Events

• – Annual Conference of Los Angeles Tall Building Structural Design Council (LATBSDC) - May 8, 2009, Los Angeles, CA
  • – The PEER Tall Buildings Initiative Guidelines - Jack Moehle (pdf file - 9.78 MB)
  • – The Tall Buildings Initiative Introduction to PEER/CSSC Case Studies - Yousef Bozorgnia (pdf file - 1.14 MB)
  • – PEER/SSC Tall Building Design - Tony Ghodsi (pdf file - 3.71 MB)
  • – PEER/CSSC Tall Building Design Case Study Building #1 - J. Andrew Fry, John Hooper, Ron Klemencic (pdf file - 2.27 MB)
  • – Case Study of a 40 Story BRBF Building Located in Los Anegeles - Anindya Dutta, Ronald O. Hamburger (pdf file - 3.2 MB)
• – 14th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering (14WCEE) - October 12-17, 2008, Beijing, China
  • – The Tall Buildings Initiative - Tony Yang, Yousef Bozorgnia, Jack Moehle (PDF file - 600 KB)
  • – Performance-Based Seismic Design of Tall Buildings in The U.S. - Jack Moehle (PDF file - 498 KB)
  • – Challenges in Specifying Ground Motions for Design of Tall Buildings in High Seismic Regions of the United States - Marshall Lew, Farzad Naeim, Martin B. Hudson, Boris O. Korin (PDF file - 359 KB)
• – SEAONC 2008 Convention - September 22-27, 2008, Hawaii
• – LA Tall Buildings Meeting - September 19, 2008, Los Angeles, CA
• - Annual Meeting of LA Tall Buildings Structural Design Council, co-sponsored by LATBSDC & PEER - May 9, 2008, Los Angeles, CA
  • – Agenda (PDF file - 180 KB)
• • Presentation files
  • – Scraping the Sky - Jack Moehle (JPG file - 1.7 MB)
  • – Interim Guidelines on Modeling and Acceptance Criteria for Seismic Design and Analysis of Tall Buildings - Jon Heintz (PDF file - 64 KB)
  • – Modeling Guidelines for Nonlinear Analysis - Gregory Deierlein, Helmut Krawinkler (PowerPoint file - 2.86 MB)
  • – Case studies to characterize the seismic demands for high-rise buildings - Tony Yang, Jack Moehle, Steve Mahin, John Hooper, Yousef Bozorgnia, Colleen McQuoid (PowerPoint file - 2.64 MB)
  • – Modeling Issues Associated with Deterioration - Helmut Krawinkler (PDF file - 950 KB)
  • – Nonlinear Modeling of RC Beam-Columns & Joints - Gregory Deierlein (PDF file - 2.2 MB)
  • – ATC-72 Report – Chapter 4 - Modeling of Core Walls Systems and Components - John Wallace, Marisol Salas, David Naish (PDF file - 1.1 MB)
  • – Floor diaphragms, collectors, and podium and backstay effects in tall buildings - Joe Maffei (PDF file - 2.1 MB)
• – CSMIP 2008 Seminar
  • – Ground Motion Tasks in the Tall Buildings Initiative - Yousef Bozorgnia, Jack Moehle (PDF file - 1.5 MB)
• – Gary Hart Journal
• – LA Tall Buildings 2007 Annual Meeting - Jack Moehle, Yousef Bozorgnia (PDF file - 5 MB)
• – 8th Pacific Conference on Earthquake Engineering
  • – Performance-Based Seismic Design of Tall Buildings in the United States - Jack Moehle (PDF file - 19.5 MB)
  • – Performance-Based Seismic Design of Tall Buildings in the United States - Jack Moehle (PDF file - 450 KB)
• – PEER/SCEC Invitational Workshop on Ground Motion and Structural Simmulations for Tall Buildings - November 2, 2007, UC Berkeley
  • – Ground Motion Simulation - Brad Aagaard (PDF file - 4.7 MB)
  • – Numerical Ground Motion Simulations: Assumptions, Verification And Validation (PDF file - 882 KB)
  • – Ground Motion Simulations For Scenario Earthquakes - Rob Graves (PDF file - 12 MB)
  • – Nonlinear Response - History Analysis in Design Practice - Joe Maffei (PDF file - 13.3 MB)
  • – Peer-Scec Workshop on Ground Motion Simulation and Building Response Simulation - Paul somerville (PDF file - 328 KB)
• – EERI 2007 Annual Meeting
• – 2007 Convention of the Structural Engineers Association of California
  • – The Tall Buildings Initiative - SEAOC 2007 (PDF file - 1.1 MB)
• – L.A. Tall Buildings Structural Design Council 2007 Annual Meeting
  • – Input Ground Motions for Tall Buildings with Subterranean Levels - J. Stewart and S. Tileylioglu - UCLA (PDF file - 864 KB)
  • – The Tall Buildings Initiative for Alternative Seismic Design - J. Moehle - UC Berkeley (PDF file - 379 KB)
  • – Buildings over 240 ft - J. Moehle - UC Berkeley (PDF file - 3.63 MB)
  • – Ground Motion Selection, Modification and Simulation for Seismic Analysis of Tall Buildings: Status Report - Yousef Bozorgnia, PEER, Nicolas Luco, USGS, Farzad Naeim, JAMA, Paul Somerville, URS (PDF file - 3.4 MB)
• – University of Kansas Structural Conference (March 2007)
• – 1997 Uniform Building Code - J. Moehle - UC Berkeley (PDF file - 6.5 MB)
• – Task 2 - Workshop April 18, 2007
  • – Description and Purpose of Task 2 (PDF file - 100 KB)
  • – Summary of Survey Results (PDF file - 144 KB)
  • – Interview Process (PDF file - 132 KB)
  • – Background of Seismic Codes and Performance Expectations (PDF file - 17.6 MB)