROUND MOTIONS .................................................................................................................................................................................. 2448
Motohide Tada, Seiji Mukaide, Atsushi Mitani, Kazuhiko Kasai, Keiichiro Suita, Satoshi Yamada
1589 BEHAVIOR OF POST-INSTALLED CONCRETE UNDERCUT ANCHORS SUBJECTED TO HIGH
LOADING RATE AND CRACK CYCLING FREQUENCY................................................................................................................. 2456
Christoph Mahrenholtz, Rolf Eligehausen, Akanshu Sharma
1647 MECHANICAL AND LOW-CYCLE FATIGUE BEHAVIOR OF STAINLESS REINFORCING STEEL
FOR EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS .................................................................................................................... 2466
Yihui Zhou, Yu-Chen Ou, George C. Lee, Jerome S. O'Connor
1340 PRESTRESSED BEAM-TO-COLUMN MOMENT CONNECTIONS USING CUBASED SMA RODS ............................... 2476
Ricardo Herrera, Maria Ofelia Moroni, Manfred Olea, Mauricio Sarrazin
SOIL STABILITY
803 ACTIVE WEDGE ANALYSIS OF SEISMIC PRESSURES FOR RETAINED SLOPES .......................................................... 2486
Jonathan Pease, Dylan Menes
968 NUMERICAL STUDY OF SEISMIC EARTH PRESSURES IN CENTRIFUGE MODEL EXPERIMENTS......................... 2496
Linda Alatik, Nicholas Sitar
1033 APPLICATION OF DISPLACEMENT-BASED SEISMIC DESIGN APPROACH FOR MSE WALLS
WITH UNEVEN REINFORCEMENT...................................................................................................................................................... 2506
Raj Siddharthan, Vishnan Gopalan, Saria Buhary
VOLUME 4
1170 FROZEN SOIL EFFECT ON THE OBSERVED GROUND MOTION CHARACTERISTICS ............................................. 2516
Utpal Dutta, X. Gang, Zhaohui Yang, Kenan Hazirbaba
1618 USER INTERFACE FOR PERFORMANCE-BASED EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING: A SINGLE BENT
BRIDGE PILOT INVESTIGATION......................................................................................................................................................... 2526
Kevin Mackie, Jinchi Lu, Ahmed Elgamal
SPECIAL SESSION: CAPACITY FOR SEISMIC RISK REDUCTION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES PANEL
1365 CAPACITY BUILDING FOR SEISMIC RISK REDUCTION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES.......................................... 2536
Andrew Charleson
1390 A STRATEGIC WAY FOR PROMOTING IMPROVED SEISMIC RESISTANT TECHNIQUES TO
INDONESIAN BUILDERS ......................................................................................................................................................................... 2538
Sugeng Wijanto, Takim Andriono, Adhijoso Tjondro, Johannes Adhijoso
1471 LESSONS ON DISSEMINATION OF TECHNOLOGIES OF SEISMIC NONENGINEERED HOUSES ............................ 2546
Tatsuo Narafu, Akihiko Tasaka, Yoshiyuki Nakajima, Shizuko Matsuzaki, Keiko Sakoda, Hiroshi Imai
1677 SOME RECENT CAPACITY BUILDING ACTIVITIES IN INDIA TOWARDS SEISMIC RISK
REDUCTION................................................................................................................................................................................................ 2555
Sudhir Jain
1701 THE WORLD HOUSING ENCYCLOPEDIA: A MEANS TO STIMULATE SEISMIC RISK REDUCTION
EFFORTS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES ........................................................................................................................................... 2560
Dominik H. Lang
1787 A TRAINING PROGRAM TO BUILD SAFE AND HEALTHY ADOBE HOUSES AFTER THE PISCO
2007 EARTHQUAKE IN PERU................................................................................................................................................................. 2563
Marcial Blondet, Julio Vargas, Alvaro Rubiños
DAMAGE ASSESSMENT THROUGH REMOTE SENSING
969 SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS OF LANDSLIDES CAUSED BY THE 2008 WENCHUAN EARTHQUAKE
IN CHINA ..................................................................................................................................................................................................... 2572
Ellen Rathje, Lucas Carr
1315 TOWARDS QUANTIFYING MOVEMENT OF A MASSIVE LATERAL SPREAD USING HIGHRESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGE PROCESSING ........................................................................................................................... 2582
Brady Cox, Jackson Cothren, Adam Barnes, Joseph Wartman, Adrian Rodriguez-Marek, Jorge Meneses
789 BUILDING DAMAGE DISTRIBUTION IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF BEICHUAN COUNTY BY THE
2008 WENCHUAN, CHINA, EARTHQUAKE DETECTED FROM SATELLITE OPTICAL IMAGES ....................................... 2592
Hiroyuki Miura, Saburoh Midorikawa
4TH INT’L TSUNAMI SYMPOSIUM: TSUNAMI INSTRUMENTATION AND WARNING SYSTEM: RISK
ANALYSIS
1839 OFFSHORE TSUNAMETER DATA ANALYSIS AND APPLICATIONS: DETIDING, QUALITY
CONTROL AND MODEL VALIDATION............................................................................................................................................... 2601
Natalia Donoho, Stephen Gill, Katerina Glebushko
1836 MONITORING DETECTING AND WARNING OF TSUNAMIS .............................................................................................. 2606
Maria Ana Baptista, Luis Matias, Fernando Carrilho, Alessandro Annunziato, Rachid Omira, Miguel Miranda
1843 NOAA’S SHORT-TERM INUNDATION FORECAST FOR TSUNAMIS - VALIDATION OF THE
INVERSION SCHEME AND USE FOR TSUNAMI HAZARD ASSESSMENT................................................................................. 2615
Edison Gica, Michael C. Spillane, Donald B. Percival, Vasily V. Titov
1837 TSUNAMI IMPACT ON NEWFOUNDLAND, CANADA, DUE TO FAR-FIELD GENERATED
TSUNAMIS. IMPLICATIONS ON HAZARD ASSESSMENT ............................................................................................................. 2625
Jean Roger, Maria Ana Baptista, David Mosher, Hélène Hébert, Alexandre Sahal
1844 TOWARDS A NATIONAL TSUNAMI HAZARD MAP FOR CANADA: TSUNAMI SOURCES ......................................... 2631
Lucinda Leonard, Roy Hyndman, Garry Rogers
SPECIAL SESSION: HISTORICAL ASPECTS OF EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING
1001 A SHORT HISTORY OF THE INVOLVEMENT OF US UNIVERSITIES IN EARTHQUAKE
ENGINEERING ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 2641
Robert Reitherman
341 EVOLUTION OF THE SEISMIC PROVISIONS OF THE NATIONAL BUILDING CODE OF CANADA .......................... 2651
Art Heidebrecht
1657 THE EVOLUTION OF SEISMIC DESIGN PROVISIONS OF U. S. BUILDING CODES...................................................... 2661
William Holmes
1810 BRIEF HISTORY OF RESEARCH IN EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING AT CANADIAN UNIVERSITIES.................... 2671
Jagmohan Humar
SPECIAL SESSION: EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE AND CONTROL OF INFRASTRUCTURE IN URBAN AREAS
1464 EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON THE SEISMIC BEHAVIOR OF A NOVEL TYPE OF ALL-STEEL
BUCKLING-RESTRAINED BRACES ..................................................................................................................................................... 2684
Bin Wu, Junxian Zhao, Jinping Ou
451 BRIDGE SEISMIC DESIGN LESSONS LEARNED FROM WENCHUAN EARTHQUAKE OF CHINA............................. 2693
Han Wei, Kehai Wang, Qian Li, Jiangpeng Yang
452 SEISMIC PERFORMANCE OF ARCH BRIDGE OBSERVED IN TANGSHAN EARTHQUAKE AND
WENCHUAN EARTHQUAKE.................................................................................................................................................................. 2704
Qian Li, Kehai Wang, Han Wei, Jiangpeng Yang
1527 IN-SITU PUSHOVER TEST AND NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF AN EXISTING REINFORCED
CONCRETE FRAME STRUCTURE........................................................................................................................................................ 2712
Xilin Lu, Jiang Qian, Tuo Lei, Liang Lu, Guangye Zhao
1710 RECOVERABILITY ENHANCEMENT OF REINFORCED CONCRETE BRIDGE PIERS WITH FRP
COMPOSITES ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 2722
Zhishen Wu, Gang Wu, Mohamed M. F. Fahmy, Zeyang Sun
BRIDGE DESIGN 2
1198 COST-EFFECTIVENESS OF SEISMIC ISOLATION AND FIBER-REINFORCED CONCRETE IN
TYPICAL BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION IN CALIFORNIA................................................................................................................... 2732
Ady Aviram, Kevin Mackie, Bozidar Stojadinovic
1221 TRAFFIC LOAD CAPACITY OF A BRIDGE DAMAGED IN AN EARTHQUAKE .............................................................. 2742
Vesna Terzic, Bozidar Stojadinovic
1336 SEISMIC BEHAVIOR OF REINFORCED CONCRETE FILLED STEEL TUBE PILE/COLUMN BRIDGE
BENTS ........................................................................................................................................................................................................... 2752
Luis A. Montejo, Lennie A. González-Román, Mervyn J. Kowalsky
1392 PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF ADVANCED SEISMIC ANALYSIS OF STRUCTURES IN
PRODUCTION PROJECT ENVIRONMENT......................................................................................................................................... 2762
Hassan Sedarat, Alexander Kozak, Alex Krimotat, Ahmad Itani
88 SEISMIC PROGRESSIVE COLLAPSE ANALYSIS ON REINFORCED CONCRETE BRIDGES.......................................... 2772
David T. Lau, Hartanto Wibowo
791 AXIAL-SHEAR-FLEXURE INTERACTION HYSTERETIC MODEL FOR RC BRIDGE COLUMNS
UNDER COMBINED ACTIONS ............................................................................................................................................................... 2782
Jian Zhang, Shi-Yu Xu
LOSS ESTIMATION AND OTHER ASPECTS OF SEISMIC RESPONSE
226 PROPOSED SEISMIC SIGNALS GENERATED COMPATIBLE TO CNBC 2005 DESIGN SPECTRA............................... 2792
Tewfik Benazza, Omar Chaallal
388 LOSS ESTIMATION OF MULTI-MODE DOMINATED STRUCTURES FOR A SCENARIO OF
EARTHQUAKE EVENT ............................................................................................................................................................................ 2801
Nilesh Shome, Nicolas Luco
685 DAMAGE-BASED SPECTRAL MATCHING ................................................................................................................................. 2811
Bijan Mohraz, Mofid Nakhaei
936 AN ASSESSMENT OF SITE AMPLIFICATION FACTORS FOR THE WESTERN UNITED STATES .............................. 2821
Yin-Nan Huang, Andrew Whittaker, Nicolas Luco
1223 INFLUENCE OF RESIDUAL DISPLACEMENTS ON BUILDING LOSS ESTIMATION .................................................... 2831
Eduardo Miranda, Marc Ramirez
1470 POTENTIAL BENEFITS OF AN ENERGY FACTOR DISPLACEMENT-BASED DESIGN APPROACH ........................ 2841
Timothy Sullivan
RESPONSE OF CONCRETE STRUCTURES 2
810 EFFECTS OF STRONG-MOTION DURATION ON THE RESPONSE OF REINFORCED CONCRETE
FRAME BUILDINGS .................................................................................................................................................................................. 2851
Lan Lin, Nove Naumoski, Murat Saatcioglu, Simon Foo
823 SYSTEM-LEVEL ACCEPTANCE CRITERIA FOR SEISMIC ASSESSMENTS OF PRE-1970
REINFORCED CONCRETE BUILDINGS.............................................................................................................................................. 2861
Majid Baradaran Shoraka, Kenneth J. Elwood, Terje Haukaas
842 FRAGILITY CURVES FOR REINFORCED CONCRETE BUILDINGS USING HIGH DIMENSIONAL
MODEL REPRESENTATION................................................................................................................................................................... 2871
Vipin Unnithan, A. M. U. Prasad, B. N. Rao
848 NONLINEAR STATIC SEISMIC ANALYSIS AND ITS VALIDATION USING DAMAGE DATA FROM
REINFORCED-CONCRETE SCHOOL BUILDINGS ........................................................................................................................... 2880
Yi-Hsuan Tu, Tzu-Wei Liu, Lai-Cheng Ao, Pei-Lin Yeh
882 EVALUATION OF FAILURE MODES OF R.C. BUILDINGS ..................................................................................................... 2890
Stylianos Pardalopoulos, Georgia Thermou, Stavroula Pantazopoulou
903 EARTHQUAKE SIMULATION TESTS OF A 1:5 SCALE PILOTI-TYPE LOWRISE RC RESIDENTIAL
BUILDING MODEL.................................................................................................................................................................................... 2900
Han Seon Lee, Dong Wook Jung, Kyung Bo Lee, Hee Chul Kim, Young Hak Lee, Ki Hak Lee
EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION OF STEEL COMPONENTS
845 EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION OF CONCENTRICALLY-BRACED FRAME BEAM-COLUMN
CONNECTION FLEXURAL RESPONSE ............................................................................................................................................... 2910
Larry Fahnestock, Christopher Stoakes
1008 DYNAMIC TESTS OF 0.76 & 0.91 MM STEEL DECK DIAPHRAGMS FOR SINGLE-STOREY
BUILDINGS.................................................................................................................................................................................................. 2920
Robert Massarelli, John Franquet, Kishor Shrestha, Robert Tremblay, Colin Rogers
1040 EVALUATION OF THE BENDING BEHAVIOR OF HOLLOW STRUCTURAL SECTION (HSS)
MEMBERS FOR SEISMIC APPLICATIONS ........................................................................................................................................ 2930
Jason McCormick, Matthew Fadden
1068 EXPERIMENTAL TESTS ON CYCLIC BEAM-COLUMN INTERACTION STRENGTH OF
CONCRETE-FILLED STEEL TUBES..................................................................................................................................................... 2940
Roberto Leon, Tiziano Perea, Mark Denavit, Jerome Hajjar
1069 DYNAMIC TESTING AND ANALYSES OF WOOD SHEATHED / CFS FRAMED SHEAR WALLS................................ 2950
Iman Shamim, Denise Morello, Colin Rogers
1488 LARGE SCALE TEST OF A MODULAR STEEL PLATE SHEAR WALL WITH PARTIALLY ENCASED
COMPOSITE COLUMNS .......................................................................................................................................................................... 2960
Mehdi Dastfan, Robert G. Driver
SOIL-STRUCTURE INTERACTION AND SOIL STABILITY
307 KEMESS MINE TAILINGS STORAGE FACILITY - INVESTIGATION AND EVALUATION OF
LIQUEFACTION POTENTIAL USING IN-SITU BLASTING ............................................................................................................ 2970
Andrew Witte, Todd Martin, Blair Gohl
362 MODELING THE DYNAMIC PROPERTIES OF CEMENTED SAND FOR SITE RESPONSE ANALYSIS....................... 2980
Lynn Salvati, Luling Yang
1006 FIELD MEASUREMENTS OF LINEAR AND NONLINEAR SHEAR MODULI OF CEMENTED
ALLUVIUM .................................................................................................................................................................................................. 2990
Kenneth Stokoe II, Kwangsoo Park, Wonseok Seo, Michael Schuhen
1217 EVALUATION OF VOLUMETRIC THRESHOLD STRAIN CONSIDERING NOISY FEEDBACK
SIGNALS FROM SIMPLE SHEAR DEVICE ......................................................................................................................................... 3000
Eric Yee, Jonathan Stewart, Frederic Schoenberg
127 SEISMIC ANALYSIS OF RCC CANTILEVER RETAINING WALL......................................................................................... 3008
Mahua Chakrrabarti, Paresh Mestri
SPECIAL SESSION: RECENT ADVANCES IN HYBRID SIMULATION
13 SUBSTRUCTURING TECHNIQUES FOR HYBRID SIMULATION OF COMPLEX STRUCTURAL
SYSTEMS...................................................................................................................................................................................................... 3018
Maria Cortez-Delgado, Gilberto Mosqueda, Tao Wang
120 DISTRIBUTED ONLINE HYBRID TEST OF A FOUR-STORY STEEL MOMENT FRAME USING
FLEXIBLE TEST SCHEME ...................................................................................................................................................................... 3028
Gilberto Mosqueda, Tao Wang, Andres Jacobsen, Maria Cortes-Delgado
1108 ADVANCED IMPLEMENTAION OF NONLINEAR CONTROL ALGORITHMS FOR SHAKING TABLE
TESTS............................................................................................................................................................................................................ 3038
T. Y. Yang, Andreas Schellenberg
1522 PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT OF BUILDING SYSTEMS WITH ELASTOMERIC DAMPERS USING
REAL-TIME HYBRID SIMULATION .................................................................................................................................................... 3048
James Ricles, Theodore Karavasilis, Richard Sause, Cheng Chen
1024 UK-NEES - DISTRIBUTED HYBRID TESTING BETWEEN BRISTOL, CAMBRIDGE AND OXFORD
UNIVERSITIES: CONNECTING STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS LABS TO A GEOTECHNICAL CENTRIFUGE. ................... 3058
Mobin Ojaghi, Ignacio Lamata Martinez, Matt Dietz, Martin Williams, A. Blakeborough, Adam Crewe, Colin Taylor, Gopal
Madabhushi, S. Haigh, A. Ali
1257 MIXED AND SWITCH DEGREE-OF-FREEDOM CONTROL IN HYBRID SIMULATION ............................................... 3068
Bozidar Stojadinovic, Hong Kim, Catherine Whyte
