Project Title:  National Earthquake Technical Assistance Program (NETAP) 

Client:  Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)

Purpose: The purpose of the ATC-66 Series is to deliver trainings to the public that increase local earthquake knowledge and support the effective implementation of earthquake risk reduction activities. The National Earthquake Technical Assistance Program (NETAP) provides training delivery to support the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program. Courses relate to a wide range of subjects, including schools, hospitals, residences, rapid visual screening, post-earthquake assessment, building codes, and nonstructural components. Each year, the ATC-66 Project hosts around 40 trainings and trains about 2,500 participants. These trainings, which take place in-person or virtually, are provided in about 20 U.S. states and territories.

Resources: For a list of 2023 NETAP Upcoming Training Courses, Useful Information, and Related Resources, please click here.

PROJECT OVERVIEW

Title:14th U.S.-Japan Workshop on the Improvement of Structural Design and Construction Practices

Project Status: This Workshop was conducted on December 3-5, 2012

Sponsors: Applied Technology Council (ATC) and Japan Structural Consultants Association (JSCA)

PROJECT SUMMARY

The Purpose of the Workshop is to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas and information relating to the improvement of current building design and construction practices in the United States and Japan. The special focus of this Workshop will be on issues relating to the performance of buildings and other structures in severe earthquakes, including the effects of tsunami, and response and recovery.

The Workshop is the 14th in a series started in 1984, and repeated every two-to-three years. Previous workshops have been held in California (San Diego and San Francisco), Hawaii (Honolulu, Kauai, Kona, Kohala Coast, and Maui), Japan (Kobe and Tokyo), and Victoria, British Columbia.

Workshop Participants.  The Workshop Participants included those with a background in building performance and other structures in severe earthquakes, including the effects of tsunami, and response and recovery.

Workshop Program.  The Workshop Program was designed for practicing structural engineers and researchers, and included technical presentations, and working group breakout sessions and discussions. Papers and presentations were as follows:

