- Author
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Eagling, D. G.
- Title
- Seismic Safety Guide.
- Coporate
- California Univ., Berkeley
- Sponsor
- Department of Energy, Washington, DC
- Report
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LBL-9143; UC-11; DE84000542
September 1983
204 p.
- Contract
- DE-AC03-76SF00098
- Keywords
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building materials
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earthquakes
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safety
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seismic design
- Abstract
- The Seismic Safety Guide provides managers of U.S. Department of Energy (DOE0 facilities with practical guidelines for administering a comprehensive earthquake safety program. Because of an increasing awareness of seismic risk, such a guide is badly needed. Often the approach to reviewing existing facilities for seismic safety is so overly sophisticated that the actual abatement of obvious deficiencies is delayed, costly, and often legalistic rather than objective. Furthermore, it is widely observed that still today buildings are generally being constructed without benefit of a seismic plan check, a simple process that has proved so effective in actual experience with earthquakes in California.