SPECIAL SESSION: SEISMIC RISK ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF CIVIL INFRASTRUCTURE
1781 RAPID OBSERVATION OF VULNERABILITY AND ESTIMATION OF RISK (ROVER): END-TO-END
SEISMIC RISK MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE..................................................................................................................................... 3078
Keith Porter
1239 SEISMIC SCREENING OF BUILDINGS IN CANADA ............................................................................................................... 3088
Murat Saatcioglu, Mohammad Shooshari, Simon Foo
1145 SEISMIC LIFE-CYCLE COST ANALYSIS OF AGED BRIDGES ............................................................................................ 3098
Jamie Padgett, Jayadipta Ghosh
1814 REPLACING SEISMICALLY-WEAK AND AGING WATER PIPES ...................................................................................... 3109
John Eidinger
1507 RISK-BASED SEISMIC RETROFIT PRIORITIZATION OF REINFORCED CONCRETE CIVIC
INFRASTRUCTURE: CASE STUDY FOR STATE OF OREGON SCHOOLS AND EMERGENCY FACILITIES ................... 3119
Solomon Tesfamariam, Yumei Wang, Murat Saatcioglu
1600 SEISMIC EVALUATION METHODOLOGY ISSUES ................................................................................................................ 3129
Brian Kehoe
ISOLATED SYSTEMS
303 FULL-SCALE SHAKING TABLE TEST OF A HOSPITAL MADE OF A BASE-ISOLATED FOUR-STORY
CONCRETE STRUCTURE........................................................................................................................................................................ 3139
Sachi Furukawa, Eiji Sato, Kouichi Kajiwara, Xiaodong Ji, Masayoshi Nakashima
460 RESPONSE OF ISOLATED RC BUILDINGS UNDER BIDIRECTIONAL NEARFAULT GROUND
MOTIONS..................................................................................................................................................................................................... 3149
Ugurhan Akyuz, Gokhan Ozdemir
619 OPTIMUM SELECTION OF ISOLATOR PROPERTIES FOR EFFECTIVE MITIGATION OF SEISMIC
RISK FOR BRIDGES.................................................................................................................................................................................. 3159
Memduh Karalar, Murat Dicleli
556 POLE ASSIGNMENT USING PSO-SA HYBRID ALGORITHM FOR SLIDING MODE CONTROL ON
ISOLATED BRIDGES WITH COLUMNS OF IRREGULAR HEIGHT ............................................................................................ 3169
Po-Chuan Chen, Tzu-Ying Lee, Der-Shin Juang
1379 BASE ISOLATED STRUCTURE – THE NEW SAN FRANCISCO............................................................................................ 3179
Eric Ko, T. Morgan, M. Bello, R. Bailey, R. Golesorkhi, L. Lam, S. Tong
445 DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS FOR A BASE ISOLATED STRUCTURE WITH TRIPLE FRICTION
PENDULUM ISOLATORS: ISTANBUL SABIHA GOKCEN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT TERMINAL
BUILDING .................................................................................................................................................................................................... 3189
Atila Zekioglu, Huseyin Darama, Baris Erkus
SEISMIC HAZARDS 1: A GLOBAL OVERVIEW
785 EVALUATING THE SEISMIC HAZARD IN ANCHORAGE, ALASKA.................................................................................... 3199
Ivan Wong, Timothy Dawson, Mark Dober, Youssef Hashash
436 PROBABILISTIC SEISMIC HAZARD ASSESSMENT FOR SOUTH PACIFIC ISLANDS .................................................... 3209
Yufang Rong, Mehrdad Mahdyiar, Bingming Shen-Tu, Khosrow Shabestari, Jay Guin
867 SPECTRAL ACCELERATION ATTENUATION FOR SEISMIC HAZARD ANALYSIS IN IRAN ...................................... 3219
Hamid Safari, Yasuko Kuwata, Shiro Takada, Abbas Mahdavian
753 SEISMIC HAZARD IN WESTERN CANADA FROM GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM STRAIN RATE
DATA ............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 3229
Lucinda Leonard, Stephane Mazzotti, John Cassidy, Garry Rogers, Stephen Halchuk
1775 SEISMIC HAZARD ANALYSIS AND ROCK GROUND MOTIONS FOR A SITE IN DUBAI............................................. 3239
Ayman Shama
133 SEISMIC HAZARD OF EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN REGION ............................................................................................ 3251
Zehra Cagnan, Sinan Akkar
1744 NEAR FIELD GROUND MOTION SYNTHESIS FOR GEMLIK REGION, TURKEY BASED ON
SCENARIO EARTHQUAKES................................................................................................................................................................... 3261
G. Tanircan, C. Yenidogan, N. Savas
4TH INT’L TSUNAMI SYMPOSIUM: TSUNAMI ENGINEERING: EXPERIMENTAL MODELING
1855 FORECAST ALGORITHM FOR INTERPLATE GENERATED TSUNAMIS CALIBRATED BY DRAG
FORCE TRANSPORT OF EASTER ISLAND MONOLITHS .............................................................................................................. 3271
Salvador Farreras, Modesto Ortiz
1853 NUMERICAL MODELING OF TSUNAMI WAVES IN FRENCH WEST INDIES ................................................................ 3275
Narcisse Zahibo, Efim Pelinovsky, Irina Nikolkina
1846 THE EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI OF 365 A.D. IN THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN SEA................................... 3284
George Pararas-Carayannis, Charles L. Mader
1840 ESTIMATION OF TSUNAMI FORCES ON INFRASTRUCTURE: FIELD INVESTIGATIONS AND
PHYSICAL AND NUMERICAL MODELING ....................................................................................................................................... 3294
Ioan Nistor, Dan Palermo, Murat Saatcioglu, Tad Murty
1850 ON-SHORE HYDRAULIC LOADS: EARTHQUAKE EXCITED TSUNAMIS........................................................................ 3302
Angelo Thurairajah
1857 LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS ON HYDRODYNAMIC PERFORMANCES OF MANGROVE FOREST
AGAINST TSUNAMI IMPACT................................................................................................................................................................. 3312
A. Strusinska, S. Husrin, H. Oumeraci
SEISMIC PERFORMANCE OF BRIDGES 1
111 BIDIRECTIONAL-RESISTANT DUCTILE END DIAPHRAGMS FOR STRAIGHT STEEL BRIDGES............................. 3322
Oguz C. Celik, Michel Bruneau
208 PERFORMANCE OF BRIDGE REINFORCED CONCRETE COLUMNS UNDER COMBINED ACTIONS
THROUGHOUT SHAKE TABLE TESTING.......................................................................................................................................... 3332
Juan G. Arias-Acosta, David H. Sanders
1280 EFFECTS OF POUNDING AND SKEWNESS ON SEISMIC RESPONSES OF MULTI-SPAN HIGHWAY
BRIDGES USING FRAGILITY FUNCTION METHOD....................................................................................................................... 3343
Jian Zhang, Yili Huo
405 NON-LINEAR BRIDGE RESPONSE TO DIFFERENTIAL SUPPORT MOTIONS ................................................................. 3353
Katerina Konakli, Armen Der Kiureghian
644 SEISMIC BEHAVIOR OF A HALF-THROUGH STEEL ARCH BRIDGE SUBJECTED TO GROUND
MOTIONS AND FAULT DISPLACEMENT........................................................................................................................................... 3363
Toshitaka Yamao, Tatsuya Sho, Yoshie Tsujino, Taiji Mazuda
VOLUME 5
701 SEISMIC PERFORMANCE OF HIGH-STRENGTH-CONCRETE HOLLOW BRIDGE PIERS UNDER
MULTI-DIRECTIONAL LOADING ........................................................................................................................................................ 3372
Xuejian Liu, Rigoberto Burgueno, Eric Hines
SPECIAL SESSION: SEISMIC DESIGN CODES IN THE US AND CANADA
296 COMPARISON OF US AND CANADIAN CODE REQUIREMENTS FOR SEISMIC DESIGN OF STEEL
BUILDINGS.................................................................................................................................................................................................. 3382
Rafael Sabelli, Brian Dean
297 IMPROVED SEISMIC ANALYSIS OF LIGHT-FRAMED MULTI-STORY RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS
WITH REFERENCE TO U.S. AND CANADIAN CODES .................................................................................................................... 3396
Doug Hohbach, Sam Shiotani
161 THE 2010 AISC SEISMIC PROVISIONS FOR STRUCTURAL STEEL BUILDINGS............................................................. 3406
James Malley
1387 PROPOSALS FOR THE SEISMIC DESIGN PROVISIONS OF THE 2010 NATIONAL BUILDING CODE
OF CANADA ................................................................................................................................................................................................ 3415
Jagmohan Humar, John Adams, Robert Tremblay, Colin Rogers, Stephen Halchuk
1768 SEISMIC DESIGN OF STEEL STRUCTURES IN ACCORDANCE WITH CSA-S16-09....................................................... 3425
Robert Tremblay, Michel Bruneau, Robert Driver, Andy Metten, Jim Montgomery, Colin Rogers
1404 NEW SEISMIC PROVISION IN ASCE/SEI 7-10 .......................................................................................................................... 3438
John D. Hooper
RESPONSE OF CONCRETE STRUCTURES 3
926 SEISMIC FRAGILITY OF OPEN GROUND STOREY BUILDINGS IN INDIA ....................................................................... 3446
Devdas Menon, P. Robin Davis, Tushar K. Padhy, A. Meher Prasad
1011 ESTIMATING SEISMIC DEMANDS ON GRAVITY-LOAD COLUMNS IN CONCRETE SHEAR WALL
BUILDINGS.................................................................................................................................................................................................. 3456
Poureya Bazargani, Perry Adebar
1066 INFLUENCE OF ORIENTATION OF RECORDED GROUND MOTION COMPONENTS ON THE
LONGITUDINAL REINFORCING STEEL AREA IN CONCRETE FRAME ELEMENTS WITHIN THE
CONTEXT OF LINEAR RESPONSE HISTORY ANALYSIS.............................................................................................................. 3466
Asimina Athanatopoulou, Konstantinos Kostinakis, Ioannis Avramidis
1191 VARIATION OF SMALL AMPLITUDE VIBRATION DYNAMIC PROPERTIES WITH
DISPLACEMENT IN REINFORCED CONCRETE STRUCTURES .................................................................................................. 3476
Ayhan Irfanoglu, Fabian Consuegra
1517 EVALUATION OF SEISMIC SAFETY OF EXISTING REINFORCED CONCRETE BUILDINGS IN
WESTERN REGION OF TURKEY .......................................................................................................................................................... 3486
Kasim Korkmaz, Ayhan Irfanoglu, Ali Haydar Kayhan, Aykut Deniz
1769 RESPONSE MODIFICATION FACTOR FOR REINFORCED CONCRETE (RC) LIQUID CONTAINING
STRUCTURES ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 3496
Reza Kianoush, Reza Sadjadi
SEISMIC PERFORMANCE OF STEEL COMPONENTS AND CONNECTIONS
335 EFFECT OF CONTINUITY PLATE ARRANGEMENT ON SEISMIC BEHAVIOR OF PANEL ZONE
WITH UNEQUAL BEAM DEPTH FOR INTERIOR COLUMNS IN SMRFS................................................................................... 3506
Roohollah Ahmady Jazany, Hossein Kayhani, Amir Abbas Fatemi, Zahra Tabrizian
778 CYCLIC EVOLUTION OF DAMAGE AND BEAM-COLUMN INTERACTION STRENGTH OF
CONCRETE-FILLED STEEL TUBE BEAM-COLUMNS .................................................................................................................... 3516
Jerome Hajjar, Mark Denavit, Tiziano Perea, Roberto Leon
1139 SEISMIC PERFORMANCE AND DESIGN OF BRACED FRAME GUSSET PLATE CONNECTIONS ............................ 3526
Charles Roeder, Dawn Lehman, Jacob Powell, Po-Chien Hsiao
17:01 1327 SEISMIC PERFORMANCE OF STEEL BUILD- UP BATTEN COLUMNS ................................................................. 3536
Mehran Seyed Razzaghi, Mohammad Ali Jafari, Hojatallah Ahmadpour
1086 REDUCED LINK SECTIONS FOR IMPROVING THE DUCTILITY OF ECCENTRICALLY BRACED
FRAME LINK-TO-COLUMN CONNECTIONS .................................................................................................................................... 3546
Jeffrey Berman, Taichiro Okazaki, Heidrun Hauksdottir
1659 INVESTIGATION OF REPLACEABLE SACRIFICIAL STEEL LINKS ................................................................................. 3556
Peter Dusicka, Gregory Lewis
SOIL-FOUNDATION INTERACTION
241 A SIMPLE NONLINEAR DESIGN MODEL FOR DRILLED SHAFTS IN COHESIVE SOIL ............................................... 3566
Aaron Shelman, Sri Sritharan
1179 IMPACT OF SHEAR-FLEXURE INTERACTION ON P-Y CURVES OF PILE FOUNDATIONS ...................................... 3576
Anne Lemnitzer, Leonardo Massone, John Wallace
1453 FACTORS INFLUENCING DEFORMATION MODE OF PILES IN LIQUEFACTION-INDUCED
LATERAL SPREADING TEST USING E-DEFENSE FACILITIES ................................................................................................... 3586
Hiroko Suzuki, Masayoshi Sato, Kentaro Tabata, Kohji Tokimatsu
1623 COMBINED EFFECTS OF GROUND DISPLACEMENT AND INERTIAL FORCE ON PILE STRESSES
IN CENTRIFUGE MODEL TESTS .......................................................................................................................................................... 3595
Youhao Zhou, Hiroko Suzuki, Kohji Tokimatsu
780 ESTIMATION OF DEPTH OF ENGINEERING BEDROCK USING MICROTREMORS OBSERVED ON
GROUND SURFACE .................................................................................................................................................................................. 3604
Terumasa Okamoto, Osamu Tsujihara
366 EFFECT OF SOIL SLOPE ON LATERAL CAPACITY OF PILES IN COHESIVE SOILS.................................................... 3614
Nontapat Nimityongskul, Scott A. Ashford
EXPERIMENTAL METHODS
1076 ESTIMATING DYNAMIC STRAINS IN SOIL GENERATED BY THE LARGE MOBILE SHAKERS AT
NEES@UTEXAS.......................................................................................................................................................................................... 3621
Farn-Yuh Menq, Brady Cox, Kwangsoo Park, Kenneth Stokoe II
1388 A CRITICAL ASSESSMENT OF INTERSTORY DRIFT MEASUREMENTS ........................................................................ 3631
Derek Skolnik, John Wallace
1081 SYNCHRONIZATION OF AMBIENT VIBRATIONS DATA FROM TESTS ON LARGE BUILDINGS
OBTAINED BY MULTIPLE DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEMS......................................................................................................... 3641
Salman Saeed, Luc Chouinard
484 TIME STEP OPTIMIZATION FOR DISTRIBUTED HYBRID SIMULATION BETWEEN UNIVERSITY
OF CALIFORNIA-BERKELEY AND UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND............................................................................................. 3650
Catherine Whyte, Liam Wotherspoon, Hong Kim, Bozidar Stojadinovic, Quincy Ma
1296 EVALUATION OF FLOOR RESPONSE SPECTRA BASED ON AMBIENT VIBRATION
MEASUREMENTS...................................................................................................................................................................................... 3660
L. Tashkov, L. Krstevska, A. Nour, V. Gocevski, M. Garrevski
1591 MODAL IDENTIFICATION OF RC BUILDINGS BY AMBIENT RESPONSE TESTING AND ANALYSIS
OF THEIR RECORDED RESPONSES TO WEAK EARTHQUAKES ............................................................................................... 3669
S. Simeonov, K. Hadjiyski
SPECIAL SESSION: SEISMIC RISK ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF CIVIL INFRASTRUCTURE 2
1318 METHODS, MODELS, AND SOFTWARE FOR SEISMIC RISK ASSESSMENT .................................................................. 3679
Terje Haukaas, Mojtaba Mahsuli
1489 FUZZY MODEL OF THE LIFE-CYCLE ANALYSIS OF BUILDING IN SEISMIC REGIONS........................................... 3689
Solomon Tesfamariam, Mauricio Sanchez-Silva
1341 DESIGN OF CAT-IN-A-BOX PARAMETRIC EARTHQUAKE CAT BOND TRIGGERS.................................................... 3699
Guillermo Franco
1678 COLLABORATIVE EFFORT TO ESTIMATE COLLAPSE FRAGILITY FOR BUILDINGS
WORLDWIDE: THE WHE-PAGER PROJECT .................................................................................................................................... 3709
Dina D'Ayala, Kishor Jaiswal, David Wald, Keith Porter, Marjorie Greene
1095 DEVELOPMENT OF A SEMI-EMPIRICAL LOSS MODEL WITHIN THE USGS PROMPT
ASSESSMENT OF GLOBAL EARTHQUAKES FOR RESPONSE (PAGER) SYSTEM ................................................................. 3720
Kishor Jaiswal, David Wald
1240 SIMPLIFIED DRIFT-BASED SEISMIC FRAGILITY ASSESSMENT OF CONFINED MASONRY
BUILDINGS.................................................................................................................................................................................................. 3732
Jorge Ruiz-García, Amador Terán-Gilmore, Oscar Zuñiga-Cuevas
SEISMIC DESIGN WITH SUPPLEMENTAL DAMPING SYSTEMS
166 INNOVATIVE CONFIGURATIONS AND MORPHOLOGIES USING DISSIPATING BRACING SYSTEMS................... 3742
Marco Mezzi
359 SEISMIC DESIGN AND RETROFIT PROCEDURE FOR TOTAL ACCELERATIONS AND INTERSTORY DRIFTS REDUCTION OF BUILDINGS WITH PROTECTIVE SYSTEMS....................................................................... 3752
Oren Lavan
731 INITIAL PARAMETER DEVELOPMENT FOR MULTI-PHASE PERFORMANCEBASED PASSIVE
CONTROL SYSTEMS ................................................................................................................................................................................ 3762
Justin Marshall
1015 SEISMIC RESPONSE OF NONSTRUCTURAL ELEMENTS IN STRUCTURES WITH ENERGYDISSIPATION SYSTEMS .......................................................................................................................................................................... 3772
