Civil Engineering Association

EARTHQUAKE SPECTRA, MAY 1999, VOLUME 15,ISSUE 2

1.Estimating Seismic Ground Motion
Bruce A. Bolt

2.The Behavior of Bearings Used for Seismic Isolation under Shear and Axial Load
Atsushi Mori, Peter J. Moss, Nigel Cooke, and Athol J. Carr

3.The Behavior of Bearings Used for Seismic Isolation under Rotation and Axial Load
Atsushi Mori, Peter J. Moss, Nigel Cooke, and Athol J. Carr

4.Seismic Analysis of Older Reinforced Concrete Columns
José A. Pincheira, Faridun S. Dotiwala, and Jonathan T. D'Souza
pp. 245-272

5.Spectral Ratios for Mexico City from Free-Field Recordings
Eduardo Reinoso and Mario Ordaz

6.Variability of Damage Ratios for Property in Earthquakes
David A. Rhoades and David J. Dowrick

7.Optimal Design of ADAS Damped MDOF Structures
Yuri Ribakov and Jacob Gluck

8.International Seismic Zone Tabulation Proposed by the 1997 UBC Code: Observations for Mexico
Arturo Tena-Colunga

9.Extant Panel Zone Design Procedures for Steel Frames Are Questioned
Robert E. Englekirk

10.The Effects of Vertical Ground Motion on Base-Isolated Building Systems
Marshall Lew and Martin B. Hudson

11.The Effects of Vertical Ground Motion on Base-Isolated Building Systems
Marshall Lew and Martin B. Hudson

12.Seismic Design Methodologies for the Next Generation of Codes
William J. Hall

EARTHQUAKE SPECTRA, AUGUST 1999, VOLUME 15, ISSUE 3

1.Logic Tree Analysis of Secondary Nonstructural Systems with Independent Components
Christopher Roth

2.The Aqaba Earthquake of November 22, 1995
Abdallah I. Husein Malkawi, Karim S. Numayr, and Samer A. Barakat

3.Push-over Analysis Procedure in Earthquake Engineering
Simon Kim and Enzo D'Amore

4.Toward Performance-Based Seismic Design of Structures
Sutat Leelataviwat, Subhash C. Goel, and Bo idar Stojadinovi

5.A Model for Buildings' Vulnerability Assessment Using the Parameterless Scale of Seismic Intensity (PSI)
Giampiero Orsini

6.RC Building Damage Statistics and SDF Response with Design Seismic Forces
Shunsuke Otani

7.Shear Resonance Frequencies of Alluvial Valleys by Rayleigh's Method
Roberto Paolucci

8.Seismic Response of Unanchored Bodies
Yuan Shao and C. C. Tung

9.TriNet "ShakeMaps": Rapid Generation of Peak Ground Motion and Intensity Maps for Earthquakes in Southern California
David J. Wald, Vincent Quitoriano, Thomas H. Heaton, Hiroo Kanamori, Craig W. Scrivner, and C. Bruce Worden

10.Relationships between Peak Ground Acceleration, Peak Ground Velocity, and Modified Mercalli Intensity in California
David J. Wald, Vincent Quitoriano, Thomas H. Heaton, and Hiroo Kanamori

11.Surface Seismic Measurements of Near-Surface P- and S-Wave Seismic Velocities at Earthquake Recording Stations, Seattle, Washington
Robert A. Williams, William J. Stephenson, Arthur D. Frankel, and Jack K. Odum

12.Field Act Public Schools . . . A Need for Safety Reviews
Vilas Mujumdar and Gary McGavin

13.Earthquake Fears, Predictions, and Preparations in Mid-America
Pamela S. Showalter

14.Paying the Price: The Status and Role of Insurance against Natural Disasters in the United States
Weimin Dong

Erratum

EARTHQUAKE SPECTRA, NOV 1999, VOLUME 15, ISSUE 4

1.On the Use of Elastic Input Energy for Seismic Hazard Analysis
Martin C. Chapman

2.Capacity-Demand-Diagram Methods Based on Inelastic Design Spectrum
Anil K. Chopra and Rakesh K. Goel

3.Retrofit for Control and Repairability of Damage
Anindya Dutta, John B. Mander, and Tatiana Kokorina

4.Influence of Viscoelastic Dampers on the Seismic Response of a Lightly Reinforced Concrete Flat Slab Structure
John R. Hayes, Jr., Douglas A. Foutch, and Sharon L. Wood

5.Application of Extreme Value Statistics to Annual Maximum Magnitudes in Jordan Employing a Mixture Distribution
Abdallah I. Husein Malkawi, Fayez A. Abdulla, Samer A. Barakat, and Mohanned S. Al-Sheriadeh

