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SAILS-RIGGING BLAST PROTECTIVE STRUCTURAL SHIELD Valentin Shustov, P.E., Ph.D
MODAL PERFORMANCE FACTOR TESTING PROCEDURE FOR BASE ISOLATION SYSTEMS Valentin Shustov, P.E., Ph.D
A NEW CONCEPT OF A PERFORMANCE BUILDING CODE FOR EARTHQUAKE DESIGN Valentin Shustov, P.E., Ph.D
THE 1994 NORTHRIDGE EARTHQUAKE EXPERIENCE: SEISMIC ISOLATION Valentin Shustov, P.E., Ph.D
The Tale of the Three Ball Parks Charles Thornton, Thornton Tomasetti Engineers
Structural Lessons Learned from Santa Barbara Earthquakes Stanley Mendes, Stanley Mendes Inc.
Anatomy of a 4-Story Wood Building Seismic Retrofit John Coil, Thornton-Tomasetti/Coil & Welsh
What Structural Engineers Need to Know About Liquefaction Marshall Lew, Law/Crandall
Geoffrey R. Martin, USC
What the 1997 UBC Wants to Say Theodore C. Zsutty
Design of Mid-Rise Buildings (2 to 26 Stories) Using the 1997 UBC Nabih Youssef, Nabih Youssef & Associates
Viscous Damper vs. Friction Damper - Which one? Dihong Shao,Andersen Bjornstad Kane Jacobs Inc.
H. Miyamoto, Marr Shaffer& Miyamoto Inc.
Performance-Based Design of a Concrete Shear Wall Building T. Jeff Guh, EQE International Inc.
Winston Chai, EQE International Inc.
Design of Stanford's Escondido Village Housing Project Using Friction Dampers - A Practical Performance-Based Design. David Mar, Steven Tipping & Associates
Design of Steel Buildings to Prevent Progressive Collapse Steve Punch, HDR Architecture Inc.
Application of Shotcrete in Heavily Reinforced Seismic Projects Rob Vonarb, Superior Gunite
Preview of the Upcoming ATC-50 Seismic Rating System for Wood Frame Dwellings David Breiholz, BQE Inc.
Shafat Qazi, BQE Inc.
John Wiggins, J. H. Wiggins Company
Bayview Federal Bank Seismic Upgrade Using Latest Technology David Mar, Steven Tipping & Associates
Brendan Beazley, Steven Tipping & Associates
IBC 2000 vs. UBC 1997 - Seismic Design Comparison S. K. Ghosh, S. K. Ghosh Associates Inc.
Design of 5-Story Precast Concrete Building - Results of an Experiment Sri Sritharan, UCSD
Nigel Priestley,  UCSD
Frieder Seible,  UCSD
State-of-the-Art Structural Design of the Walt Disney Concert Hall Farzad Naeim, John A Martin & Associates
The New Mega Frame System Used in   85-Story Building in Taiwan James Tai, T. Y. Lin International
Retrofit Historic 11-Story Building Using Demand Capacity Approach Leo Panian, Steven Tipping & Associates
David Mar, Steven Tipping & Associates
Probable Maximum Loss (PML) and Seismic Risk Analysis Constantine Shuhaibar, SOHA Engineers.
Dynamic Blast Loading Using Passive Energy Dissipaters. H. Miyamoto, Marr Shaffer & Miyamoto
Douglas Taylor, Taylor Devices
Dynamic Analysis of a Large Steel Liquid Reservoir Richard Hess, Hess Engineering Inc.
George Pytlik, Hess Engineering Inc
Aswin Rangaswamy, Hess Engineering Inc
Effects of Uplift on Base Isolated Buildings Roy Lobo, John A Martin & Associates
Farzad Naeim,  John A Martin & Associates
Effects of Foundation Flexibility on Seismic Performance of a Building C. S. Tsai, Feng Chia University Taiwan
C. S. Chen, Feng Chia University Taiwan
S. B. Lin, Feng Chia University Taiwan
Wenshen Pong, San Francisco State University
Design Procedures for Buildings Incorporating Hysteretic Damping Devices Peter Clark, Seismic Isolation Engineering Inc.
Kazuhlko Kasal, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Ian Aiken, Seismic Isolation Engineering Inc.
Isao Kimura, Nippon Steel Corporation
Alternative to the Capacity Spectrum Method Mark Aschheim, Mid-America Earthquake Center
Results of Stress Reversal Tests on Steel Moment Frame Connection James Partridge, Smith-Emery Company
Practical Design Consideration in Seismic Retrofit of Steel Frame Buildings Lauren Carpenter, Wong Hobach Lau
James Lai, James Lai Consulting Structural Engineer
Panel Discussion on Wood Seismic Issues. Dennis Wish, Kelly Koben, John Coil, Chris Christokos and Doug Thompson. Moderator Shafat Qazi
The Role of Building Departments in the New Millennium Andrew Adelman, City of Los Angeles


 

 

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