Eleni Pavlou, Michael Constantinou, Panayiotis Roussis
1725 FRAGILITY CURVES FOR CONCRETE FRAME BUILDINGS WITH PASSIVE CONTROLLERS ............................... 3783
Orlando Cundumi, Sylvia Teresa Laboy
146 VISCOUS DAMPER LIMIT STATES AND COLLAPSE ANALYSIS OF STEEL FRAME BUILDINGS
WITH DAMPERS ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 3793
Kit Miyamoto, Amir Gilani, Arika Wada
SPECIAL SESSION: USING TECHNOLOGY TO INFLUENCE INDIVIDUAL, SOCIAL,
ORGANIZATIONAL, AND COMMUNITY BEHAVIOR BEFORE AND AFTER AN
EARTHQUAKE (PANEL
1811 USING TECHNOLOGY TO INFLUENCE INDIVIDUAL, SOCIAL, ORGANIZATIONAL, AND
COMMUNITY BEHAVIOR BEFORE AND AFTER AN EARTHQUAKE EVENT......................................................................... 3803
Charles Huyck, Walter Svekla
1813 WIRELESS SENSING TECHNOLOGIES FOR PRE-EARTHQUAKE EVENT MITIGATION AND POSTEARTHQUAKE EVENT RESPONSE ...................................................................................................................................................... 3811
Jerome Lynch
1826 ROLE OF TECHNOLOGY IN DEVELOPING AND RECOMMENDING EARTHQUAKE ALERTING
PROTOCOLS ............................................................................................................................................................................................... 3820
Douglas Bausch, David Wald
SEISMIC HAZARDS 2: EVALUATION OF METHODOLOGIES
286 CONSERVATISM IN INTRAPLATE PSHA STUDIES ................................................................................................................. 3829
Roger Musson
439 MMIN - IMPLICATIONS OF ITS CHOICE FOR CANADIAN SEISMIC HAZARD AND SEISMIC RISK ........................... 3839
Stephen Halchuk, John Adams
856 DESIGN SPECTRA FOR USE IN PROBABILITY-BASED DESIGN WITH EQUIVALENT
LINEARLIZATION TECHNIQUE........................................................................................................................................................... 3847
Yasuhiro Mori, Kota Ibuki, Maya Oba
925 ESTIMATED SEISMIC DESIGN VALUES FOR CANADIAN MISSIONS ABROAD ............................................................. 3857
John Adams, Stephen Halchuk, Ahmed Awatta
1129 SENSITIVITY OF DESIGN SPECTRUM FOR BRITISH COLUMBIA TO DIFFERENT LEVELS OF
PROBABILITY OF EXCEEDANCE ........................................................................................................................................................ 3867
Manuel Archila, Carlos Ventura, Freddy Pina, Jose Centeno
260 SITE RESPONSE ANALYSIS INCORPORATED IN PROBABILISTIC SEISMIC HAZARD
ASSESSMENTS ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 3877
Stavroula Kontoe, Myrto Papaspiliou, Julian Bommer
SEISMIC PERFORMANCE OF BRIDGES 2
250 EFFECT OF SKEW ON THE SEISMIC RESPONSE OF RC BOX-GIRDER BRIDGES......................................................... 3887
Ahmed Abdel-Mohti, Gokhan Pekcan
200 GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE RESPONSE – A PRELIMINARY STUDY WITH LOW AMPLITUDE
EARTHQUAKE DATA............................................................................................................................................................................... 3897
Mehmet Celebi, Christopher Stephens, Erol Kalkan
669 ANALYTICAL FRAGILITY CURVES FOR SEISMICALLY AND NONSEISMICALLY DESIGNED
MULTI-SPAN CONTINUOUS CONCRETE GIRDER BRIDGES IN MODERATE SEISMIC ZONES ....................................... 3906
Karthik Ramanathan, Reginald Desroches, Jamie Padgett
1052 SUBESTRUCTURE IRREGULARITY FOR DIFFERENT TYPES OF BRIDGES SUBJECTED TO
SEISMIC ACTION ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 3916
Consuelo Gómez-Soberón, Daymaru Salas-Mengchún
1269 IMPACT OF MODELLING ASSUMPTIONS FOR ASSESSING THE SEISMIC RESPONSE OF TWIN
BRIDGES CONSIDERING SOIL-STRUCTURE INTERACTION IN 3D SPACE............................................................................ 3926
Anastasios Sextos, Periklis Faraonis, Evagelos Katsanos
1638 EVALUATION OF AVAILABLE FORCE REDUCTION FACTORS FOR CONCRETE BRIDGES .................................. 3936
A. Kappos, T. Paraskeva, J. Moschonas
942 AN APPROXIMATE METHOD FOR DYNAMIC ANALYSIS OF HIGHWAY SKEWED BRIDGES WITH
CONTINUOUS DECK ................................................................................................................................................................................ 3946
A. Kalantari, M. Amjadian
SPECIAL SESSION: EVALUATION OF COLLAPSE PERFORMANCE – EXAMPLE APPLICATIONS OF THE
FEMA P695 (ATC-63) METHODOLOGY
1734 OVERVIEW AND KEY CONCEPTS OF THE FEMA P-695 (ATC-63) METHODOLOGY .................................................. 3956
Charles Kircher, Jon Heintz
1735 EXAMPLE APPLICATION OF THE ATC-63 METHODOLOGY FOR THE COLLAPSE
PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF WOOD LIGHT-FRAME SYSTEMS ..................................................................................... 3966
Andre Filiatrault, Ioannis Christovasilis
1738 EXAMPLE COLLAPSE PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF STEEL CONCENTRICALLY BRACED
SYSTEMS...................................................................................................................................................................................................... 3976
Stephen Mahin, Chui-Hsin Chen
1757 EXAMPLE APPLICATION OF THE FEMA P695 (ATC-63) METHODOLOGY FOR THE COLLAPSE
PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF REINFORCED MASONRY SHEAR WALL STRUCTURES ........................................... 3986
P. Benson Shing, Ioannis Koutromanos
1765 EXAMPLE APPLICATION OF THE FEMA P695 (ATC-63) METHODOLOGY FOR THE COLLAPSE
PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF REINFORCED CONCRETE SPECIAL MOMENT FRAME BUILDINGS ................... 3996
Curt Haselton, Abbie Liel, Gregory Deierlein
SPECIAL SESSION: RC WALL SYSTEMS – STATE OF THE ART AND PRACTICE – PART I: SLENDER
WALL TESTING AND MODELING
773 INVESTIGATION OF THE SEISMIC RESPONSE OF SLENDER PLANAR CONCRETE WALLS.................................... 4006
Laura Lowes, Anna Birely, Ken Marley, Chris Hart, Dan Kuchma, Dawn Lehman
813 STRENGTH AND DEFORMABILITY OF REINFORCED CONCRETE COLUMNS WITH WING WALLS .................... 4016
Toshimi Kabeyasawa, Toshikazu Kabeyasawa, Yousok Kim, Toshinori Kabeyasawa, Bae Kunkuk, Phan Van Quang
1713 SIMPLIFIED MODELING OF NON-RECTANGULAR RC STRUCTURAL WALLS........................................................... 4026
Beth Brueggen, Catherine French
1506 NONLINEAR ANALYSIS OF T-SHAPED CONCRETE WALLS SUBJECTED TO MULTIDIRECTIONAL LOADING ....................................................................................................................................................................... 4036
Jonathan Waugh, Sri Sritharan
1824 SEISMIC BEHAVIOR OF RC STRUCTURAL WALLS AND EUROCODE 8 PROVISIONS .............................................. 4046
Matej Fischinger, Klemen Rejec, Tatjana Isakovic
1148 EFFECTIVE STIFFNESS OF HIGH-RISE CANTILEVER SHEAR WALLS.......................................................................... 4056
Ehsan Dezhdar, Perry Adebar
SEISMIC DESIGN AND PERFORMANCE OF STEEL STRUCTURES
306 DESIGN OF STEEL PLATE SHEAR WALLS CONSIDERING BOUNDARY FRAME MOMENT
RESISTING ACTION ................................................................................................................................................................................. 4066
Bing Qu, Michel Bruneau
584 RELIABILITY-BASED EVALUATION OF DESIGN PROCEDURE FOR STEEL SELF-CENTERING
MOMENT FRAMES ................................................................................................................................................................................... 4076
Gordana Herning, Maria Garlock, Erik Vanmarcke
660 DESIGN PHILOSOPHY FOR STEEL STRUCTURES IN MODERATE SEISMIC REGIONS .............................................. 4086
Eric Hines, Larry Fahnestock
666 ENERGY-BASED DESIGN OF STEEL BUILDING FRAMEWORKS USING NONLINEAR TIME
HISTORY ANYLYSIS ................................................................................................................................................................................ 4095
Yusong Xue, Yanglin Gong, Lei Xu, Donald E. Grierson
750 UNITED STATES COURTHOUSE:APPLICATION OF PERFORMANCE BASED DESIGN TO AN
ECCENTRICALLY BRACED FRAME STRUCTURE ......................................................................................................................... 4104
Thomas A Sabol, Diana Nishi, Paul Kagoo
805 OPTIMAL DESIGN OF FRICTION DAMPERS FOR MULTI-STOREY BUILDINGS........................................................... 4114
Lucia Tirca, Juan-David Morales, Ge-Li Guo, Liang Chen
SPECIAL SESSION: SOIL LIQUEFACTION
1100 EXPERIMENTAL INSIGHT INTO LIQUEFACTION-INDUCED BUILDING SETTLEMENT.......................................... 4124
Jonathan Bray, Shideh Dashti, Juan Pestana, Michael Riemer, Dan Wilson
1431 CYCLIC SHEAR RESPONSE OF LOW PLASTIC FRASER RIVER SILT............................................................................. 4134
Dharma Wijewickreme
1660 EVALUATION OF LIQUEFACTION POTENTIAL BY SIMPLIFIED METHOD WITH PROBABILISTIC
GROUND ACCELERATIONS .................................................................................................................................................................. 4144
W. D. Liam Finn, Adrian Wightman
1663 PERFORMANCE-BASED LIQUEFACTION HAZARD EVALUATION ................................................................................. 4154
Steve Kramer, Yi-Min Huang
1784 IN SITU LIQUEFACTION TESTING USING SEQUENTIAL DETONATION OF EXPLOSIVES...................................... 4164
Blair Gohl, Todd Martin, John Sully
SOCIO-ECONOMIC ISSUES OF PUBLIC AND COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS
1683 URBAN EARTHQUAKES AND BUSINESSES IN NEW ZEALAND: LEARNING FROM THE 2007
GISBORNE EARTHQUAKE ..................................................................................................................................................................... 4175
Felicity Powell, Abigail Harding, Vince Dravitzki
964 DEVELOPMENT OF SEISMIC RISK ASSESSMENT POLICIES FOR PUBLIC/PRIVATE
STAKEHOLDERS ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 4185
Tom Stevens, Dan Carson
1635 COST SAVINGS FROM IMPROVED SEISMIC EVALUATION, A CASE STUDY............................................................... 4195
Jeff Soulages, M. Sinclair, Michael Braund
802 A CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF DESIGN REVIEW FOR SEISMIC ISOLATED BUILDINGS ........................................ 4205
Keri Ryan, Lucy Arendt, Desiray Larsen
VOLUME 6
118 RETHINKING THE PUBLIC BUILDING AS POST DISASTER SHELTERS - IN THE CONTEXT OF OLD
DHAKA ......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 4215
M. A. Ansary, M. Y. Reja, I. Jahan
496 SEISMIC TESTING OF STEEL BRACED FRAMES WITH ALUMINUM SHEAR YIELDING DAMPERS ...................... 4225
Durgesh C. Rai, Praveen K. Annam
METALLIC YIELDING DAMPING SYSTEMS
595 CAST STEEL YIELDING FUSE FOR CONCENTRICALLY BRACED FRAMES .................................................................. 4235
Michael Gray, Constantin Christopoulos, Jeffrey Packer
210 A THERMOPLASTIC DAMAGE MODEL FOR METALLIC ENERGY DISSIPATION DEVICES..................................... 4245
Gary Dargush, Dongkeon Kim, Cemal Basaran
1401 CELLULAR-SOLID SHEAR WALLS UNDER SEISMIC EXCITATIONS.............................................................................. 4255
Panos Tsopelas, Liliang Chen
1640 FEASIBILITY STUDY OF A SEISMIC DAMAGE-RESISTANT SYSTEM FOR MODULAR STEEL
STRUCTURES ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 4265
John Jing, Charles Clifton, John Butterworth
1185 SHAKING TABLE TESTING OF A POST-TENSIONED TENDON FRAME RETROFITTED WITH
METALLIC SHEAR PANEL DISSIPATOR ........................................................................................................................................... 4275
Mobin Ojaghi, Matt Dietz, Olafur Oddbjornsson, Colin Taylor, Martin Williams, Tony Blakeborough
SPECIAL SESSION: SMIS/EERI WORKSHOP ON HOSPITALS AND NATURAL HAZARDS
1705 THE ROLE OF MODERN TECHNOLOGIES TO SAFEGUARD HOSPITALS DURING EARTHQUAKES ................... 4285
Arturo Tena-Colunga, Omar Villegas-Jiménez
1708 VULNERABILITY AND SEISMIC RISK: CONSIDERATIONS FOR CALIFORNIA HOSPITALS................................... 4295
Mary Comerio
1712 SEISMIC, TSUNAMI AND HURRICANE RISK OF HOSPITALS IN MEXICO .................................................................... 4303
Eduardo Reinoso, Miguel Jaimes, Mario Ordaz
1731 SMIS-EERI WORKSHOP ON SAFE HOSPITAL UNDER NATURAL HAZARDS................................................................ 4313
Amador Teran-Gilmore, James Jirsa
NEAR FAULT EFFECTS
1403 SIMULATION OF EARTHQUAKE MOTION AT NEAR FIELD REGION OF THE PAST DISASTROUS
EARTHQUAKES ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 4321
Masumitsu Kuse, Masata Sugito, Shinji Kawade
467 EVALUATION OF HANGING WALL EFFECTS ON GROUND MOTION ATTENUATION
RELATIONSHIP CORRECTING THE SITE EFFECTS...................................................................................................................... 4331
Hongjun Si, Hideaki Tsutsumi, Saburoh Midorikawa
596 DAMPING COEFFICIENTS FOR THE SINGLE-DEGREE-OF-FREEDOM (SDOF) SYSTEM SUBJECTED
TO NEAR-FAULT SEISMIC EXCITATIONS........................................................................................................................................ 4341
George Mavroeidis, Derek Hubbard
512 PREDICTION OF MW=7 EARTHQUAKE IN TEHRAN, USING EMPIRICAL GREEN FUNCTIONS................................ 4351
Ali Golara, Hossein Kayhani, Roohollah Ahmadyjazany
528 PREDICTION OF MW=6.2 KOJOOR EARTHQUAKE IN NORTH OF IRAN, USING EMPIRICAL GREEN
FUNCTIONS................................................................................................................................................................................................. 4361
Roohollah Ahmady Jazany, Ali Golara, Hossein Kayhani
4TH INT’L TSUNAMI SYMPOSIUM: CHILE AND HAITI EARTHQUAKE TSUNAMI IMPACTS/NUMERICAL
MODELING
1852 THE STUDY OF INDIAN OCEAN TSUNAMI 26 DECEMBER 2004 ; ANALYSIS OF NATURE OF
SEISMIC SOURCE FOR THE EARTHQUAKE .................................................................................................................................... 4371
Raissa Mazova, Leopold Lobkovsky, Broneslav Kisel'Man, L. Kataeva
1856 DISCRETIZED GLOBAL OPERATORS AND ALL-SOURCE GREEN’S FUNCTIONS OF SHALLOW
WATER EQUATIONS FOR REAL-TIME SIMULATIONS OF TSUNAMI ARRIVALS ............................................................... 4381
Zhigang Xu
1842 GRAIN-SIZE AND THIN SECTION CHARACTERISTICS OF TSUNAMI SEDIMENTS FROM KHAO
LAK, THAILAND........................................................................................................................................................................................ 4392
Chanchai Srisutam, Jean-Frank Wagner
SEISMIC PERFORMANCE OF BRIDGES 3
700 INELASTIC WEB CRUSHING CAPACITY OF HIGH-STRENGTH-CONCRETE STRUCTURAL WALLS .................... 4402
Rigoberto Burgueno, Xuejian Liu, Eric Hines
105 CYCLIC PERFORMANCE OF SHEAR-CRITICAL REINFORCED CONCRETE BEAMS RETROFITTED
WITH CARBON FRP.................................................................................................................................................................................. 4412
Michael A. Colalillo, Shamim A. Sheikh
774 SEISMIC VULNERABILITY EVALUATION OF HIGHWAY BRIDGES IN QUEBEC USING FRAGILITY
CURVES........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 4422
Patrick Paultre, Danusa Haick Tavares, Nathalie Roy, Jamie Padgett
1599 SEISMIC BEHAVIOUR OF RECTANGULAR R/C BRIDGE COLUMNS UNDER BIDIRECTIONAL
EARTHQUAKE COMPONENTS ............................................................................................................................................................. 4432
Amar Khaled, Bruno Massicotte, Robert Tremblay
343 THE IMPACT OF FREEZING WINTER TEMPERATURES ON SEISMIC RESPONSE OF BRIDGE
COLUMNS.................................................................................................................................................................................................... 4442
Liam Wotherspoon, Sri Sritharan, Michael Pender
875 QUASI-STATIC AND PSEUDO-DYNAMIC TESTING OF ROCKING SPREAD FOOTINGS FOR
BRIDGES ...................................................................................................................................................................................................... 4452
Hsiao-Hui Hung, Kuo-Chun Chang, Kuang-Yen Liu, Hsiu-Chun Wang
SPECIAL SESSION: RC WALL SYSTEMS – STATE OF THE ART AND PRACTICE – PART II: LOW-RISE
WALL AND COUPLING BEAM TESTING AND MODELING
826 SEISMIC BEHAVIOR AND MODELING OF FLAT-PLATE GRAVITY FRAMING IN TALL BUILDINGS .................... 4462
Jack Moehle, Tony Yang, Gabriel Hurtado
1465 EXPERIMENTAL AND ANALYTICAL ASSESSMENT OF SHEARCONTROLLED WALL RESPONSES .................... 4472
Leonardo M. Massone, Kutay Orakcal, John W. Wallace
786 SHEAR STRENGTH AND DRIFT CAPACITY OF HIGH-PERFORMACE FIBER REINFORCED
CONCRETE LOW-RISE WALLS SUBJECTED TO DISPLACEMENT REVERSALS.................................................................. 4482
Adamantia Athanasopoulou, Gustavo Parra-Montesinos
1575 TESTING AND MODELING OF DIAGONALLY REINFORCED CONCRETE COUPLING BEAMS .............................. 4492
David Naish, John Wallace
684 SEISMIC DETAILING AND BEHAVIOR OF COUPLED-WALL SYSTEMS WITH HIGHPERFORMANCE FIBER-REINFORCED CONCRETE....................................................................................................................... 4502
Remy Lequesne, James Wight, Gustavo Parra-Montesinos
1164 VERTICAL REINFORCEMENT REQUIRED IN SQUAT CONCRETE SHEAR WALLS ................................................... 4512
Perry Adebar, Afshin Esfandiari
SEISMIC PERFORMANCE SYSTEMS