Paper Number	Paper Title	Author	Presentation	Paper
1.	Brief Review of Building Damage by the 2011 Tohoku Japan Earthquake and Following Coping Activities	Isao Nishiyama*, Izuru Okawa, Hiroshi Fukuyama, and Yasuo Okuda
2.	Structural Analysis Case Studies of Buildings Damaged During the Tohoku Tsunami	Lyle Carden*, G. Chock, I. Robertson, and G. Yu
3.	Categorization of Damage to Buildings Caused by the March 2011 Tsunami	Hiroshi Fukuyama*, Y. Okuda, H. Kato, T. Ishihara, S. Tajiri, T. Kabeyasawa, and M. Tani
4.	Current Tsunami Design Guidance in the United States – FEMA P-646 (2012)	Ian N. Robertson*
5.	Structural Design Requirement on the Tsunami Evacuation Buildings	Hiroshi Fukuyama*, Y. Okuda, H. Kato, T. Ishihara, S. Tajiri, T. Kabeyasawa, and Y. Nakano
6.	ASCE 7 and the Development of a Tsunami Building Code for the U.S.	Gary Chock *
7.	Performance of Base-Isolated Buildings During the 2011 East Japan Earthquake	Yoshikazu Fukusawa*
8.	Drift Issues of Tall Buildings under the March 11, 2011 M9.0 Tohoku Earthquake, Japan - Implications	Mehmet Celebi*
9.	Performance of Seismically Isolated Buildings due to 2011 Tohoku Earthquake	Mineo Takayama*
10.	Countermeasures for Long-Period Ground Motion	Takaharu Fukuda*, N. Koshika, and H. Kitamura
11.	Dynamic Instability in High-Rise Steel Structures Subjected to Strong Ground Motions: A Review	Kohji Ikago*
12.	Simulated Earthquake Ground Motion for Structural Design	Satoru Nagase*
13.	The 2010-2011 Canterbury New Zealand Earthquakes and the Emergency Management of Buildings and Infrastructure	Peter R. Wood*, D. Brunsdon, J. Hare, M. Stannard, and B. Galloway
14.	The Effectiveness of Post-Earthquake Building Safety Evaluations Carried out in the Canterbury Earthquake Sequence and Proposals for Future Development	Bruce Galloway*, D. Brunsdon, J. Hare, M. Stannard, and P. Wood
15.	Lessons from the Postearthquake Safety Evaluation in the 2010-2011 Christchurch, New Zealand Earthquakes and Implications for Updating ATC-20	Bret Lizundia* and R. Gallagher
16.	Seismic Evaluation and Retrofit of Old Buildings Located Along the Specific Emergency Transportation Roads in Tokyo	Toshio Okoshi*
17.	Recovery Cooperation for Padang Earthquake Damage by Seismic Isolation Buildings Design	Takayuki Teramoto*
18.	Some Examples of Plan and Activity in Re-Construction from the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake	Mitsuru Kawamura*
19.	Building Seismically Resilient Communities by Effective Seismic Risk Reduction and Disaster Reconstruction Programs	H. Kit Miyamoto* and Amir S.J. Gilani
20.	Special Presentation:  52-Year Application of Seismic Provisions to Major Research Facilities	Roland Sharpe*
21.	Transparent Global Earthquake Risk and Loss Estimation	Nicole Keller* and H. K. Miyamoto
22.	Performance of Buildings under the Coming Mid-size Earthquake Beneath Tokyo Metropolitan Area	Yozo Shinozaki*
23.	Risk Management and Loss Estimation Lessons from the Real World	Peter Yanev* and A. Yanev
24.	San Francisco’s Community Action Plan for Seismic Safety	Christopher Rojahn*, L. Kornfield, L. Tobin, and L. Samant
25.	Seismic Actions of Nonstructural Components	Hiroshi Ito*
26.	The Horizon for Next-Generation Performance Assessment of Buildings is Here:  FEMA P-58	Jon A. Heintz*
27.	Use of Performance Based Engineering Criteria in Motivating Residential Seismic Retrofit	Kelly Cobeen
28.	Seismic Dampers:  How High Performance Devices Change the World	H. Kit Miyamoto and A. M. Gilani
29.	Performance Evaluation of a Building Structure with Nonlinear Dampers under Strong Ground Motion on March 11, 2011	Isao Nishimura*
30.	Seismic Retrofit of Ductile Concrete Moment-Resisting Frames With Innovative Pin-Supported Wall System	Hiroyasu Sakata, Z. Qu, S. Midorikawa, and A. Wada
31.	Seismic Retrofit of the Tower Structure with Viscous Dampers	Nobuyuki Kurauchi*
32.	Mission, Goals and Social Responsibility of Structural Engineers	Akira Wada*

*Presenting Author

PROJECT OVERVIEW

Title: Community Action Plan for Seismic Safety (CAPSS) Project

Client: San Francisco Department of Building Inspection (DBI)

Status: Completed in 2010

Final Products: Available through the ATC office and for download at the link below.

Potential Earthquake Impacts (ATC-52-1 Report), which focuses on estimating impacts to the City’s privately owned buildings in future earthquakes; and the companion Technical Documentation volume (ATC-52-1A Report), which contains descriptions of the technical analyses that were conducted to produce the impact estimates;

A Community Action Plan for Seismic Safety (ATC-52-2 Report), which recommends policies to reduce earthquake risk in privately owned buildings of all types;

Earthquake Safety for Soft-Story Buildings (ATC-52-3 Report), which describes the risk of one vulnerable building type and recommends policies to reduce that risk, and the companion Documentation Appendices volume (ATC-52-3A Report), which details the technical methods and data used to develop the policy recommendations and related analyses; and

Post-earthquake Repair and Retrofit Requirements (ATC-52-4 Report), which recommends clarifications as to how owners should repair and strengthen their damaged buildings after an earthquake.