6.Insurance as an Integrating Policy Tool for Disaster Management: The Role of Public-Private Partnerships
Howard Kunreuther

7.Seismic Retrofit and Repair of Circular Bridge Columns with Advanced Composite Materials
R. Ma and Yan Xiao

8.How Safe Are Pre-Northridge WSMFs? A Case Study of the SAC Los Angeles Nine-Story Building
Bruce F. Maison and David Bonowitz

9.Analysis and Design of Concrete Columns for Confinement
Salim R. Razvi and Murat Saatcioglu

10.Meeting the Challenges of Reducing Earthquake Losses: Engineering Accomplishments and Frontiers
Daniel P. Abrams

11.The Footprint of an Earthquake
George W. Housner

12.The Earthquake Industry
Robert Reitherman

13.DISCUSSION OF: "The Dynamic Response of Wood-Frame Shear Walls with Viscoelastic Dampers"
Christopher Higgins and Kazuhiko Kasai

14.RESPONSE TO: C. Higgins's and K. Kasai's Discussion of "The Dynamic Response of Wood-Frame Shear Walls with Viscoelastic Dampers"
David W. Dinehart, Harry W. Shenton III, and Timothy E. Elliott

Erratum

EARTHQUAKE SPECTRA, FEB 2001, VOLUME 17, ISSUE 1

1.Earthquake Engineering for Transportation Structures—Past, Present, and Future
Joseph Penzien

2.Seismic Design of Lightweight Metal Building Systems
Timothy Wayne Mays

3.Direct Displacement-Based Design: Use of Inelastic vs. Elastic Design Spectra
Anil K. Chopra and Rakesh K. Goel

4.An Empirical Geotechnical Seismic Site Response Procedure
Adrián Rodríguez-Marek, Jonathan D. Bray, and Norman A. Abrahamson

5.Earthquake Damage Assessment Based on Fuzzy Logic and Neural Networks
Mauricio Sánchez-Silva and Libardo García

6.Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analyses for Ground Motions and Fault Displacement at Yucca Mountain, Nevada
J. Carl Stepp et al. (Yucca Mountain PSHA Project Members)

7.Nonstructural Seismic Preparedness of Southern California Hospitals
David J. Whitney, Andra Dickerson, and Michael K. Lindell

EARTHQUAKE SPECTRA, FEB 2010, VOLUME 26, ISSUE 1

1.Ground Motion Prediction Equation (“Attenuation Relationship”) for Inelastic Response Spectra
Yousef Bozorgnia, Mahmoud M. Hachem, and Kenneth W. Campbell

2.Deterministic and Probabilistic Predictions of Yield Strength and Inelastic Displacement Spectra
Yousef Bozorgnia, Mahmoud M. Hachem, and Kenneth W. Campbell

3.Epistemic Uncertainties in Component Fragility Functions
Brendon A. Bradley

4.Probabilistic Urban Structural Damage Classification Using Bitemporal Satellite Images
ZhiQiang Chen and Tara C. Hutchinson

5.Application and Validation of Practical Tools for Nonlinear Soil-Foundation Interaction Analysis
Sivapalan Gajan, Prishati Raychowdhury, Tara C. Hutchinson, Bruce L. Kutter, and Jonathan P. Stewart

6.Seismic Analysis of Hydrodynamic Sloshing Force on Storage Tank Roofs
M. A. Goudarzi, S. R. Sabbagh-Yazdi, and W. Marx

7.Building Seismic Loss Model for Tehran
Babak Mansouri, Mohsen Ghafory-Ashtiany, Kambod Amini-Hosseini, Reza Nourjou, and Mehdi Mousavi

8.New Seismic Hazard Maps for Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands
Charles Mueller, Arthur Frankel, Mark Petersen, and Edgar Leyendecker

9.Procedural Assumption Comparison for Old Buildings via Pushover Analysis Including the ASCE 41 Update
Georgios Siahos and Stephanos Dritsos

10.Experimental Investigation on the Seismic Behavior of Palletized Merchandise in Steel Storage Racks
Petros Sideris, Andre Filiatrault, Martin Leclerc, and Robert Tremblay

11.Seismic Vulnerability Assessment of Reinforced Concrete Buildings Using Hierarchical Fuzzy Rule Base Modeling
Solomon Tesfamariam and Murat Saatcioglu

12.Seismic Risk Assessment and Mitigation of Water Supply Systems
Yu Wang, Siu-Kui Au, and Qiang Fu