259 EFFECTS OF FIRE FOLLOWING EARTHQUAKE ON STEEL MOMENT RESISTING COVERED
VERSUS UNCOVERED STRUCTURES ................................................................................................................................................. 4521
Elnaz Peyghaleh, Masoud Ziaei, Mohammad Reza Zolfaghari
309 SEISMIC RESPONSE OF CODE-DESIGNED MEDIUM-RISE SLENDER, MOMENT-RESISTING
FRAME STEEL BUILDINGS IN SOFT SOILS ...................................................................................................................................... 4532
Arturo Tena-Colunga
330 SEISMIC BEHAVIOR OF CODE-DESIGNED STEEL MOMENT RESISTING CONCENTRICALLY
BRACED FRAMES (MRCBFS) IN SOFT SOILS................................................................................................................................... 4542
Edgar Tapia, Arturo Tena-Colunga
800 SHAKEOUT 2008: TALL STEEL MOMENT FRAME BUILDING RESPONSE ...................................................................... 4552
Swaminathan Krishnan, Matthew Muto
808 NONLINEAR TIME-HISTORY ANALYSIS OF A POWER BOILER SUPPORT STRUCTURE UNDER
EARTHQUAKE LOADING ....................................................................................................................................................................... 4561
Ernesto Cruz, Rodrigo Garcia, Dania Valdivia
1087 DEVELOPMENT OF A RECENTERING STEEL PLATE SHEAR WALL AND ADDRESSING CRITICAL
STEEL PLATE SHEAR WALL RESEARCH NEEDS........................................................................................................................... 4571
Patricia Clayton, Jeffrey Berman, Laura Lowes, Michel Bruneau, Larry Fahnestock, Keh-Chyuan Tsai
723 EFFECTS OF LONG-DURATION EARTHQUAKES ON BUILDING SAFETY IN ALASKA - A CASE
STUDY........................................................................................................................................................................................................... 4581
He Liu, Toshifumi Kono
SPECIAL SESSION: SCENARIOS WITH PLANNING, RESPONSE, AND RECOVERY
1039 PROMOTING THE DEVELOPMENT AND USES OF EARTHQUAKE SCENARIOS ......................................................... 4591
Ivan Wong, Marjorie Greene, Susan Tubbesing, Elizabeth Lemersal
1554 DEVELOPMENT OF EARTHQUAKE LOSS SCENARIOS FOR TWO MEDITERRANEAN CITIES .............................. 4601
A Kappos, G Panagopoulos, A Sextos, K. Stylianidis, V Papanikolaou, L Kouris, C. Panagiotopoulos, E. D. Goutzika
1815 DEVELOPING AND IMPLEMENTING SHAKEMAP SCENARIOS USING HAZUS-MH .................................................. 4611
Douglas Bausch, Jesse Rozelle, Sean McNabb, David Wald
73 EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE SCENARIOS FOR URBAN AREAS................................................................................................... 4621
Atilla Ansal, Asli Kurtulus, Gokce Tonuk
SPECIAL SESSION: SEISMIC RISK REDUCTION OF NONSTRUCTURAL BUILDING COMPONENTS 1
540 CODE REQUIREMENTS FOR IMPROVED SEISMIC PROTECTION OF NONSTRUCTURAL
COMPONENTS IN THE UNITED STATES ........................................................................................................................................... 4630
Robert Bachman
147 CURRENT CODE REQUIREMENTS AND QUALIFICATION TEST STANDARD DEVELOPMENT FOR
SUSPENDED CEILINGS............................................................................................................................................................................ 4640
Amir Gilani, Shakhzod Takirov, Robert Bachman
1196 CURRENT PRACTICES AND CODE REQUIREMENTS FOR BUILDING SYSTEMS SEISMIC
RESTRAINTS............................................................................................................................................................................................... 4650
Karl Peterman
480 FRAGILITY OF NON-STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS FOR FEMA BENEFIT COST ANALYSIS .................................... 4660
John Eidinger
1161 NEED FOR OBJECTIVE TEST STANDARDS FOR SIMPLIFYING CODE COMPLIANCE AND
VERIFICATION .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 4670
Philip Caldwell, Jeffery Gatscher
1237 ASSESSMENT OF THE NATIONAL BUILDING CODE OF CANADA SEISMIC DESIGN
REQUIREMENTS FOR OPERATIONAL AND FUNCTIONAL COMPONENTS USING FLOOR RESPONSE
SPECTRA...................................................................................................................................................................................................... 4680
Murat Saatcioglu, Mohammad Shooshtari, Simon Foo, Nove Naumoski
SOCIAL SCIENTIFIC PERSPECTIVES ON SEISMIC AWARENESS AND RISK MANAGEMENT
1057 SYSTEMIC UNCERTAINTIES AND DECISION SUPPORT APPLICATIONS IN REGIONAL SEISMIC
LOSS ANALYSES........................................................................................................................................................................................ 4690
Joshua Steelman, Jerome Hajjar
163 EARTHQUAKE RISK PERCEPTION AMONG STAKE-HOLDERS IN MUMBAI, INDIA................................................... 4700
Ravi Sinha, Dilip Chaudhari, Vaibhav Desai, Sagar Rai
1604 DIFFUSING SEISMIC SAFETY ...................................................................................................................................................... 4709
Janise Rodgers, Veronica Cedillos, L. Thomas Tobin, Brian Tucker, Hari Kumar
1014 SEISMIC RISK REDUCTION IN VENEZUELAN SCHOOLS................................................................................................... 4719
Oscar López, Ángelo Marinilli, , Ricardo Bonilla, Norberto Fernández, Jean Domínguez, Gustavo Coronel, Denis Rodriguez,
Esteban Tenreiro, Ramon Vielma
590 SEISMIC EVALUATION OF SCHOOL BUILDINGS IN VENEZUELA.................................................................................... 4729
A. Marinilli, N. Fernandez, O. A. Lopez, G. Coronel
ADVANCED DAMPING SYSTEMS I
598 MULTIPLE GAIN-SCHEDULED FUZZY-CONTROLLED MAGNETORHEOLOGICAL DAMPERS FOR
VIBRATION REDUCTION OF MULTI-DEGREE-OF-FREEDOM STRUCTURES....................................................................... 4739
Claudia Mara Dias Wilson
939 EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION OF STEEL MRF PERFORMANCE WITH LARGE SCALE PASSIVE
MAGNETO-RHEOLOGICAL DAMPERS FOR SEISMIC HAZARD MITIGATION USING REAL-TIME
HYBRID SIMULATION............................................................................................................................................................................. 4749
Cheng Chen, James Ricles, Richard Sause, Theodore Karavasilis
1074 DEVELOPMENT OF A LARGE-SCALE MR DAMPER MODEL FOR SEISMIC HAZARD MITIGATION
ASSESSMENT OF STRUCTURES ........................................................................................................................................................... 4759
Yunbyeong Chae, James M. Ricles, Richard Sause
32 DESIGN OF OPTIMUM TMD SYSTEMS FOR SDOF AND MDOF STRUCTURES SUBJECTED TO
EARTHQUAKE BASE EXCITATIONS .................................................................................................................................................. 4769
Abdulsalam Al-Janabi, Mohamed Al-Taweel
255 COUPLED TUNED MASS DAMPERS FOR THE MODAL CONTROL OF ONEWAY ASYMMETRIC
BUILDINGS.................................................................................................................................................................................................. 4779
Jui-Liang Lin, Keh-Chyuan Tsai
139 VISCOUS DAMPERS AT EXPANSION JOINTS FOR SEISMIC PROTECTION OF BUILDINGS ..................................... 4789
I. Y. S. Salem, Maria Feng
EARTHQUAKE AND MULTIHAZARD DESIGN
948 COMPARISON OF A NEW PHYSICS-BASED SIMULATION MODEL AND THE HAMADA EQUATIONS
IN DETERMINING POST-EARTHQUAKE FIRE SPREAD ............................................................................................................... 4799
Sizheng Li, Rachel Davidson, Selina Lee
749 SEISMIC RESPONSE OF A 5-MW WIND TURBINE: THE SHAKEOUT SCENARIO .......................................................... 4809
Ian Prowell, Ahmed Elgamal, Jason Jonkman
1514 ADVANCED MODELLING OF JOINTED PRECAST CONCRETE CONNECTIONS WITH UNBONDED
POST-TENSIONED PRESTRESS............................................................................................................................................................. 4819
John Mander, Geoffrey Rodgers, J Geoffrey Chase
1287 ON MULTI-HAZARD CONSIDERATIONS IN DESIGN OF STRUCTURES ......................................................................... 4829
Mohamad Saadeghvaziri, Nicholas Carlson
1402 EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF THE PROGRESSIVE COLLAPSE OF A STEEL POSTTENSIONED ENERGY DISSIPATING FRAME ................................................................................................................................... 4839
Antonios Tsitos, Gilberto Mosqueda, Andre Filiatrault, Andrei Reinhorn
1082 PROGRESSIVE COLLAPSE RESPONSE OF BUILDINGS AND MULTI HAZARD MITIGATION................................. 4849
Halil Sezen, Brian Song, Kevin Giriunas
STRONG MOTION DATA AND USE
222 GENERATING AN ARTIFICIAL GROUND MOTION USING (RBF) NEURAL NETWORK AND
WAVELET ANALYSIS .............................................................................................................................................................................. 4859
Gholamreza Ghodrati Amiri, Azita Asadi
697 A DATABASE OF EASTERN NORTH AMERICA GROUND MOTIONS FOR THE NEXT GENERATION
ATTENUATION EAST PROJECT ........................................................................................................................................................... 4868
Chris Cramer, Jerome Kutliroff, Donny Dangkua
358 BASELINE CORRECTION MADE EASIER USING AN AUTOMATED METHOD BASED ON THE
WAVELET TRANSFORM......................................................................................................................................................................... 4877
Andrew Chanerley, Nicholas Alexander, Benedikt Halldorson, Ragnar Sigbjornsson, Roy Perryman
920 SELECTING AND SCALING OF REAL ACCELEROGRAMS TO REDUCE THE SCATTER IN
DYNAMIC RESPONSE .............................................................................................................................................................................. 4887
Bekir Özer Ay, Sinan Akkar
1115 TIME VS. FREQUENCY DOMAIN GROUND MOTION MODIFICATION: EFFECTS ON SITE
RESPONSE ANALYSES AND SEISMIC DISPLACEMENTS ............................................................................................................. 4897
Dimitrios Zekkos, Stephanie Guisbert, Ahmed Nisar
1270 A GROUND MOTION SELECTION AND MODIFICATION METHOD PRESERVING
CHARACTERISTICS AND ALEATORY VARIABLITY OF SCENARIO EARTHQUAKES ....................................................... 4907
Gang Wang
4TH INT’L TSUNAMI SYMPOSIUM: TSUNAMI PREPAREDNESS – NUMERICAL MODELING
1854 AN EVALUATION OF INFRASTRUCTURE FOR TSUNAMI EVACUATION IN PADANG, WEST
SUMATRA, INDONESIA ........................................................................................................................................................................... 4917
Veronica Cedillos, Nathan Canney, Gregory Deierlein, Scott Henderson, Febrin Ismail, Andi Syukri, Jason Toth, Kelly Wood
1845 LOCAL SITE CONDITIONS INFLUENCING EARTHQUAKE INTENSITIES AND SECONDARY
EFFECTS IN THE SEA OF MARMARA REGION – APPLICATION OF STANDARDIZED REMOTE
SENSING AND GIS-METHODS IN DETECTING POTENTIALLY VULNERABLE AREAS TO
EARTHQUAKES, TSUNAMIS AND OTHER HAZARDS.................................................................................................................... 4927
George Pararas-Carayannis, Barbara Theilen-Willige, Helmut Wenzel
1838 APPRAISAL OF THE 1790 ALBORAN TSUNAMI SOURCE IN THE WEST MEDITERRANEAN SEA AS
INFERRED FROM NUMERICAL MODELLING: INSIGHTS FOR THE TSUNAMI HAZARD IN ALGERIA ........................ 4937
Lubna Amir, Armando Cisternas
1847 ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS OF TSUNAMI WAVES INDUCED BY SEA FLOOR COLLAPSES ..................................... 4946
K. T. Chau
1848 ADVANCES IN PHYSICAL MODELLING OF NEARSHORE TSUNAMI WAVES AND THEIR IMPACT
USING A UNIQUE TSUNAMI GENERATOR ....................................................................................................................................... 4956
Ingrid Charvet, Tiziana Rossetto, William Allsop, Tristan Lloyd, Tristan Robinson, David Robinson
1851 A GEOMETRIC MODEL FOR PROPAGATION OF TSUNAMI WAVES .............................................................................. 4966
Swedaranyam Rajasekaran, E. Syed Mohamed
1841 METHOD OF LINES SIMULATIONS OF TSUNAMI AND UNDULAR BORE PROPAGATION IN
RIVERS ......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 4975
S. Samir, I. Nistor, J. Gottlieb, T. S. Murty, M. Al-Riffai
SEISMIC PERFORMANCE OF BRIDGES 4
539 A REVIEW OF PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS FOR BRIDGES ...................................................................................... 4983
Marc Gerin, Tuna Onur
597 CONSEQUENCE OF NON-UNIFORM SITE FOR BRIDGE RESPONSE ................................................................................. 4993
Nawawi Chouw, Hong Hao
740 PROBABILISTIC PERFORMANCE-BASED SEISMIC RISK ASSESSMENT OF CANADIAN BRIDGES A PILOT STUDY ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 5003
Charlotte Waller, David Lau
1263 SEISMIC MONITORING OF BRIDGES IN BRITISH COLUMBIA......................................................................................... 5013
Sharlie Huffman, Carlos Ventura, Martin Turek
70 AN EXTERNAL RESTRAINING SYSTEM FOR THE SEISMIC RETROFIT OF EXISTING BRIDGES ............................. 5023
S. A. Mitoulis, I. A. Tegos
1277 SEISMIC REHABILITATION OF THE HERON ROAD BRIDGE ........................................................................................... 5033
Sylvain Montminy, Jack Ajrab, Paul Bradford
NUMERICAL MODELING OF THE SEISMIC BEHAVIOR OF STEEL COMPONENTS AND SYSTEMS
327 FINITE ELEMENT INVESTIGATION AND DESIGN RECOMMENDATIONS FOR PERFORATED
STEEL PLATE SHEAR WALLS .............................................................................................................................................................. 5039
Ronny Purba, Michel Bruneau
1007 AN INNOVATIVE SEISMIC PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENT TECHNIQUE FOR STEEL BUILDING
BEAM-COLUMN CONNECTIONS ......................................................................................................................................................... 5049
Tasnim Hassan, Samiuddin Syed
VOLUME 7
1080 TORSIONAL BEHAVIOR OF STEEL BRACED FRAMES ....................................................................................................... 5059
Keri Ryan, Emrah Erduran
1107 SEISMIC DEMANDS ON THREE-STORY SCBF SYSTEMS – COMPARISON OF FIBER-BASED
MODEL AND FINITE ELEMENT-BASED MODEL ............................................................................................................................ 5069
Chui-Hsin Chen, Yuli Huang, Stephen Mahin
1493 DETECTING FAILURE EVENTS IN BUILDINGS: A NUMERICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS..................... 5079
Vanessa Heckman, Monica Kohler, Thomas Heaton
1590 EXPERIMENTAL AND NUMERICAL STUDY ON THE POTENTIAL FOR COLUMN SIZE
REDUCTION IN CAPACITY DESIGNED MULTI-STOREY BRACED STEEL FRAMES ........................................................... 5088
Charles-P. Lamarche, Robert Tremblay
SEISMIC ANALYSIS AND PERFORMANCE OF MASONRY
1144 SEISMIC FRAGILITY ASSESSMENT OF RESIDENTIAL ANCHORED BRICK VENEER WALLS............................... 5098
James Lafave, Dziugas Reneckis
84 SHAKING-TABLE TESTING OF SINGLE-STORY CLAY MASONRY VENEER WOOD-FRAME
BUILDING .................................................................................................................................................................................................... 5108
P. Benson Shing, Hussein O. Okail, Seongwoo Jo, Richard E. Klingner William M. McGinley, David McLean
525 EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF THE CYCLIC BEHAVIOUR OF UNREINFORCED MASONRY
SPANDRELS ................................................................................................................................................................................................ 5118
Alessandro Dazio, Katrin Beyer, Ahmad Abo El Ezz
1305 USE OF SMALL-SCALED BURNT CLAY BRICKS FOR SHAKE TABLE TESTS OF MASONRY
WALLS.......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 5128
Vaibhav Singhal, Durgesh Rai
188 NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION OF THE DYNAMIC AND EARTHQUAKE BEHAVIOR OF
BYZANTINE AND POST-BYZANTINE BASILICAS........................................................................................................................... 5138
George Manos, Vasilios Soulis, Olympia Felekidou, Vasiliki Matsou
466 THE USE OF NUMERICAL METHODS TO INVESTIGATE THE SEISMIC RESPONSE OF A LARGE
BLOCK MASONRY COLONNADE......................................................................................................................................................... 5148
M. R. Tabbara, G. N. Karam
SPECIAL SESSION: SOIL-STRUCTURE-ENGINEERING INTERACTION
1416 INTRODUCTION TO A NEW DESIGN PROCEDURE FOR ORDINARY BRIDGES WITH ROCKING
FOUNDATIONS........................................................................................................................................................................................... 5158
Bruce Kutter, Lijun Deng, Sashi Kunnath
957 SOIL-FOUNDATION-STRUCTURE INTERACTION EFFECTS ON MODEL BUILDINGS WITHIN A
GEOTECHNICAL CENTRIFUGE ........................................................................................................................................................... 5168
Jonathan Bray, Henry Mason, Zhiqiang Chen, Katherine Jones, Nicholas Trombetta, Tara Hutchinson, C. Bolisetti, A. S.