PROJECT SUMMARY

ATC-52-2 Project.  The Community Action Plan for Seismic Safety (CAPSS) project of the San Francisco Department of Building Inspection (DBI), carried out by ATC, was created to provide DBI and other City agencies and policymakers with a plan of action or policy road map to reduce earthquake risks in existing, privately-owned buildings that are regulated by the Department, and also to develop repair and rebuilding guidelines that will expedite recovery after an earthquake. Risk reduction activities will only be implemented and will only succeed if they make sense financially, culturally and politically, and are based on technically sound information. CAPSS engaged community leaders, earth scientists, social scientists, economists, tenants, building owners, and engineers to find out which mitigation approaches make sense in all of these ways and could, therefore, be good public policy.

Early phases of the CAPSS project, which commenced in 2000, involved planning and conducting an initial earthquake impacts study.  The final phase of work, which is described and documented in the report series, Here Today—Here Tomorrow: The Road to Earthquake Resilience in San Francisco, began in April of 2008 and was completed at the end of 2010.

Six CAPSS reports are available in the series, Here Today—Here Tomorrow: The Road to Earthquake Resilience in San Francisco:

• Potential Earthquake Impacts (ATC-52-1 Report), which focuses on estimating impacts to the City’s privately owned buildings in future earthquakes; and the companion Technical Documentation volume (ATC-52-1A Report), which contains descriptions of the technical analyses that were conducted to produce the impact estimates;
• A Community Action Plan for Seismic Safety (ATC-52-2 Report), which recommends policies to reduce earthquake risk in privately owned buildings of all types;
• Earthquake Safety for Soft-Story Buildings (ATC-52-3 Report), which describes the risk of one vulnerable building type and recommends policies to reduce that risk, and the companion Documentation Appendices volume (ATC-52-3A Report), which details the technical methods and data used to develop the policy recommendations and related analyses; and
• Post-earthquake Repair and Retrofit Requirements (ATC-52-4 Report), which recommends clarifications as to how owners should repair and strengthen their damaged buildings after an earthquake.

All six reports and other information about the CAPSS project are available here.

PROJECT OVERVIEW

Title: Technical Assistance and Documentation of Case Studies, FEMA Guidelines for the Design of Structures for Vertical Evacuation From Tsunamis

Client: Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)

Status: Completed in May 2012.

Participants: To see a list of project participants, click here.

Related Projects and Reports: The final product of the ATC-79/79-1 project is an updated version of the FEMA P-646 Report, Guidelines for the Design of Structures for Vertical Evacuation From Tsunamis (published in 2008, prepared for FEMA by ATC). 

PROJECT SUMMARY

This project involved the technical review and update of the FEMA P-646 Report,Guidelines for the Design of Structures for Vertical Evacuation From Tsunamis.  Following its publication in 2008, the document was used in conceptual design studies as part of tsunami evacuation planning in Cannon Beach, Oregon and the document’s design guidance was evaluated in ongoing research related to the development of Performance-Based Tsunami Engineering conducted at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, under the National Science Foundation-sponsored George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) program.  Based on findings from these activities, FEMA initiated a follow-up project with ATC in 2009 to review the design guidance contained in FEMA P-646, and to consider updates, if needed, based on this new information.  As a result of this review, selected revisions were deemed necessary.  In March 2011, the devastating Tohoku tsunami struck Japan, providing a wealth of additional information that could be considered for inclusion in the update of the FEMA P-646 Report. 

The project was completed in May 2012, with the issuance of a Second Edition of the FEMA P-646 Report.  Technical updates contained in this Second Edition include: (1) observations and lessons learned from the March 11, 2011 Tohoku tsunami; (2) revision of the debris impact expression to remove over-conservatism deemed to be present in the prior edition; (3) additional explanation of the definition of tsunami elevation as it relates to run-up elevation used in tsunami force equations; and (4) an update of reference documents to the most current version.

The final product of this project is an updated FEMA P-646 Report, Guidelines for the Design of Structures for Vertical Evacuation From Tsunamis, Second Edition.  The FEMA P-646 report is available for free download here.