13.The Influence of Isolator Hysteresis on Equipment Performance in Seismic Isolated Buildings
T. Y. Yang, Dimitrios Konstantinidis, and James M. Kelly

Technical Note - RISe: Illustrating Georeferenced Data of Seismic Risk and Loss Assessment Studies Using Google Earth
Dominik H. Lang and F. Vladimir Gutiérrez Corea

Book review - Don't Tear It Down! Preserving the Earthquake Resistant Vernacular Architecture of Kashmir by Randolph Langenbach
Reviewed by Craig D. Comartin

EARTHQUAKE SPECTRA, MAY 2010, VOLUME 26, ISSUE 2

1.Enhanced Displacement Coefficient Method for Degrading Multi-Degree- of-Freedom Systems
Emrah Erduran and Sashi K. Kunnath

2.Vibration Studies of Nonstructural Components and Systems Within a Full-Scale Building
Tara C. Hutchinson, Derek Nastase, Falko Kuester, and Kai Doerr

3.Modeling Input Motion Boundary Conditions for Simulations of Geotechnical Shaking Table Tests
Mahadevan Ilankatharan and Bruce Kutter

4.Observed Natural Frequencies, Damping Ratios, and Mode Shapes of Vibration of a 30-Story Building Excited by a Major Earthquake and Typhoon
Kun-Sung Liu and Yi-Ben Tsai

5.The 8 June 2008 Mw6.5 Achaia–Elia, Greece Earthquake: Source Characteristics, Ground Motions, and Ground Failure
Basil Margaris, George Athanasopoulos, George Mylonakis, Christos Papaioannou, Nikolaos Klimis, Nikolaos Theodulidis, Alexandros Savvaidis, Vicky Efthymiadou, and Jonathan P. Stewart

6.Observed Seismic Behavior of Buildings in Northern Pakistan During the 2005 Kashmir Earthquake
Amjad Naseer, Akhtar Naeem Khan, Zakir Hussain, and Qaisar Ali

7.Fragility of Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing Equipment
Keith Porter, Gayle Johnson, Robert Sheppard, and Robert Bachman

8.Investigation of the Seismic Response of a Byzantine Church and Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Proposed Interventions
Ioannis N. Psycharis, Harris P. Mouzakis, Androniki Miltiadou, Evangelia P. Pavlopoulou, and Ioannis M. Taflampas

9.Engineering Analysis of Ground Motion Records from the 2001 Mw 8.4 Southern Peru Earthquake
Adrian Rodriguez-Marek, James A. Bay, Kwangsoo Park, Gonzalo A. Montalva, Adel Cortez-Flores, Joseph Wartman, and Rubén Boroschek

10.Directivity Correction for the Next Generation Attenuation (NGA) Relations
Badie Rowshandel

11.Cyclic Behavior of Zipper-Braced Frames
Chuang-Sheng Yang, Roberto T. Leon, and Reginald DesRoches

Technical Note - NEHRP Site Amplification Factors and the NGA Relationships
Yin-Nan Huang, Andrew S. Whittaker, and Nicolas Luco

Book review - Shaken Allegiances: Two Days from the Continuum of Nonsense
Michel Bruneau and Robert Reitherman, Reviewer

EARTHQUAKE SPECTRA, AUGUST 2010, VOLUME 26, ISSUE 3

1.An Improved Method for Nonstationary Spectral Matching
Linda Al Atik and Norman Abrahamson

2.The Influence of Geographical Resolution of Urban Exposure Data in an Earthquake Loss Model for Istanbul
Ihsan Engin Bal, Julian J. Bommer, Peter J. Stafford, Helen Crowley, and Rui Pinho

3.A Ground Motion Prediction Equation for the Horizontal Component of Cumulative Absolute Velocity (CAV) Based on the PEER-NGA Strong Motion Database
Kenneth W. Campbell and Yousef Bozorgnia

4.Recorded Motions of the 6 April 2009 Mw 6.3 L'Aquila, Italy, Earthquake and Implications for Building Structural Damage: Overview
Mehmet Çelebi, Paolo Bazzurro, Lauro Chiaraluce, Paolo Clemente, Luis Decanini, Adriano DeSortis, William Ellsworth, Antonella Gorini, Erol Kalkan, Sandro Marcucci, Guiliano Milana, Fabrizio Mollaioli, Marco Olivieri, Roberto Paolucci, Dario Rinaldis et al.

