- Author
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Todd, D. R.
- Title
- Some Basics on Whos Who and Whats What in Seismic Safety.
- Coporate
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
- Report
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Technical Report 120,
- Book or Conf
- Federal Construction Council Task Group on Seismic Safety. Seismic Safety Technology and Regulations: A Look at the Near Future (Summary of a Symposium). Technical Report 120. October 1991,
National Academy Press, Washington, DC,
Gaithersburg, MD,
1-11 p.,
1991
- Keywords
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earthquakes
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seismographs
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building codes
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regulations
- Abstract
- The tendency of both governments and engineers to form acronyms seems to reach an apex in the U. S. earthquake engineering community. Almost every group, program, and document in the public and private sectors is referred to by an acronym or idiom. This paper defines organization acronyms in Table 1 and presents short idiomatic and official titles of earthquake-related documents in Table 2. The text uses a description of the Federal earthquake program, the world of building codes, and the history of the NEHRP Recommended Provisions to illustrate the way in which many of these organizations and documents are related.