Whittaker, B. Y. Choy, B. L. Kutter, G. L. Fiegel
1614 COMPUTATIONAL MODELING OF SOIL-FOUNDATION STRUCTURAL SYSTEMS.................................................... 5178
Ahmed Elgamal, Linjun Yan, Jinchi Lu, Zhaohui Yang, Thomas Shantz, Joel P. Conte
1666 IMPACT OF FOUNDATION MODELING ON THE ACCURACY OF RESPONSE ANALYSIS FOR A
TALL BUILDING ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 5188
Jonathan Stewart, Salih Tileylioglu, Farzad Naeim, Arzhang Alimoradi
244 NONLINEAR SEISMIC ANALYSIS AND ASSESSMENT OF BC PLACE STADIUM............................................................ 5198
Mahmoud Rezai, Adam Patterson, Glenn Hubick
1543 EFFECT OF SOIL-STRUCTURE INTERACTION ON FORCE REDUCTION FACTORS OF R/C FRAME
STRUCTURES ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 5208
Amir Halabian, Masoomeh Erfani
SPECIAL SESSION: SEISMIC RISK REDUCTION OF NONSTRUCTURAL BUILDING
COMPONENTS 2
963 SHAKE TABLE TESTING ON MOVEABLE OFFICE PARTITIONS WITHOUT TOP RESTRAINT ................................ 5218
Ghyslaine McClure, Wen-Chun Huang, George C. Yao
1376 EXPERIMENTAL SEISMIC FRAGILITY ASSESSMENT OF LIGHT GAUGE STEEL STUDDED
GYPSUM PARTITION WALLS ............................................................................................................................................................... 5228
Rodrigo Retamales, Ryan Davies, Gilberto Mosqueda, Andre Filiatrault
744 IMPROVING THE DYNAMIC PERFORMANCE OF OFCS DURING EXTREME VIBRATION
CONDITIONS .............................................................................................................................................................................................. 5238
Hugon Juarez Garcia, Carlos E. Ventura
993 ASSESSING THE POST-EARTHQUAKE FUNCTIONALITY OF CRITICAL BUILDINGS IN
MONTREAL................................................................................................................................................................................................. 5248
Jordan Cappai, Ghyslaine McClure, Richard Shapiro, Meng Li, Guillaume Dunlop-Brière, Pierre Keller
384 THE EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF THE CONSTRUCTION METHODS FOR STONE VENEERS IN
TAIWAN ....................................................................................................................................................................................................... 5258
Fan-Ru Lin, George C. Yao, Shyh-Jiann Hwang, Chien-Chuang Tseng, Pu-Wen Weng
1319 SEISMIC PERFORMANCE OF STAIR ASSEMBLIES UNDER SEISMIC AND GRAVITY LOADS ................................ 5268
Christopher Higgins
SPECIAL SESSION: MITIGATING RISK DUE TO OLDER CONCRETE BUILDINGS
229 BEHAVIOR OF REINFORCED CONCRETE CORNER BEAM-COLUMN JOINTS WITHOUT
TRANSVERSE REINFORCEMENT........................................................................................................................................................ 5278
Sangjoon Park, Khalid M. Mosalam
1616 SEISMIC RESPONSE OF OLDER REINFORCED CONCRETE CORNER JOINTS............................................................ 5288
Jack Moehle, Wael Hassan, Sangjoon Park, Ricardo Lopez, Khalid Mosalam
1628 SHAKE TABLE TESTS ON THE COLLAPSE OF RC FRAMES SUBJECTED TO MODERATE AND
HIGH AXIAL LOADS ................................................................................................................................................................................ 5298
Soheil Yavari, S. H. Lin, Ken Elwood, Chiun-Lin Wu, Shyh-Jiann Hwang, B Bayhan, Jack Moehle
1636 EFFFECT OF LONGITUDINAL REINFORCEMENT RATIO ON THE FAILURE MECHANISM OF R/C
COLUMNS MOST VULNERABLE TO COLLAPSE ............................................................................................................................ 5308
Adolfo Matamoros, Charles Woods
1732 AXIAL FAILURE OF REINFORCED CONCRETE COLUMNS CONTAINING TIES WITH
INADEQUATE SEISMIC DETAILING................................................................................................................................................... 5319
Julio Ramirez, Kurt Henkhaus, Santiago Pujol
ADVANCED DAMPING SYSTEMS II
35 FRICTION DAMPERS FOR THE SEISMIC CONTROL OF AN UNDERGROUND PASTE PLANT IN
INDONESIA.................................................................................................................................................................................................. 5322
Andrew Sivilla, Joseph Delle Donne
385 THREE-DIMENSIONAL SHAKING TABLE TESTS ON THREE-STORY REDUCED-SCALE STEEL
ROCKING FRAMES................................................................................................................................................................................... 5332
Mitsumasa Midorikawa, Tadashi Ishihara, Tatsuya Azuhata, Shigemitsu Takai, Motoi Kanagawa, Hirotake Hori, T. Kusakari, T.
Asari
1565 SEISMIC DESIGN AND PERFORMANCE OF STEEL MRFS WITH ELASTOMERIC DAMPERS ................................. 5342
Theodore Karavasilis, Richard Sause, James Ricles
1485 THERMAL- AND STRAIN-RELATED BEHAVIOUR OF A SHAPE MEMORY ALLOY UNDER
EARTHQUAKE LOADING CONDITIONS ............................................................................................................................................ 5352
Michael Wesolowsky, John Wilson
159 ANALYSIS AND TESTING OF CABLES MADE OF CUALBE SMA......................................................................................... 5362
Maria Ofelia Moroni, J. F. Beltran, Cristian Cruz, Ricardo Herrera
1361 EXPERIMENTAL AND ANALYTICAL STUDY OF ASYMMETRIC STRUCTURES WITH DIFFERENT
VISCOUS DAMPER DISTRIBUTION..................................................................................................................................................... 5372
Mohammad Reza Mansoori, Abdol Reza Sarvghad Moghadam, Hassan Naseri
DAMAGE ASSESSMENT AND REPAIR OF BUILDINGS
49 DOWNTIME DATA ON RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS AFTER NORTHRIDGE AND LOMA PRIETA
EARTHQUAKES ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 5382
Mary Comerio, Howard Blecher
679 EARTHQUAKE GROUND MOTION INDICES FOR EARLY DAMAGE ESTIMATION OF WOODEN
HOUSES IN JAPAN .................................................................................................................................................................................... 5391
Sachie Hoshi, Yoshihisa Maruyama, Fumio Yamazaki
682 EVALUATION OF EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE IN WOOD-FRAMED STRUCTURES........................................................... 5399
Terrence Paret, John Osteraas, Kelly Cobeen, Gary Searer, Sigmund Freeman, Owen Rosenboom
415 EXPLORING BARRIERS TO MITIGATION BY HOMEOWNERS........................................................................................... 5409
Guna Selvaduray, James Lee, Crystal Paul
167 A TALE OF THREE CITIES .............................................................................................................................................................. 5419
Polat Gülkan, Beyhan Bayhan
REPAIR OF DAMAGED BUILDINGS - A DILEMMA......................................................................................................................... 5429
Gary R. Searer, Sigmund A. Freeman, Terrence F. Paret
POST-EARTHQUAKE RESPONSE AND PREPAREDNESS AND EDUCATION
387 EARTHQUAKE DISASTER EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT.............................................................. 5439
Yasamin O. Izadkhah, Mahmood Hosseini
396 FULL-SCALE, REAL-TIME BUILDING DYNAMICS LABORATORY.................................................................................... 5449
Cole McDaniel, Graham Archer
767 ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS OF REAL-TIME GROUND MOTION MONITORING.................................................... 5459
John Cassidy, Andreas Rosenberger, Garry Rogers
1420 THE USE OF DETOURS AS A MITIGATING MEASURE FOR DISASTER RISK REDUCTION OF
INTER-CITY ROAD SYSTEMS ............................................................................................................................................................... 5466
Mahdi Behniafard, Mahmood Hosseini
64 PREPARING FOR THE UNEXPECTED IN NEW YORK STATE: DEVELOPMENT OF AN
EARTHQUAKE RESPONSE PLAN TO ASSESS POTENTIAL BRIDGE DAMAGE ..................................................................... 5476
Jerome O'Connor, Sreenivas Alampalli
1610 BUILDING OCCUPANCY RESUMPTION PROGRAM FOR POSTEARTHQUAKE DAMAGE
ASSESSMENT AND RECOVERY............................................................................................................................................................ 5486
Scott M. Adan, David L. McCormick
GROUND MOTION PARAMETERS
1149 EMPIRICAL GROUND MOTION ATTENUATION RELATIONSHIPS FOR MAXIMUM
INCREMENTAL VELOCITY ................................................................................................................................................................... 5495
Jaime Guaman, David Kirkner, Yahya Kurama
46 ESTIMATION OF CUMULATIVE ABSOLUTE VELOCITY (CAV) FROM A RECENTLY COMPILED
STRONG GROUND-MOTION DATABASE FOR TURKEY ............................................................................................................... 5505
Sinan Akkar, Polat Gülkan
1004 GROUND MOTION PREDICTION EQUATIONS FOR CUMULATIVE ABSOLUTE VELOCITY (CAV)
USING THE PEER-NGA STRONG MOTION DATABASE................................................................................................................. 5515
Kenneth Campbell, Yousef Bozorgnia
568 EXTENDING AND TESTING GRAIZER-KALKAN GROUND MOTION ATTENUATION MODEL
BASED ON ATLAS DATABASE OF SHALLOW CRUSTAL EVENTS ............................................................................................ 5525
Vladimir Graizer, Erol Kalkan, Kuo-Wan Lin
861 PREDICTION OF HORIZONTAL RESPONSE SPECTRA OF STRONG GROUND MOTIONS IN IRAN
AND ITS REGIONS..................................................................................................................................................................................... 5535
Hossein Sadeghi, Ahmad Shooshtari, Mohammad Jaladat
762 BAYESIAN INVERSION OF MICROTREMOR ARRAY DISPERSION DATA FOR VS STRUCTURE ON
THE FRASER RIVER DELTA, BRITISH COLUMBIA ....................................................................................................................... 5545
Sheri Molnar, Stan Dosso, John Cassidy
SEISMIC PERFORMANCE OF BRIDGES 5
1413 SEISMIC BEHAVIOR OF SEGMENTED BENTS........................................................................................................................ 5553
Mohamed Elgawady, Ahmad Sha'Lan, Haitham Dawood
1834 BRIDGE BEARING FUSE SYSTEMS FOR REGIONS WITH HIGHMAGNITUDE EARTHQUAKES AT
LONG RECURRENCE INTERVALS ...................................................................................................................................................... 5563
E. T. Filipov, J. S. Steelman, J. F. Hajjar, J. M. Lafave, L. A. Fahnestock
1542 SEISMIC EVALUATION OF SKEW BRIDGE WITH FRICTION TYPE RUBBER BEARINGS EXPERIMENTS AND CASE STUDIES ................................................................................................................................................... 5573
Chih-Hung Lu, Kuo-Chun Chang, Kuang-Yen Liu, Wei-Chin Cheng
1302 STRUCTURAL FUSE CONCEPT FOR BRIDGES....................................................................................................................... 5583
Michel Bruneau, Samer El-Bahey
1499 SEISMIC PERFORMANCE OF PRECAST SEGMENTAL BRIDGES..................................................................................... 5594
Petros Sideris, Myrto Anagnostopoulou, Amjad Aref, Andre Filiatrault
1249 DYNAMICS OF A POST-TENSIONED ROCKING BLOCK ..................................................................................................... 5604
Bozidar Stojadinovic, Clement Barthes, Matias Hube
PERFORMANCE-BASED PLASTIC DESIGN
344 PERFORMANCE BASED PLASTIC DESIGN (PBPD) OF RC SPECIAL MOMENT FRAME
STRUCTURES ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 5614
Wen-Cheng Liao, Subhash C. Goel
523 AN ENERGY SPECTRUM METHOD FOR SEISMIC EVALUATION OF STRUCTURES ................................................... 5624
Subhash C. Goel, Wen-Cheng Liao, Mohammad Bayat, Sutat Leelataviwat
591 PERFORMANCE-BASED PLASTIC DESIGN METHOD FOR BUCKLING RESTRAINED BRACED
FRAMES ....................................................................................................................................................................................................... 5634
Shih-Ho Chao, Dipti Ranjan Sahoo
1131 FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF PERFORMANCE-BASED PLASTIC DESIGN METHOD FOR
CONCENTERICALLY BRACED FRAMES........................................................................................................................................... 5644
M. Reza Bayat, Shih-Ho Chao, Subhash C. Goel
487 PERFORMANCE-BASED DESIGN APPROACH FOR DUCTILE KNEEBRACED MOMENT FRAMES.......................... 5654
Sutat Leelataviwat, Jarun Srechai, Bunyarit Suksen, Pennung Warnitchai
SEISMIC VULNERABILITY OF MASONRY STRUCTURES
1494 DEVELOPMENT OF A GLOBAL DESIGN GUIDELINE FOR CONFINED MASONRY BUILDINGS IN
REGIONS OF HIGH SEISMIC RISK ...................................................................................................................................................... 5664
Svetlana Brzev, Roberto Meli
703 SIMPLIFIED VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT OF HISTORICAL CITY CORES - THE EXAMPLE OF
THE CITY OF XANTHI ............................................................................................................................................................................. 5674
Dimitrios Vamvatsikos, Stavroula Pantazopoulou
967 FRAGILITY FUNCTIONS FOR SEISMIC RISK IN REGIONS WITH MODERATE SEISMICITY ................................... 5684
Marcelo Oropeza, Clotaire Michel, Pierino Lestuzzi
252 USE OF NONLINEAR STATIC ANALYSIS FOR THE DISPLACEMENT-BASED ASSESSMENT OF
CONFINED MASONRY BUILDINGS ..................................................................................................................................................... 5694
Amador Teran-Gilmore, Jorge Ruiz-Garcia, Oscar Zuñiga-Cuevas
863 UNSYMMETRIC-PLAN MASONRY BUILDINGS: PUSHOVER VS NONLINEAR DYNAMIC ANALYSIS ..................... 5704
Giuseppe Faella, Aldo Giordano, Mariateresa Guadagnuolo
418 EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON DYNAMIC BEHAVIOR OF TIMBER ROOF MASONRY HOUSE
MODELS RETROFITTED BY PP-BAND MESHES ............................................................................................................................. 5714
Navaratnarajah Sathiparan, Paola Mayorca, Kimiro Meguro
SOILS, FOUNDATION AND STABILITY
661 THREE DIMENSIONAL NUMERICAL MODEL FOR NONLINEAR EARTHQUAKE RESPONSE OF
CLAY SLOPES ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 5724
Mahdi Taiebat, Amir Kaynia, P. Dimmock, M. Senders
1177 THE INFLUENCE OF NEAR-FAULT RUPTURE DIRECTIVITY ON LIQUEFACTION ................................................... 5734
Russell Green, Jongwon Lee
1350 ANALYSIS OF SOIL NAILED WALLS UNDER DYNAMIC EXCITATIONS USING FINITE
DIFFERENCE METHOD........................................................................................................................................................................... 5745
Amir Halabian, Ali M. Sheikhbahaei, S. Hamid Hashemolhosseini
291 PROCEDURE TO EVALUATE LIQUEFACTION-INDUCED SETTLEMENT BASED ON SHEAR WAVE
VELOCITY................................................................................................................................................................................................... 5755
Fred Yi
1545 SHAKE TABLE STUDY OF SOIL- FOUNDATION-STRUCTURE INTERACTION (SFSI) EFFECTS IN
ROCKING AND HORIZONTAL MOTIONS OF THE BUILDING STRUCTURES........................................................................ 5765
Naghdali Hosseinzadeh
198 DYNAMIC OCEAN WATER AND BACKFILL PORE WATER PRESSURES AGAINST A VERTICAL
CAISSON DURING 2003 TOKACHI-OKI EARTHQUAKE ................................................................................................................ 5773
Isao Ishibashi, Samip Pant
SEISMIC ANALYSIS OF CONCRETE STRUCTURES
123 NONLINEAR FIBER-BASED ANALYSIS OF RECTANGULAR CONCRETE WALLS DESIGNED WITH