5.Gas Flow Rate through Damaged Low Aspect Ratio Shearwalls
Tara C. Hutchinson and Ting Wang

6.A Proposed Rapid Visual Screening Procedure for Seismic Evaluation of RC-Frame Buildings in India
Sudhir K. Jain, Keya Mitra, Manish Kumar, and Mehul Shah

7.A Global Building Inventory for Earthquake Loss Estimation and Risk Management
Kishor Jaiswal, David Wald, and Keith Porter

8.Coupled Tuned Mass Dampers for the Seismic Control of Asymmetric-Plan Buildings
Jui-Liang Lin, Keh-Chyuan Tsai, and Yi-Jer Yu

9.Effects of Topographic Position and Geology on Shaking Damage to Residential Wood-Framed Structures during the 2003 San Simeon Earthquake, Western San Luis Obispo County, California
Timothy P. McCrink, Chris J. Wills, Charles R. Real, and Michael W. Manson

10.Site-Response Characteristics Evaluated from Strong Motion Records of the 2003 Boumerdes, Algeria, Earthquake
Abdelghani Meslem, Fumio Yamazaki, Yoshihisa Maruyama, Djillali Benouar, Nasser Laouami, and Nassima Benkaci

11.Probabilities of Exceeding Different Limit States for Buildings Subjected to Narrow-Band Ground Motions
Sonia E. Ruiz, Marco A. Montiel, and Moisés Arroyo

12.A Ground Motion Scaling Method Considering Higher-Mode Effects and Structural Characteristics
Yuan-Tao Weng, Keh-Chyuan Tsai, and Ya-Ran Chan

13.Modeling Post-Earthquake Functionality of Regional Health Care Facilities
Soheil Yavari, Stephanie E. Chang, and Kenneth J. Elwood

14. Technical Note - Cracking an Open Safe: Uncertainty in HAZUS-Based Seismic Vulnerability Functions
Keith Porter

15. book review - Viscoelastic Waves in Layered Media
Roger D. Borcherdt and Jacobo Bielak, Reviewer

16. Announcement - Park and Paulay Fund at the University of Canterbury
David Hopkins and Nigel Priestley

EARTHQUAKE SPECTRA, NOV 2010, VOLUME 26, ISSUE 4

1.Ground-Motion Attenuation Model for Small-To-Moderate Shallow Crustal Earthquakes in California and Its Implications on Regionalization of Ground-Motion Prediction Models
Brian Chiou, Robert Youngs, Norman Abrahamson, and Kofi Addo

2.Seismic Rehabilitation of Welded Steel Beam-to-Box Column Connections Utilizing Internal Flange Stiffeners
Chung-Che Chou and Chih-Kai Jao

3.Estimating Downtime from Data on Residential Buildings after the Northridge and Loma Prieta Earthquakes
Mary C. Comerio and Howard E. Blecher

4.Seismic Risk Assessment of Masonry Buildings in Istanbul for Effective Risk Mitigation
M. Altug Erberik

5.Minimization of Trigger Error in Cat-in-a-Box Parametric Earthquake Catastrophe Bonds with an Application to Costa Rica
Guillermo Franco

6.Vector-Valued Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Assessment for the Effects of Vertical Ground Motions on the Seismic Response of Highway Bridges
Zeynep Gülerce and Norman A. Abrahamson

7.An Empirical Model for Global Earthquake Fatality Estimation
Kishor Jaiswal and David Wald

8.Seismic Hazard Mapping of California Considering Site Effects
Erol Kalkan, Chris J. Wills, and David M. Branum

9.Reconnaissance Observation on Bridge Damage Caused by the 2008 Wenchuan (China) Earthquake
Chu-Chieh Jay Lin, Hsiao-Hui Hung, Kuang-Yen Liu, and Juin-Fu Chai

10.Post-Earthquake Housing Recovery in Bachhau, India: The Homeowner, the Renter, and the Squatter
Anuradha Mukherji

11.Evaluation of Design Review Process and Requirements for Seismic-Isolated Buildings
Keri L. Ryan, Lucy A. Arendt, and Desiray Larsen

12.Exploring the Proximity of Ground-Motion Models Using High-Dimensional Visualization Techniques
Frank Scherbaum, Nicolas M. Kuehn, Matthias Ohrnberger, and Andreas Koehler

Erratum: “Model for Basin Effects on Long-Period Response Spectra in Southern California” [Earthquake Spectra 24, 257–277 (2008)]
Steven M. Day, Robert Graves, Jacobo Bielak, Douglas Dreger, Shawn Larsen, Kim B. Olsen, Arben Pitarka, and Leonardo Ramirez-Guzman

