Resources & Links

(please feel free to suggest resources that can be added here. Contact Marjorie Greene.)

Basic Information/Guidelines/Tutorials

FEMA-154, Appendix E – see Section E.7 for a graphic of concrete moment frame construction (including non-ductile concrete frame construction), summary of EQ performance and rehabilitation techniques.  The complete document is also available here.

Basic description of concrete construction (not vulnerabilities) from Portland Cement Association.

Tutorial on RC Frame Construction from the World Housing Encyclopedia, includes many illustrations.

Short primer on RC frame buildings, from the World Housing Encyclopedia, includes review of performance and mitigation.

Article on mitigation technology from “Invention & Technology Magazine” (1986).

Performance in Earthquakes

PEER report on performance of concrete frame structures in the 1999 Turkey EQ.

PEER Test-Bed Report on Non-Ductile Concrete Frame Building in Van Nuys.

Ordinances/Policies

City of Santa Monica ordinance on seismic strengthening provisions for existing nonductile concrete buildings 
City of Burbank publication on mitigation ordinance for non-ductile concrete frame structures “Voluntary Earthquake Hazard Reduction Guidelines for Existing reinforced Concrete Buildings and Concrete Frame Buildings with Masonry Infill.” 

Links to other organizations

Sponsoring Organizations

Concrete

 
 
 

Coalition Sponsors

EERI PEER ATC