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Rapid Visual Screening of Buildings for Potential Seismic Hazards: A Handbook
Contributor(s): Federal Emergency Management Agency (Editor)
ISBN: 0160941504     ISBN-13: 9780160941504
Publisher: Federal Emergency Management Agency
OUR PRICE:   $61.75  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: August 2017
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BISAC Categories:
- Technology & Engineering | Structural
- Science | Earth Sciences - Seismology & Volcanism
- Science | System Theory
Physical Information: (2.50 lbs) 388 pages
 
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Publisher Description:
The Rapid Visual Screening (RVS) handbook can be used by trained personnel to identify, inventory, and screen buildings that are potentially seismically vulnerable. The RVS procedure compromises a method and several forms that help users to quickly identify, inventory, and score buildings according to the risk of collapse if hit by major earthquakes. This third edition includes extensive updates including:
  • Update of the Basic Scores and Score Modifiers
  • Update of the ground motion definitions
  • Preparation of additional reference guides
  • Inclusion of additional building types that are prevalent
  • Inclusion of additional considerations, such as nonstructural hazards, existing retrofits, building additions, and adjacency
  • Addition of an optional electronic scoring methodology
  • and more.
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