DIFFERENT ANCHORAGE DETAILS................................................................................................................................................... 5783
Sri Sritharan, Sriram Aaleti
831 CONSTITUTUIVE MODEL FOR BUCKLING OF TRANSVERSALLY RESTRAINED LONGITUDINAL
BARS IN REINFORCED CONCRETE COLUMNS .............................................................................................................................. 5793
Mohamed Talaat, Khalid Mosalam
1608 ANALYSIS OF THE CYCLIC BEHAVIOR OF MASONRY-INFILLED RC FRAMES USING THE
FINITE ELEMENT METHOD.................................................................................................................................................................. 5805
Ioannis Koutromanos, Andreas Stavridis, P. Benson Shing
1454 INELASTIC MODELING OF RC STRUCTURAL WALLS ....................................................................................................... 5815
Mohamed Elnady, Ahmed Ghobarah
289 NONLIN-EQT: AN INTERACTIVE SOFTWARE TOOL FOR EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING
EDUCATION................................................................................................................................................................................................ 5825
Finley Charney, Adam Bowland, Rohan Talwalkar, Brian Bamgrover
404 CRITICAL ASPECTS OF FINITE ELEMENT MODELING OF RC STRUCTURES FOR SEISMIC
PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT............................................................................................................................................................. 5835
Ufuk Yazgan, Alessandro Dazio
SEISMIC RISK REDUCTION OF NONSTRUCTURAL BUILDING COMPONENTS 3
426 FLOOR ACCELERATION DEMAND IN REINFORCED CONCRETE FRAME STRUCTURES WITH
MASONRY INFILL WALLS ..................................................................................................................................................................... 5845
Fabrizio Mollaioli, Andrea Lucchini, Silvia Bruno, Adriano De Sortis, Paolo Bazzurro
434 A PROPOSED FRAMEWORK FOR EFFICIENT DELIVERY OF SEISMIC RESTRAINT DESIGNS AND
ITS POTENTIAL COST SAVINGS .......................................................................................................................................................... 5855
Brea Williams, Richard Levesque, Tom Stevens, Jason Kitchen
910 EVALUATION OF SEISMIC DAMAGE RISK OF ELEVATOR ROPE IN HIGHRISE BUILDING BASED
ON CCQC METHOD .................................................................................................................................................................................. 5865
Masayuki Kohiyama, Tetsuya Kita, Asami Mitsui
978 STRUCTURAL AND NON-STRUCTURAL SEISMIC VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENT FOR SCHOOLS
AND HOSPITALS BASED ON QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEYS: CASE STUDIES IN CENTRAL AMERICA
AND INDIA................................................................................................................................................................................................... 5875
Dominik H. Lang, Maria Isabella Verbicaro, Yogendra Singh, J. S. R. Prasad, David Wong Diaz, Manuel Gutierrez
1109 PROBABILISTIC SEISMIC DEMAND EVALUATION OF ACCELERATIONSENSITIVE
NONSTRUCTURAL COMPONENTS MOUNTED ON STRUCTURAL WALL SYSTEMS AND FRAME
STRUCTURES ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 5885
Ricardo Medina, Joshua Clayton
1252 REPAIR COST ANALYSIS OF MULTISTORY BUILDINGS WITH PRECAST CONCRETE CLADDING .................... 5895
Jeffrey Hunt, Bozidar Stojadinovic
VOLUME 8
SPECIAL SESSION: MITIGATING RISK DUE TO OLDER CONCRETE BUILDINGS PANEL
48 DEVELOPMENT OF A CONCRETE BUILDING INVENTORY: LOS ANGELES CASE STUDY FOR THE
ANALYSIS OF COLLAPSE RISK............................................................................................................................................................ 5905
Thalia Anagnos, Mary Comerio, Christine Goulet, Judith Steele, Jonathan Stewart
1609 BUILDING A VOLUNTEER ENGINEERING NETWORK: THE EXPERIENCE OF THE CONCRETE
COALITION................................................................................................................................................................................................. 5915
Craig Comartin, David McCormick, David Bonowitz, Marjorie Greene
1482 MITIGATING RISK OF OLDER CONCRETE BUILDINGS - POLICY AND IMPLEMENTATION ................................ 5924
Mary Comerio, Peter May, William Holmes, Craig Comartin, Lucy Arendt, Carlos Ventura
STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING
1406 DEVELOPMENT OF FRAGILITY FUNCTIONS FOR STEEL MOMENT FRAMES USING WAVELET
BASED DAMAGE SENSITIVE FEATURES FROM STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING ................................................. 5929
Hae Young Noh, Dimitrios Lignos, Krishnan Nair, Anne Kiremidjian
1523 HEALTH MONITORING OF NATIONAL HERITAGE FIVE STORY WOOD PAGODA BY IMAGE
PROCESSING AND VIBROMETERS. .................................................................................................................................................... 5939
Tadashi Mikoshiba, Chikahiro Minowa, Yasushi Niitsu, Toshikazu Hanazato
1326 DAMAGE EVOLUTION ASSESSMENT OF A 6-STORY MASONRY BUILDING DURING
AFTERSHOCKS AFTER WENCHUAN EARTHQUAKE.................................................................................................................... 5949
Chenxi Mao, Hui Li, Wensong Zhou, Jinping Ou
1186 EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION OF A BIO-INSPIRED STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING
SYSTEM........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 5959
Tzu Kang Lin, Kuo-Chun Chang, Anne Kiremidjian
1372 RESIDUAL DRIFT ESTIMATION USING A SINGLE ROTATION MEASUREMENT FOR SEISMIC
HEALTH MONITORING OF CONCRETE COLUMNS ...................................................................................................................... 5971
A. Cheung, A. S. Kiremedjian
SHAKING AND DAMAGE
125 GROUND MOTION STUDY FOR AN ESSENTIAL FACILITY.................................................................................................. 5981
Siva Sivathasan
610 INFLUENCE OF GROUND MOTION SELECTION AND SCALING ON SESMIC RESPONSE OF
BUILDINGS.................................................................................................................................................................................................. 5991
Sanda Koboevic, Kim Guilini-Charette, Pierre X. Castonguay, Robert Tremblay
735 SYNTHETIC EARTHQUAKE GROUND MOTIONS FOR SPECIFIED SEISMIC DESIGN SCENARIO........................... 6001
Sanaz Rezaeian, Armen Der Kiureghian
1337 DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF GROUND-MOTION ATTENUATION RELATIONSHIP FOR
LARGE-MAGNITUDE SUBDUCTION EARTHQUAKES................................................................................................................... 6011
Kusnowidjaja Megawati, Tso-Chien Pan
1767 INFLUENCE OF SPECTRAL NONSTATIONARITY ON STRUCTURAL DAMAGE.......................................................... 6021
Smitha Koduru
475 STOCHASTIC SIMULATION OF EARTHQUAKE GROUND MOTION FOOTPRINTS CONSTRAINED
BY RECORDED DATA AND MMI INTENSITY MAPS....................................................................................................................... 6031
Mehrdad Mahdyiar, Boyko Dodov, Bingming Shen-Tu, Khosrow Shabestari, Jay Guin, Yufang Rong
POSTER SESSIONS
SEISMIC DESIGN AND PERFORMANCE OF STEEL STRUCTURES
24 SEISMIC BEHAVIOR OF BRB FRAMES UNDER NEAR FAULT EXCITATIONS ................................................................. 6041
Seyed Mehdi Zahrai, Davoud Vafaei, Mohammad Ebrahim Shemshadian
45 NONLINEAR BEHAVIOUR OF DIAGONALLY STIFFENED STEEL PLATE SHEAR WALLS........................................... 6052
Erfan Alavi, Fariborz Nateghi
503 ANALYTICAL MODELING OF PANEL ZONE SEISMIC BEHAVIOR FOR DIFFERENT CONTINUITY
PLATE FORMATION BASED ON SAC96 EXPERIMENTS ............................................................................................................... 6062
Roohollah Ahmady Jazany, Hossein Kayhani, Ali Golara
519 SEISMIC PERFORMANCE OF REDUCED BEAM SECTION MOMENT FRAMES CONSIDERING
RECORD-TO-RECORD UNCERTAINTIES .......................................................................................................................................... 6072
Seyed Alireza Jalali, Mehdi Banazadeh, Ali Abolmaali
1063 EQUIVALENT SHEAR LINK MODELING AND PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF COLD FORMED
STEEL STRUCTURES UNDER EARTHQUAKE LOADING ............................................................................................................. 6082
Nouredine Bourahla, Tahar Boukhamacha, Ahmed Attar, Naouel Allal
1370 ENERGY-BASED DAMAGE INDEX AND CYCLIC DRIFT CAPACITY FOR STEEL STRUCTURES ........................... 6092
Eden Bojorquez, Alfredo Reyes-Salazar, Amador Teran-Gilmore, Sonia Ruiz
1188 SEISMIC BEHAVIOR OF HIGH-PERFORMANCE FIBER-REINFORCED CONCRETE BRIDGE PIERS.................... 6102
Ady Aviram, Bozidar Stojadinovic, Gustavo Parra-Montesinos
843 LOAD BEARING CAPACITIES OF STEEL BRIDGE PIERS SUBJECTED TO LONG-DURATION TIME
MOTIONS..................................................................................................................................................................................................... 6112
Takeshi Kitahara, Kentaro Tanaka, Takashi Yamaguchi
1444 DEVELOPMENT OF BRIDGE REPAIR ESTIMATE MODELS FOR USE IN BRIDGE FRAGILITY
CURVES........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 6120
Jazalyn Dukes, Reginald Desroches
68 INELASTIC SEISMIC DISPLACEMENTS OF PILE SUPPORTED BRIDGES LOCATED IN EASTERN
NORTH AMERICA..................................................................................................................................................................................... 6129
Dominic Gagnon, Pierre Léger, Robert Tremblay, Vincent Latendresse
1099 IMPROVEMENT IN SEISMIC CONFIGURATION OF SLENDER REINFORCED CONCRETE WALL
PIERS ON ISOLATED FOOTINGS ......................................................................................................................................................... 6139
Kaustubh Dasgupta, C. V. R. Murty
SEISMIC DESIGN AND PERFORMANCE OF BRIDGES
1142 CONCRETE FILLED STEEL BRIDGE PIERS FOR IMPROVED SEISMIC PERFORMANCE AND
RAPID CONSTRUCTION.......................................................................................................................................................................... 6149
Charles Roeder, Dawn Lehman
438 EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF FRP RC SUB-ASSEMBLAGE WITH SMA BAR IN THE
PLASTIC HINGE REGION OF BEAM ................................................................................................................................................... 6159
M. Shahria Alam, Moncef Nehdi, Maged A. Youssef
620 IMPROVED EFFECTIVE DAMPING EQUATION FOR EQUIVALENT LINEAR ANALYSIS OF
SEISMIC-ISOLATED BRIDGES .............................................................................................................................................................. 6169
Memduh Karalar, Murat Dicleli
380 EVALUATION OF GROUND MOTION INTENSITY MEASURES FOR THE FRAGILITY CURVES OF
ORDINARY HIGHWAY BRIDGES IN TURKEY ................................................................................................................................. 6179
Ahmet Yakut, Ozgur Avsar
1192 STRUCTURAL PERFORMANCE OF SEISMICALLY ISOLATED AND FIBERREINFORCED
CONCRETE BRIDGES .............................................................................................................................................................................. 6189
Ady Aviram, Kevin Mackie, Bozidar Stojadinovic
211 A COMPUTATIONAL PLATFORM FOR SEISMIC PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT OF PRECAST
CONCRETE SEGMENTAL BRIDGE COLUMNS WITH SHEAR RESISTANCE CONNECTING STRUCTURE ................... 6199
Tae-Hoon Kim, Se-Jin Park, Young-Jin Kim, Hyun Mock Shin
775 SEISMIC DESIGN/CONSTRUCTION OF LIFELINE BOX GIRDER BRIDGE - SAN FRANCISCO BAY
BRIDGE APPROACH SPAN REPLACEMENT..................................................................................................................................... 6207
Xiaoyun Wu, Hasan El-Natur, Mohan Char
1448 ON THE SELECTION OF FLUID VISCOUS DAMPERS FOR SEISMIC PROTECTION OF BRIDGES ......................... 6217
Jose J. Alvarez, Sergio Campos, Manuel Jara, Jose Jara
1682 SEISMIC RETROFITTING AND INCREASING BEARING CAPACITY OF STEEL TRUSS RAILWAY
BRIDGE’S DECK IN IRAN ....................................................................................................................................................................... 6227
Benyamin Mohebi, Gholamreza Ghodrati Amiri, Seyed Ali Razavian Amrei
251 ANALYTICAL FRAGILITY CURVES FOR SKEWED HIGHWAY BRIDGES ....................................................................... 6237
Ahmed Abdel-Mohti, Gokhan Pekcan
SEISMIC RESPONSE OF WOOD BUILDINGS
482 STUDY ON EFFECT OF ORTHOGONAL WALL OF JAPANESE TRADITIONAL WOODEN
APARTMENT, NAGAYA, MODELS CONSIDERING FLOOR STIFFNESS ................................................................................... 6247
Akira Yamada, Sanshiro Suzuki
490 REPORT ON LABORATORYTESTING OF ANCHOR BOLTS CONNECTING WOOD SILL PLATES TO
CONCRETE WITH MINIMUM EDGE DISTANCES ........................................................................................................................... 6257
Gary Mochizuki, Andrew Fennell, Kevin Moore, Philip Line, Thomas Vandorpe, Thomas Voss
PROTECTIVE SYSTEMS
890 SHAKING TABLE TEST OF SEMI-ACTIVE MASS DAMPER USING MR DAMPER .......................................................... 6266
Pei-Yang Lin, Hung-Wei Chiang
662 EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF BI-DIRECTIONAL SPRING UNIT IN ISOLATED FLOOR SYSTEMS ............................. 6276
Michel Bruneau, Shenlei Cui, Amarnath Kasalanati
642 SEISMIC RESPONSE ANALYSES OF FOLDED CANTILEVER SHEAR STRUCTURE ...................................................... 6285
Ercan Serif Kaya, Takuro Katayama, Toshitaka Yamao
844 SEISMIC BASE ISOLATION IN ROMANIA .................................................................................................................................. 6295
Ion Vlad
935 DEVELOPMENT OF MID-STORY ISOLATED STRUCTURE IN CHINA............................................................................... 6305
Xiangyun Huang, Fulin Zhou, Xuehai Luo, Jian Liu
1762 NUMERICAL EVALUATION OF BASE-ISOLATED STRUCTURES WITH OPTIMIZED
DISTRIBUTION OF LRB AND FPS ISOLATORS ................................................................................................................................ 6315
Hosein Naderpour, Gholamreza Ghodrati Amiri, Seyed Rohollah Hoseini Vaez
874 USING ORTHOGONAL PAIRS OF RODS ON CONCAVE BEDS (OPRCB) AS A BASE ISOLATION
DEVICE – PART (II): APPLICATION TO LOW - AND MID-RISE BUILDINGS........................................................................... 6325
Zohreh Bayat, Mahmood Hosseini, Amirhossein Soroor
1059 ROCKING ISOLATION OF BLOCK-LIKE OBJECTS UNDER DYNAMIC BASE EXCITATION.................................... 6335
Panayiotis Roussis, Eleni Pavlou, Elisavet Pisiara
ENERGY DISSIPATION SYSTEMS
361 PRELIMINARY STUDY OF OPTIMAL PLACEMENT OF VISCOUS DAMPERS IN BUILDINGS.................................... 6346
Jessica Whittle, Martin S. Williams, Tony Blakeborough
742 PARAMETRIC STUDY ON THE EFFICIENCY OF THE SINGLE AND MULTIPLE TMD SYSTEM ............................... 6356
Ihussain Abubakar, Abdulsalam Al-Janabi
798 PRE-DESIGN OF VISCOELASTIC DISSIPATING DEVICES TO REDUCE THE TRANSVERSE
DISPLACEMENTS OF AN URBAN CABLE-STAYED BRIDGE ....................................................................................................... 6366
J. Antonio López-Meza, Sonia E. Ruiz, Francisco L. Silva, Luis Esteva
898 A COMPARISON BETWEEN SHEAR TYPE METALLIC AND FLUID VISCOUS ENERGY
DISSIPATION DEVICES USING REAL-TIME HYBRID TESTING................................................................................................. 6376
Mobin Ojaghi, Jessica Whittle, Martin S. Williams, Anthony Blakeborough
1360 EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON SEISMIC RESPONSE CONTROL OF WOODEN HOUSES WITH SMALL
