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Earthquake Engineering Tutorials An Introduction to Earthquakes: quakes.pdf Seismic Response Spectra: seis_rs.pdf The Pseudo Velocity Shock Response Spectrum: pseudo_velox.pdf Newmark-Hall Method for Design Response Spectra: Newmark Hall.pdf Building Response to Seismic Excitation: bseismic.pdf Yu, Whang, Venugopal, Steward, Wallace, Force-Vibration Testing of Buildings using Shaker Seismic, Simulation (LSSS) Testing:  LSSS_testing1.pdf Seismic_Design, Steel moment frames, Welded Joints: 08-GB_Seismic_Design.pdf See also: Shock & Shock Response Spectrum

Standards An Implementation of the ANSI Standard C37.98. The Swedish National Testing and Research Institute. Ansi C37.98.pdf U.S. Army, Response Spectra and Seismic Analysis for Concrete Hydraulic Structures: r_spectra.pdf Building Vibration Standards: building.pdf DOE-STD-1020-94. Contains chapter on earthquake design and evaluation criteria: std1020.pdf United Facilities Criteria (UFC) Structural Load Data, US Department of Defense: ufc_3_310_01.pdf FEMA-350, Recommended Seismic Design Criteria for New Steel Moment-Frame Buildings: fema-350.pdf Acceptance Criteria for Seismic Certification by Shake-Table Testing of Nonstructural Components:  ac156.pdf Building Code Seismic Testing Requirements for Nonstructural Components, slide presentation:  building_code_testing.pdf R. Bachman, U.S. Building Code Seismic Testing Requirements for Nonstructural Components, slide presentation slide presentation: 01Bachman.pdf

Caltrans Caltrans Seismic Design Criteria v1.2: caltrans.pdf Caltrans Transportation Related Earthborne Vibration: caltrans_earth.pdf Assessment of the Modes of Failure of Retaining Structures from Previous Major Earthquakes: Caltrans Seismic Design Analysis of Retaining Walls Projects:  REU2009_Tadei_Paper.pdf

Nuclear Facilities Sandia Report, Part I: Use of Seismic Experience and Test Data to Show Ruggedness of Equipment in Nuclear Power Plants & Part II: Review Procedure to Assess Seismic Ruggedness of Cantilever Bracket Cable Tray Supports:  920140.pdf U.S. Atomic Energy (Nuclear Regulatory) Commission: Regulatory Guide 1.60:  MIL003740207.pdf Regulatory Guide 1.61: nuclear_01-061.pdf Horizontal Design Spectrum Figure:  US_Atomic_SRS.doc Recommendations for Revision of Seismic Damping Values in Regulatory Guide 1.61: seismic_damping.pdf  IAEA Seismic Design and Qualification for Nuclear Power Plants, NS-G-1.6: Pub1158_web.pdf

Seismic Synthesis for Shaker Testing and Modal Transient FEA Shaker Table Seismic Testing of Equipment using Historical Strong Motion Data Scaled to Satisfy a Shock Response Spectrum quake_syn.pdf An Alternative Method of Specifying Shock Test Criteria: NASA_TM_08_215253.pd Matlab Scripts: waveform_reconstruct.m wavelet_scale_SRS_add.m werror2.m wqsrs.m progressbar.m th_from_wavelet_table.m Wavelet Tables: el_NS_wavelet_table.out wavelet_40.txt Time Histories: displacement_40.txt velocity_40.txt accel_40.txt

Seismology Tutorials Seismic Phase List: seismic_phase.pdf J. Havskov, Instrumentation in Earthquake Seismology instrument.pdf

Earthquake Case Histories USGS - Loma Prieta Earthquake: USGS-LP.pdf Hector Mine Earthquake Seismogram: hector.pdf Professor Otani, Disaster Mitigation Engineering - The Kobe Earthquake Disaster: Kobe_disaster.pdf

Buildings & Bridges Case Histories Transamerica Pyramid Design: pyramid.pdf Golden Gate Bridge: golden.pdf

Earthquake Data El Centro 1940 Earthquake, Time History Data File, North-South Component: elcentro.dat This file has two colums: time(sec) & Acceleration (G). See also: El Centro Earthquake

ARS Interpolation Matlab script:  ARS.m

Newsletters with Earthquake Articles Issue Feature Articles June_2009 north_korea_seismic.txt wind_turbine_1.mp3 wind_turbine_2.mp3 North Korean Nuclear Test Wind Turbine Noise January 2007 shofar1.mp3 shofar2.mp3 shofar3.mp3 Electrophonic Sound Shofar Acoustics Seiches in Pools and Lakes Caused by Earthquakes     June 2006 SOFAR Channel  Seismo-acoustic T-waves Ice Quakes  January_2005  Tsunami Video 1 Tsunami Video 2  Northern Sumatra Earthquake and Tsunami December_2004 EKG Waves Taiwan Earthquake November 2004  Data File: Solomon_Time_History.zip Homebuilt Lehman Seismometer Solomon Island Earthquake  March 2002 1. Moonquakes 2. Suspension Footbridge Resonance Induced by Marching  February 2002  1. Niigata Earthquake 1964: Soil Liquefaction 2. The Bay of Fundy Resonance 3. Lake Geneva Seiche 4. The Earth’s Natural Frequency   January 2002  1. The Citicorp Building Tuned Mass Damper 2. Seismic Response of the Olive View Hospital  November 2001  1. Seismic Waveform Review 2. The World Trade Center Disaster: A Shock & Vibration Perspective 3. "Good Vibrations" May Prevent Bone Loss in Space    August 2001 1. Sunquakes 2. David O. Smallwood, Improved Recursive Formula for Calculating Shock Response Spectra

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