Seismic safety

Seismic safety

Terms relating to the constuction of buildings that can withstand earthquakes.

Contributors in Seismic safety

Seismic safety

Lumber is typically referred to by size classifications. Additionally, lumber is specified by manufacturing classification. Rough lumber and dressed lumber are two of the routinely used manufacturing ...

Load and resistance factor design (LRFD)

Construction; Seismic safety

A method of proportioning structural components (members, connectors, connecting elements, and assemblages) using load and resistance factors such that no applicable limit state is exceeded when the ...

Load/slip constant

Construction; Seismic safety

The ratio of the applied load to a connexion and the resulting lateral deformation of the connexion in the direction of the applied load.

Liquefaction

Construction; Seismic safety

An earthquake-induced process in which saturated, loose, granular soils lose a substantial amount of shear strength as a result of increase in pore-water pressure during earthquake shaking.

Link rotation angle

Construction; Seismic safety

The angle of plastic rotation between the link and the beam outside of the link derived using the specified base shear, V.

Link

Construction; Seismic safety

In an EBF, the segment of a beam that extends from column to brace, located between the end of a diagonal brace and a column, or between the ends of two diagonal braces of the EBF. The length of the ...