KNEE-BRACE OIL DAMPERS ................................................................................................................................................................ 6386
Yuuji Miyazu, Satsuya Soda
1651 OPTIMUM USE OF VISCOUS DAMPERS IN MULTI-STORY STEEL BUILDINGS FOR UPGRADING
THEIR SEISMIC BEHAVIOR .................................................................................................................................................................. 6395
Amir Masoud Malek, Mahmood Hosseini
346 FRAGILITY ANALYSIS OF STRUCTURES WITH CONTROLLED ROCKING BEAM-COLUMN
CONNECTIONS AND VISCOUS DAMPERS......................................................................................................................................... 6405
Gian Paolo Cimellaro, Hwasung Roh
LESSONS LEARNED FROM RECENT EARTHQUAKES
149 LESSONS LEARNED FROM THE 2008 SICHUAN EARTHQUAKE AND APPLICATION TO THE
RETROFIT PROGRAM IN ISTANBUL, TURKEY............................................................................................................................... 6415
H. K. Miyamoto, Amir Gilani, Peter Yanev
218 A STUDY ON BAM EARTHQUAKE RECONSTRUCTION: AN EXPERIENCE IN URBAN SCALE
EARTHQUAKE RECONSTRUCTION.................................................................................................................................................... 6425
Mohammad Reza Ghayamghamian, Zhila Pooyan
708 MODIFICATIONS OF INTEGRATION ALGORITHMS TO ACCOUNT FOR LOAD DISCONTINUITY IN
PSEUDODYNAMIC TESTING ................................................................................................................................................................. 6435
S. Hadi Moosavi, Oya Mercan
POST-EARTHQUAKE RESPONSE, DAMAGE ASSESSMENT, AND RECOVERY
1794 ANALYSIS OF 10 YEARS RESTORATION PROCESS AFTER A BIG DISASTER, STORY OF 1995
HANSHIN-AWAJI EARTHQUAKE, KOBE, JAPAN............................................................................................................................ 6445
Takahisa Enomoto, Toshio Yamamoto, Kunihiro Amakuni, Manuel Navarro
232 FUNDAMENTAL STUDY ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF ALGORITHM FOR ROAD DAMAGE
ESTIMATION DUE TO NATURAL DISASTERS USING PROBE-CAR DRIVING DATA ........................................................... 6455
Takeyasu Suzuki, Naoaki Ohshima
533 USING SHAKEMAP AND SHAKECAST FOR POST-EARTHQUAKE RESPONSE AND DAMAGE
ASSESSMENT.............................................................................................................................................................................................. 6461
Kuo-Wan Lin, David Wald, Loren Turner
1312 AUTOMATIC DAMAGE LOCALIZATION OF BUILDINGS BASED ON DOMINANT FREQUENCY
SHIFTS THROUGH INCOMPLETE MEASUREMENTS.................................................................................................................... 6471
Chi-Chang Lin, Ging-Long Lin, Chin-Te Liang, Jer-Fu Wang
39 STRUCTURAL DAMAGE DETECTION USING A NEW ENHANCED HILBERT-HUANG TRANSFORM
METHOD ...................................................................................................................................................................................................... 6481
O. Bahar, S. Ramezani
PUBLIC POLICY AND SEISMIC AWARENESS
192 PROMOTING SEISMIC RETROFIT IMPLEMENATTION THROUGH THE PROPERTY MARKET
PLACE........................................................................................................................................................................................................... 6491
Temitope Egbelakin, Suzanne Wilkinson
1593 REPORT CARDS FOR BUILDINGS: A PROPOSED RATING SYSTEM FOR EXPECTED
EARTHQUAKE PERFORMANCE .......................................................................................................................................................... 6502
Doug Hohbach, Kate Stillwell, Ron Mayes
EDUCATION
153 LEARNING EARTHQUAKE RESISTANT ARCHITECTURE: FIRST HAND ........................................................................ 6513
Vinodkumar Shah, Muktirajsinhji Chauhan
955 MODEL LATERAL SUPPORT SYSTEMS UNDER SEISMIC LOADING FOR EARTHQUAKE
ENGINEERING EDUCATION.................................................................................................................................................................. 6523
Ali Porbaha, Aparjeet S. Rangi
PREPAREDNESS
972 A RAPID VISUAL SEISMIC ASSESSMENT PRECEDURE FOR RC FRAME BUILDINGS IN INDIA .............................. 6533
Sudhir Jain, Keya Mitra, Manish Kumar, Mehul Shah
184 APPLICATION OF NEURAL NETWORKS ON RECENT DEVELOPMENT OF THE EARTHQUAKE
EARLY WARNING SYSTEM FOR TAIWAN........................................................................................................................................ 6538
Chu-Chieh Lin, Zhe-Ping Shen
1849 TSUNAMI WAVEBAG ...................................................................................................................................................................... 6547
Laura Boffi
LIFELINES
130 FIRE FIGHTING PERFORMANCE IN A CONGESTED URBAN AREA UNDER SEISMIC RISKS ................................... 6556
Kenta Nomura, Toshio Imai, Takeshi Koike
213 NUMRICAL SIMULATION OF SEISMIC RESPONSE OF UNDERGROUND UTILITY TUNNEL ON
SHAKTING TABLE TEST UNDER NON-UNIFORM EARTHQUAKE WAVE EXCITATION ................................................... 6567
Luzhen Jiang, Jun Chen, Jie Li
196 RESILIENCE OF WASTEWATER PIPELINES IN EARTHQUAKES....................................................................................... 6577
Mohammad Reza Zare, Suzanne Wilkinson
1649 VULNERABILITY OF TANKS UNDER SEISMIC ACTIONS................................................................................................... 6587
Luis Eduardo Perez Rocha, Ismael Eduardo Arzola Nuño, Marco Aurelio Fernández Torres
1466 A QUICK SEISMIC ASSESSMENT METHOD FOR JACKET TYPE OFFSHORE STRUCTURES BY
COMBINING PUSH-OVER AND NONLINEAR TIME HISTORY ANALYSES ............................................................................. 6597
Somayyeh Karimiyan, Mahmood Hosseini, Morteza Karimiyan
603 INTEGRATED HAZARD ANALYSIS METHODOLOGY TO STUDY INTERDEPENDENCIES AMONG
CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURES ........................................................................................................................................................... 6607
Hugon Juarez Garcia, Carlos E. Ventura, Jorge Hollman, Jose R. Marti
801 EXAMINING EARTHQUAKE-RELATED TRANSPORTATION DISRUPTION IN METRO VANCOUVER ................... 6617
Karthick Pathman, Stephanie Chang, Mojtaba Mahsuli, Terje Haukaas
1409 PROBABILISTIC ASSESSMENT OF COINCIDENCE OF EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE TO
COLLOCATED LIFELINES ..................................................................................................................................................................... 6627
Nobuoto Nojima
DAMS AND PORTS
517 SEISMIC SAFETY EVALUATION OF GATED SPILLWAYS: MODELLING HYDRODYNAMIC
PRESSURES ON GATES ........................................................................................................................................................................... 6637
Pierre Léger, Carlos Melo, Lucian Stefan, Lineu Pedroso, Najib Bouaanani
1525 SAFETY EVALUATION METHOD FOR CONCRETE DAM AGAINST SURFACE DISPLACEMENT OF
EARTHQUAKE FAULT............................................................................................................................................................................. 6647
Yoshiaki Ariga
165 SIMPLIFIED SEISMIC ANALYSIS OF PILES IN MARINE OIL TEMINALS ........................................................................ 6656
Rakesh K. Goel
REPAIR AND RETROFIT OF STRUCTURES AND FOUNDATIONS
275 UNDERPINNING OF RAFT SLAB FOUNDATION FOR SEISMIC REMEDIATION USING JET
GROUTING AND ITS QA METHODS .................................................................................................................................................... 6666
Blair Gohl, Ped Zabeti
488 SEISMIC PERFORMANCE OF SHAPE MEMORY ALLOY REINFORCED CONCRETE FRAMES................................. 6677
Mahmoud Elfeki, Maged Youssef
544 USE OF SMA AND BUCKLING RESTRAINED BRACES TO REDUCE SEISMIC RESIDUAL
DEFORMATIONS IN LOW-RISE RC FRAMES ................................................................................................................................... 6687
Maged Youssef, Mohamed Mashaly, Hamdy Abou-Elfath
1101 A SEISMIC FRAGILITY ANALYSIS OF SINGLE-STORY UNREINFORCED MASONRY
RESIDENTIAL STRUCTURES IN TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO ......................................................................................................... 6697
Richard Clarke
1034 SEISMIC ASSESSMENT AND RETROFIT OF THE KNIGHT STREET BRIDGE, VANCOUVER, BC. .......................... 6708
Shane Cook, Don Kennedy, Saqib Khan
1661 SEISMIC STRENGTHENING OF RC BUILDINGS USING CFRP........................................................................................... 6717
Iman Hajirasouliha, Reyes Garcia Lopez, Kypros Pilakoutas, Maurizio Guadagnini
736 SELECTIVE SEISMIC REHABILITATION OF RC INTERIOR BEAM-COLUMN JOINTS WITH FRP
COMPOSITES ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 6727
Chris Pantelides, Yasuteru Okahashi, Lawrence Reaveley
824 EVALUATION OF PROGRESSIVE COLLAPSE IN URM-INFILLED RC FRAMES WITH AND
WITHOUT FRP RETROFIT: 3-D COMPUTATIONAL SIMULATION OF A ONE STORY BUILDING................................... 6737
Mohamed Talaat, Wassim Naguib
148 SEISMIC RETROFIT OF THE LAX THEME BUILDING WITH A MASS DAMPER............................................................ 6744
H. K. Miyamoto, Amir Gilani, A. S. Mahin
VOLUME 9
1246 FIRE-FOLLOWING EARTHQUAKE RISK OF JAKARTA ...................................................................................................... 6754
Widjojo Prakoso
559 A NEW SEISMIC RETROFIT TECHNIQUE FOR INSTALLATION OF A NEW STEEL BRACED FRAME
INSIDE EXISTING RC FRAM.................................................................................................................................................................. 6764
T. Yamakawa, P. Javadi, M. Kobayashi
SOILS, FOUNDATIONS, SOIL-STRUCTURE INTERACTION AND SOIL STABILITY
760 PROCEDURE TO EVALUATE SEISMIC SETTLEMENT IN DRY SAND BASED ON SHEAR WAVE
VELOCITY................................................................................................................................................................................................... 6774
Fred Yi
22 REDUCING LIQUEFACTION RISK IN THE SANDY SHORE OF CASPIAN SEA BY USING STEEL PILE
DRIVING ...................................................................................................................................................................................................... 6784
Yahya Ahadi, M. Tehrani Zadeh
265 CYCLIC TRIAXIAL TESTING OF A WELL GRADED COMPACTED LIMESTONE ROCKFILL.................................... 6794
Hamid Fallah
838 COHERENCY OF QUALITY FACTOR OF SUBSURFACE GROUND IDENTIFIED USING VERTICAL
ARRAY RECORDS OF EARTHQUAKE MOTIONS............................................................................................................................ 6804
Yusuke Yamanaka, Osamu Tsujihara
1036 EFFECTS OF SITE AMPLIFICATION ON THE SEISMIC VULNERABILITY OF TYPICAL QUEBEC
CITY’S BRIDGES........................................................................................................................................................................................ 6814
Bertrand Galy, Amar Khaled, Marie-José Nollet
1601 DEFINITION OF S-WAVE VELOCITY STRUCTURE USING MICROTREMORS AND SPAC METHOD
APPLIED IN CHILPANCINGO, GUERRERO, MÉXICO. .................................................................................................................. 6824
Alonso Gomez-Bernal, Andres Gama-Garcia, Jorge Aguirre-Gonzalez
1244 EFFECT OF FREQUENCY ON THE EQUIVALENT VISCOUS DAMPING RATIO OF SOILS AT
SMALL CYCLIC STRAINS....................................................................................................................................................................... 6834
Kentaro Tabata, Mladen Vucetic
1736 SEISMIC SITE CLASS DETERMINATION USING MULTICHANNEL ANALYSIS OF SURFACE
WAVES (MASW)......................................................................................................................................................................................... 6844
Ali Nasseri-Moghaddam, Joseph Bennett, Bruce Polan
1611 ASSESSMENT OF SSI EFFECTS ON A SEISMICALLY ISOLATED MULTISPAN BRIDGE UNDER BIDIRECTIONAL SEISMIC EXCITATION .............................................................................................................................................. 6854
Panos Tsopelas, Alper Ucak, George P. Mavroeidis, Gokhan Pekcan
178 ON PREDICTION OF DYNAMIC PILE BEHAVIOR ................................................................................................................... 6864
Shamsher Prakash, Vijay Puri
356 BEHAVIOUR OF A PILE SUPPORTED STRUCTURE UNDER STRONG GROUND MOTION
CONSIDERING LIQUEFACTION OF THE SOIL MEDIUM ............................................................................................................. 6872
Bal Krishna Maheshwari, Rajib Sarkar
717 SOIL-STRUCTURE INTERACTION FOR SEISMIC ANALYSIS OF A NUCLEAR FACILITY .......................................... 6882
Jun Zheng Chen, Dario Rosidi, Lester Lee
932 STUDY ON THE EARTHQUAKE RESISTANCE BEHAVIOR OF STRUCTURE IN MOUNTAINOUS
REGION AFFECTED BY SOIL-STRUCTURE INTERACTION........................................................................................................ 6890
Li-Ping Liu, Jun Chen, Ying-Min Li, Rui-Xian Zhao
1606 FULL-SCALE FIELD TEST ON LIQUEFACTION-INDUCED DAMAGE OF RUNWAY PAVEMENT BY
CONTROLLED BLAST TECHNIQUE.................................................................................................................................................... 6899
Hiroshi Nakazawa, Takahiro Sugano
1272 E-DEFENSE SHAKING TABLE TEST ON THE BEHAVIOR OF LIQUEFACTION INDUCED LATERAL
SPREADING OF LARGE-SCALE MODEL GROUND WITH A PILE-FOUNDATION STRUCTURE BEHIND
QUAY WALL ............................................................................................................................................................................................... 6909
Masayoshi Sato, Kentaro Tabata
1273 E-DEFENSE SHAKING TABLE TESTS ON THE BEHAVIOR OF A PILEFOUNDATION STRUCTURE
IN LARGE-SCALE MODEL GROUND UNDER MULTI-DIMENSIONAL MOTIONS ................................................................. 6919
Kentaro Tabata, Masayoshi Sato
1331 CORRECTION FACTORS FOR OBTAINING MODIFIED RESPONSE SPECTRA TAKE INTO
ACCOUNT SOIL-STRUCTURE INTERACTION EFFECTS .............................................................................................................. 6929
Luis Restrepo, Juan Olarte, Manuel Villarraga
EXPERIMENTAL METHODS, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, AND COLLABORATIVE TOOLS
897 BENCHMARK BUILDING MODEL FOR STRUCTURAL CONTROL AND DAMAGE IDENTIFICATION .................... 6939
Pei-Yang Lin, Hung-Wei Chiang, Chin-Hsiung Loh
372 APPROXIMATE METHODS FOR ESTIMATING HYSTERETIC ENERGY DEMAND ON UNIAXIAL
PLAN-ASYMMETRIC BUILDINGS ........................................................................................................................................................ 6949
Siddhartha Ghosh, Manish Rathore, Amarnath Roy Chowdhury
571 SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION BY INTRODUCING A NEW ENHANCED HILBERTHUANG TRANSFORM
METHOD ...................................................................................................................................................................................................... 6958
Omid Bahar, Soheil Ramezani
776 MODELING ELASTIC AND INELASTIC, CRITICAL- AND POST-BUCKLING BEHAVIOR OF
BRACING MEMBERS ............................................................................................................................................................................... 6968
Swaminathan Krishnan
835 DEVELOPMENT OF AUTOMATIC MODELING SYSTEM FOR SIMULATION OF EMERGENCY
EVACUATION BEHAVIOR...................................................................................................................................................................... 6978
Osamu Tsujihara
NUMERICAL RESEARCH
