Blast-resistant Benefits of Seismic Design - Phase 2 Study

Résumé du livre

This study is part of an investigation as to whether the effectiveness of strengthening measures intended to improve a building's resistance to earthquake motions can also improve the resistance of a building to blast effects and progressive collapse. This phase of the study addresses the seismic strengthening of older steel moment frame buildings. In an approach that is very similar to the evaluation documented in FEMA 439A, a specific existing steel moment frame building was used to exemplify steel moment frame behavior and the results of that one building are then generalized to the class.