Erratum: “The 8 June 2008 Mw 6.5 Achaia–Elia, Greece, Earthquake: Source Characteristics, Ground Motions, and Ground Failures” [Earthquake Spectra 26, 399–424 (2010)]
Basil Margaris, George Athanasopoulos, George Mylonakis, Christos Papaioannou, Nikolaos Klimis, Nikolaos Theodulidis, Alexandros Savvaidis, Vicky Efthymiadou, and Jonathan P. Stewart

EARTHQUAKE SPECTRA, FEB 2009, VOLUME 25, ISSUE 1

1.Comparison between Contemporary Architectural Form in Cities with High versus Low Seismicity
Andrew Charleson

2.Code-Oriented Damage Assessment for Buildings
William P. Graf and Yajie Lee

3.Prediction of Spectral Acceleration Response Ordinates Based on PGA Attenuation
Vladimir Graizer and Erol Kalkan

4.Performance of Suspended Pipes and Their Anchorages During Shake Table Testing of a Seven-Story Building
Matthew S. Hoehler, Marios Panagiotou, José I. Restrepo, John F. Silva, Lucas Floriani, Ulrich Bourgund, and Helmut Gassner

5.Principal Component Analysis for Predicting the Response of Nonlinear Base-Isolated Buildings
Sriram Narasimhan, Min Wang, and Mahesh Pandey

6.Retrofitted Bridge Fragility Analysis for Typical Classes of Multispan Bridges
Jamie E. Padgett and Reginald DesRoches

7.Assessment of Continuous Span Bridges through Nonlinear Static Procedures
Rui Pinho, Ricardo Monteiro, Chiara Casarotti, and Raimundo Delgado

8.Structural Performance of Stapled Wood Shear Walls Under Dynamic Cyclic Loads
Kenneth C. Talbot, Lawrence D. Reaveley, and Chris P. Pantelides

9.Preliminary Design of Low-Rise Buildings Stiffened with Buckling-Restrained Braces by a Displacement-Based Approach
Amador Teran-Gilmore and Neftali Virto-Cambray

Opinion papers

Should Building Codes Target Societal Risk?
Praveen K. Malhotra

Erratum: “Modeling Triple Friction Pendulum Bearings for Response History Analysis” [Earthquake Spectra 24, 1011–1028 (2008)]
Daniel M. Fenz and Michael C. Constantinou

EARTHQUAKE SPECTRA, MAY 2009, VOLUME 25, ISSUE 2

1.Evaluation of Simplified Methods for the Design of Bridges with Seismic Isolation Systems
Donatello Cardone, Mauro Dolce, and Giuseppe Palermo

2.Performance of School Buildings in Turkey During the 1999 Düzce and the 2003 Bingöl Earthquakes
Turel Gur, Ali Cihan Pay, Julio A. Ramirez, Mete A. Sozen, Arvid M. Johnson, Ayhan Irfanoglu, and Antonio Bobet

3.Broadband Simulation of Earthquake Ground Motion by a Spectrum-Matching, Multiple-Pulse Technique
Alexander A. Gusev and Victor M. Pavlov

4.Beam-on-Nonlinear-Winkler-Foundation Modeling of Shallow, Rocking-Dominated Footings
Chad W. Harden and Tara C. Hutchinson

5.Site Effects for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta
Tadahiro Kishida, Ross W. Boulanger, Norman A. Abrahamson, Michael W. Driller, and Timothy M. Wehling

6.The Assessment of Damage Limitation State in the Seismic Analysis of Monumental Buildings
Sergio Lagomarsino and Sonia Resemini

7.Experiments of Earthquake Early Warning to Expressway Drivers Using Synchronized Driving Simulators
Yoshihisa Maruyama, Fumio Yamazaki, and Masato Sakaya

8.Cracking an Open Safe: HAZUS Vulnerability Functions in Terms of Structure-Independent Spectral Acceleration
Keith Porter

9.Ground Motion Hazard and Scenario Design Earthquakes Including Source Rupture Effects, Case in Study: City of San Francisco
Badie Rowshandel

10.A Novel Technique of Seismic Strengthening of Nonductile RC Frame using Steel Caging and Aluminum Shear Yielding Damper
Dipti R. Sahoo and Durgesh C. Rai

11.Displacement-Based Seismic Assessment of Low-Height Confined Masonry Buildings
Amador Terán-Gilmore, Oscar Zuñiga-Cuevas, and Jorge Ruiz-García

Book reviews - Seismic Design for Architects: Outwitting the Quake by Andrew Charleson
Reviewed by Polat Gülkan

In memoriam - George Housner: A Personal Remembrance
Paul C. Jennings