86 IDENTIFICATION OF DYNAMIC PROPERTIES OF DAMS USING SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION
TECHNIQUES AND REAL EARTHQUAKE EXCITATIONS ............................................................................................................ 6985
Amir Meshkat, Ali Bakhshi
1306 RESPONSE OF MULTI-STORY STRUCTURES TO NEAR-FAULT GROUND MOTIONS AND
EQUIVALENT PULSES ............................................................................................................................................................................. 6997
Reza Sehhati, Adrian Rodriguez-Marek, William Cofer, Mohamed Elgawady
1658 INTRINSIC FREQUENCY AND ANALYSIS OF NON-STATIONARY SIGNALS................................................................. 7007
Ping Gu
1123 QUANTITATIVE EFFECTS OF SOFT-STORY IN LOW MASONRY BUILDINGS IN THE MEXICAN
PACIFIC COASTS ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 7017
Raul Gonzalez Herrera, Jorge Aguilar Carboney, Carlos Narcia Lopez, Alejandro Ruiz Sibaja
1450 ENGINEERING NONLINEAR STRUCTURAL RESPONSE IN RC PIERS: A COMPARISON BETWEEN
FULL SCALE EXPERIMENTS AND FIBER ELEMENT MODEL ANALYSIS .............................................................................. 7029
Yoshitaka Kai, Hiroki Aoto, Hiroto Matsuyama, Hiromichi Yoshikawa
164 LIMITATIONS OF ESTIMATING BASE SHEAR DEMAND IN EXISTING BUILDING FROM
RECORDED MOTIONS............................................................................................................................................................................. 7039
Rakesh K. Goel
EARTHQUAKE AND MULTIPLE HAZARD DESIGN
194 FERROCEMENT GEODESIC DOME SHELTER FOR EARTHQUAKE RESISTANT AFFORDABLE
HOUSING ..................................................................................................................................................................................................... 7048
N. Uday Kumar
1512 INFLUENCE OF HF2V DAMPING DEVICES ON THE PERFORMANCE OF THE SAC3 BUILDING
SUBJECTED TO THE SAC GROUND MOTION SUITES................................................................................................................... 7058
J Geoffrey Chase, Geoffrey Rodgers, Gregory Macrae, Tobias Bacht, Rajesh Dhakal, Jonathan Desombre
449 EFFECT OF EXTERNAL HIGH STRENGTH HOOPS ON SEISMIC RETROFIT OF LOW STRENGTH
CONCRETE R/C COLUMN UTILIZING ROUND REBAR ................................................................................................................ 7068
Wencong Li
504 SEISMIC RESTORATION OF HISTORICAL ISLAMIC MONUMENTS ................................................................................. 7078
Ashraf Osman
741 USE OF STEEL ANCHORS IN FRP REHABILITATION SYSTEMS ........................................................................................ 7088
Ashraf Biddah
REINFORCED CONCRETE BUILDINGS
237 EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON DAMAGE QUANTIFICATION OF R/C MEMBERS UNDER
EARTHQUAKES ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 7098
Noriyuki Takahashi, Eri Takahashi, Yoshiaki Nakano
816 COLLAPSE SIMULATION OF REINFORCED CONCRETE BUILDINGS WITH ASFI APPROACH ............................... 7108
Toshikazu Kabeyasawa, Toshimi Kabeyasawa, Yousok Kim
837 SIMPLIFIED PROCEDURE FOR RESIDUAL DISPLACEMENT PREDICTION OF R/C STRUCTURES
USING EARTHQUAKE RESPONSE SPECTRA ................................................................................................................................... 7118
Risa Kuwahara, Noriyuki Takahashi, Ho Choi, Yoshiaki Nakano
928 EVALUATION OF PERIOD FORMULAS FOR SHEAR WALL BUILDINGS ......................................................................... 7128
Ahmet Yakut, Ilker Kazaz
428 PREDICTION OF STRUCTURAL RESPONSE IN REINFORCED CONCRETE FRAMES SUBJECTED
TO EARTHQUAKE GROUND MOTIONS............................................................................................................................................. 7138
Nirmal Jayaram, Paolo Bazzurro, Fabrizio Mollaioli, Adriano De Sortis, Silvia Bruno
1041 EFFECTIVENESS EVALUATION OF POSITIVE REINFORCEMENT IN BEAM ELEMENTS OF
MOMENT-RESISTANT FRAMES SUBJECTED TO SEISMIC LOADS .......................................................................................... 7148
Victor I. Fernandez-Davila, Andres Lopez
1289 ANALYSIS OF A SQUAT CONCRETE WALL, DIFFERENCE IN TRANSLATION DURING SEISMIC
EXCITATION DUE TO FOUNDATION SUPPORT.............................................................................................................................. 7158
Eythor Thorhallsson, Indridi Rikhardsson, Adalsteinn Olafsson, Helgi Olafsson
1433 A CODE COMPARATIVE STUDY ON SEISMIC POUNDING OF ADJACENT BUILDINGS WITH
APPLICATIONS.......................................................................................................................................................................................... 7167
Haitham Eletrabi, Mohamed Abdel-Mooty, Mashhour Ghoneim
456 TEST OF REINFORCED CONCRETE BEAM-COLUMN JOINTS RETROFITTED WITH CARBON
FIBER-REINFORCED POLYMER STRANDS ...................................................................................................................................... 7177
Fumio Kusuhara, Hitoshi Shiohara
1457 PERFORMANCE ON SHEAR STRENGTH OF REINFORCED CONCRETE ECCENTRIC BEAMCOLUMN JOINTS SUBJECTED TO SEISMIC LOADING ................................................................................................................ 7187
Toshio Matsumoto, Hiroshi Nishihara, Masato Nakao, Juan Jose Castro
906 EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON RC COLUMNS DAMAGED UNDER EXPOSURE TO THE MARINE
ENVIRONMENT IN OKINAWA .............................................................................................................................................................. 7197
Hiroyuki Funaki, Tetsuo Yamakawa, Kozo Nakada, Yoshitomo Yamada
1012 PLASTICITY-BASED NONLINEAR FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS OF REINFORCED CONCRETE
COLUMNS WITH INADEQUATE SEISMIC DETAILING................................................................................................................. 7207
Adolfo Matamoros, Eric Sammarco
1377 LATERAL PERFORMANCE OF PRECAST POST-TENSIONED CONCRETE FILLED FIBER TUBES ........................ 7220
Mohamed Elgawady, Haitham Dawood
217 INVESTIGATION OF THE SEISMIC VULNERABILITY OF EXISTING RC BUILDINGS WITH
MASONRY INFILL WALLS ..................................................................................................................................................................... 7230
Stavroula Pantazopoulou, Georgia Thermou
SEISMIC DESIGN CODES AND CRITERIA
249 DISPLACEMENT-BASED PRELIMINARY DESIGN OF LOW-RISE BUILDINGS STIFFENED WITH
BUCKLING-RESTRAINED BRACES ..................................................................................................................................................... 7240
Amador Teran-Gilmore, Neftali Virto-Cambray
543 DETERMINISTIC AND PROBABILISTIC ASSESSMENT FOR SEISMIC PERFORMANCE OF
EXTERIOR BEAM-COLUMN JOINTS WITH HEADED BARS ........................................................................................................ 7250
Thomas Kang, Nilanjan Mitra
1335 CAPACITY AND DEMAND EVALUATION OF MOMENT FRAMES WITH DIFFERENT HYSTERETIC
BEHAVIOR .................................................................................................................................................................................................. 7260
Zhenhua Huang, Douglas Foutch
1498 INVESTIGATION OF SEISMIC POUNDING OF ADJACENT MULTI-STORY REINFORCED
CONCRETE BUILDINGS.......................................................................................................................................................................... 7270
Haitham Eletrabi, Mohamed Abdel-Mooty, Mashhour Ghoneim
1301 PROPER CONFIGURATION OF CENTERS FOR TWO DIRECTIONAL ASYMMETRIC SINGLE
STORY BUILDINGS................................................................................................................................................................................... 7280
A. S. Moghadam, Armin Aziminejad
THE FOLLY OF THE 0.85V MINIMUM IN THE DYNAMIC ANALYSIS PROVISIONS - CASE IN POINT:
TALL CONCRETE CHIMNEYS .............................................................................................................................................................. 7289
Sigmund A. Freeman
NONSTRUCTURAL BUILDING COMPONENTS
457 COMPARISON OF SEISMIC EVALUATION METHODS FOR NONSTRUCTURAL SYSTEMS IN
CANADA AND THE USA........................................................................................................................................................................... 7299
Amir Mohseni, Jay Lewis, Sina Haghdoust
459 SEISMIC BEHAVIOR OF KITCHEN FURNITURE IN HIGH-RISE BUILDING DUE TO LONG-PERIOD
GROUND MOTION .................................................................................................................................................................................... 7309
Saburoh Midorikawa, Tetsuro Hatsuoka, Hiroyuki Miura, Toshiyuki Masatsuki
HYBRID SIMULATION
940 ACTUATOR DELAY COMPENSATION FOR REAL-TIME HYBRID SIMULATION INVOLVING
MULTIPLE LARGE-SCALE SERVO-HYDRAULIC ACTUATORS ................................................................................................. 7315
Cheng Chen, James Ricles
1592 A GENERAL FORCE-BASED HYBRID SIMULATION FORMULATION............................................................................. 7325
Xiaoyun Shao
EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH
347 CONSEQUENCE OF CRACK DEVELOPMENT FOR DYNAMIC BEHAVIOUR OF COIR FIBRE
REINFORCED CONCRETE STRUCTURES ......................................................................................................................................... 7335
Majid Ali, Nawawi Chouw
514 A COMPARATIVE EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON THE PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF INFILLED
RC FRAMES USING QUASI-STATIC AND PSEUDO-DYNAMIC TESTING METHODS ........................................................... 7345
Cem Yalcin, Hasan Ozkaynak, Ercan Yuksel, Ahmet Anil Dindar
606 PERFORMANCE OF SANDWICH COMPOSITE MEMBERS SUBJECTED TO EARTHQUAKES.................................... 7359
H. L. Hsu, J. L. Juang, C. L. Chen
622 EXPERIMENTAL COMPARISONS OF THE SEISMIC PERFORMANCE OF R/C FRAMES INFILLED
WITH DIFFERENT KINDS OF MASONRY BLOCKS ........................................................................................................................ 7367
Maidiawati, Yasushi Sanada
654 SEISMIC BEHAVIOUR OF SMA REINFORCED CONCRETE BEAMS .................................................................................. 7377
Dan Palermo, Alaa Abdulridha, Simon Foo
1010 SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION AND SEISMIC RESPONSE PREDICTION OF TORSIONALLY COUPLED
BUILDINGS.................................................................................................................................................................................................. 7387
Ravi Sinha, Ganesh Narayan Hegde
1673 INTERIOR BEAM-COLUMN JOINTS WITH WIRE STRANDS SUBJECTED TO REVERSE CYCLIC
LOADS........................................................................................................................................................................................................... 7398
Seung-Hun Kim, Sang-Su Ha, Jeong-Ho Moon, Li-Hyung Lee
SEISMIC HAZARD ASSESSMENT AND SEISMIC RISK
704 THE ST. LOUIS AREA EARTHQUAKE HAZARDS MAPPING PROJECT - SLAEHMP ..................................................... 7406
Chris Cramer
1017 A STUDY ON SITE-SPECIFIC UNIFORM HAZARD RESPONSE SPECTRUM IN PROBABILITY
SEISMIC HAZARD ANALYSIS ............................................................................................................................................................... 7416
Yu-Wen Chang, Wen-Yu Jean, Chin-Hsiung Loh, Juin-Fu Chai
1562 EFFECT OF GROUND MOTION SUITES ON THE SEISMIC FRAGILITY OF A THREE-SPAN
CONTINUOUS STEEL GIRDER BRIDGE ............................................................................................................................................. 7426
Timothy Wright, Karthik Ramanathan, Reginald Desroches, Jamie Padgett
501 RAPID ASSESSMENT OF SEISMIC VULNERABILITY OF BANDAR ABBAS IN SOUTH OF IRAN ............................... 7436
Amir Abbas Fatemi, Zahra Tabrizian, Roohollah Ahmady Jazany, Hossein Kayhani
587 DETERMINATION OF DRIFT HAZARD CURVES OF STEEL MOMENT-RESISTING FRAMES FOR
TERRITORY OF TEHRAN CITY ............................................................................................................................................................ 7446
Mehdi Banazadeh, Mehdi Mahdavi Adeli, Ardeshir Deylami
GROUND MOTION AND SEISMICITY
220 ON THE USE OF AFTERSHOCKS WHEN DERIVING GROUND-MOTION PREDICTION EQUATIONS...................... 7456
John Douglas, Benedikt Halldórsson
754 3D GROUND MOTION IN THE GEORGIA BASIN REGION OF SW BRITISH COLUMBIA FOR
PACIFIC NORTHWEST SCENARIO EARTHQUAKES ..................................................................................................................... 7466
Sheri Molnar, John Cassidy, Stan Dosso, Kim Olsen
463 DEVELOPMENT AND VERIFICATION OF NEW SITE CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM AND SITE
COEFFICIENTS FOR THE REGIONS OF SHALLOW BEDROCK IN KOREA ............................................................................ 7476
Dong-Soo Kim, Sei-Hyun Lee, Yun-Wook Choo, Hong-Gun Park
589 CHARACTERISTICS OF EARTHQUAKE-INDUCED DIFFERENTIAL GROUND MOTIONS IN THE
NEAR-FAULT REGION............................................................................................................................................................................. 7486
George Mavroeidis, Apostolos Papageorgiou
715 CLASSIFICATION OF EARTHQUAKE DAMAGES IN BUILDINGS USING A GENETIC ALGORITHM
PROCEDURE............................................................................................................................................................................................... 7496
Anaxagoras Elenas, Petros Alvanitopoulos, Ioannis Andreadis
1180 AN EMPIRICAL BRACKETED DURATION RELATIONSHIP FOR CENTRAL/EASTERN NORTH
AMERICA..................................................................................................................................................................................................... 7506
Russell Green, Jongwon Lee
919 COMPILATION OF DIGITAL STRONG MOTION DATA FOR EASTERN CANADA ......................................................... 7516
Lan Lin, John Adams
135 SEISMOLOGICAL BASIS OF THE BRAZILIAN STANDARD FOR SEISMIC DESIGN ...................................................... 7526
Sergio Hampshire C. Santos, Silvio De Souza Lima, Fernanda C. Moreira Da Silva
1157 NEAR-FAULT STRONG-MOTION ARRAY RECORDINGS OF THE MW 6.3 OLFUS EARTHQUAKE ON
29 MAY 2008 IN ICELAND ....................................................................................................................................................................... 7536
Benedikt Halldorsson, Ragnar Sigbjornsson, Andrew Chanerley, Nicholas Alexander
1156 CYCLIC BEHAVIOR OF PRECAST SEGMENTAL CONCRETE BRIDGE COLUMNS WITH HIGH
PERFORMANCE STEEL REBAR AS ENERGY DISSIPATION BARS............................................................................................ 7546
Yu-Chen Ou, Mu-Sen Tsai, Kuo-Chun Chang, George C. Lee
1451 RECENT DEVELOPMENT OF EQUIVALENT FORCE CONTROL METHOD FOR HYBRID TESTING ..................... 7556
B. Wu, G. S. Xu, L. X. Deng, Z. X. Chen, Z. Wang, H. B. Jiang, H. D. Wang, F. L. Wang
1729 EXTREME EVENTS AND COMMUNITY RECOVERY ............................................................................................................ 7566
Daniel J. Alesch, Lucy A. Arendt, James N. Holly
1756 DEVELOPING A MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORK FOR COMMUNITY RECOVERY FOLLOING
EXTREME EVENTS................................................................................................................................................................................... 7575
Laurie A. Johnson
1804 USING A SCENARIO TO TEST RESPONSE TO A CATASTROPHIC URBAN EARTHQUAKE:
GOLDEN GUARDIAN EXERCISE '06 - A REGION WIDE EMERGENCY RESPONSE EXERCISE ........................................ 7585
R. K. Eisner
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