Seismic safety manual : a practical guide for facility managers and earthquake engineers.

"A contribution to the International Decade of Earthquake Hazards Reduction"--Cover

Includes bibliographical references

UCRL-MA-125085

"Public policy and acceptable risk -- Introduction -- The facility manager's role in earthquake safety -- Earthquake damage -- Types of damage -- Assessment of damage -- Seismic design and evaluation requirements for DOE facilities -- Guidelines for using DOE orders and standards for earthquake safety -- DOE natural phenomena hazards mitigation requirements and standards -- Site-use planning for earthquake safety -- Site evaluation -- Seismic design of new facilities -- Conventional analysis and design -- Dynamic analysis applications -- Soil-structure interaction -- Seismic isolation and passive energy-dissipation systems -- Evaluation of existing buildings -- Evaluation guidelines -- Evaluation methodologies -- Seismic retrofit of buildings -- Retrofit guidelines -- Retrofit methodologies -- Seismic isolation and passive energy dissipation for building retrofit -- Seismic evaluat