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May 7, 2012
Research on the Seismic Performance of Nonstructural Components
Authors: André Filiatrault [email protected], Steven French [email protected], William Holmes [email protected], Tara Hutchinson [email protected], Emmanuel Maragakis [email protected], and Robert Reitherman [email protected]Author Affiliations
Publication: AEI 2011: Building Integration Solutions
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With $4 million in National Science Foundation funding, a five-year research project is currently testing and analyzing the seismic performance of nonstructural components with the aim of developing improved construction systems. The nonstructural components within the scope of the project are ceilings, piping (in particular fire sprinkler piping), and partitions. These three kinds of nonstructural components, although designed and constructed as separate processes by different design professionals and installed by different contractors, physically interact as a single system in an earthquake. This unplanned interaction has proven to be a cause of damage in past earthquakes. Because nonstructural components represent about three-quarters of the construction cost of a typical building, the vulnerability of nonstructural systems has accounted for the majority of the cost of damage in recent US earthquakes. The project website, http://www.nees-nonstructural.org/, provides further information.
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Professor of Civil, Structural, and Environmental Engineering, University at Buffalo, 134 Ketter Hall, Buffalo, NY 14260.E-mail: [email protected]
Professor of City and Regional Planning, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0695.E-mail: [email protected]
Principal and Structural Engineer, Rutherford & Chekene, 55 Second Street, Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94105.E-mail: [email protected]
Professor, Department of Structural Engineering, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, MC 0085, La Jolla, CA 92093.E-mail: [email protected]
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Dean of the College of Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno, Mail Stop 0256, Reno NV 89557.E-mail: [email protected]
Executive Director, Consortium of Universities for Research in Earthquake Engineering, 1301 S. 46th Street, Richmond, CA, 94804.E-mail: [email protected]
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