Project Title: Investigation of Project 17 Duration Effects
Funding Source: ATC Endowment Fund
Purpose: To support the FEMA-funded Project 17 effort that is examining the basis for the national seismic design value maps and the design procedures that reference them, in preparation for the 2020 Provisions update cycle. This work will investigate the effects of duration on building response and collapse behavior, which is a topic that is not currently funded within the Project 17 scope of work.
Project Title: AISC-ATC Workshop on Performance-Based Structural-Fire Engineering
Client: American Institute of Steel Construction; Applied Technology Council
Purpose: To build on ATC’s London Forum on performance-based structure-fire engineering to answer questions related to benefits and incentives for performance-based structural fireengineering, cost savings, barriers to implementation in the United States, and strategies for implementation.
Project Title: Building Technical Capacity in Central Asia to Design Risk-Informed Public Infrastructure Investments at Scale
Client: World Bank
Purpose: To provide technical support to World Bank’s safer school initiatives in Central Asia.
Resources for Performance-Based Assessment and Nonlinear Analysis for World-Bank ATC-148 Project, Building Technical Capacity in Central Asia to Design Risk-Informed Public Infrastructure Investments at Scale
This project produced the following report:
ATC-148, Methodology for Developing Efficient Investment Strategies for Safer and Resilient Schools
Project Title: Computational Models for Large Outdoor Fires Roadmap Workshop
Client: National Institute of Standards and Technology
Purpose: To conduct a technical solutions workshop for modeling large outdoor fires and prepare a research needs report.
This project produced the Large Outdoor Fire Modeling 2019 Workshop Summary Report.
Project Title: Steel Buildings in the Central and Eastern United States Designed for Controlling Wind Loads to Evaluate their Seismic Performance
Client: National Institute of Standards and Technology
Purpose: The purpose of this project was to document structural designs to enable research studies on seismic performance of buildings when the controlling design load is from wind effects. Designs were developed for: (1) a 12-story office building in Savannah, Georgia; (2) a 7-story healthcare building in Long Island, New York; and (3) a 3-story education building in St. Louis, Missouri. Buildings were designed with older and current building codes for the specified locations within the Central and Eastern United States by engineers serving as consultants to ATC. The project resulted in publication of NIST GCR 21-917-48 in six volumes:
NIST 21-917-48, Seismic Design of Archetype Steel Buildings in Central and Eastern United States
NIST 21-917-48v1A, Volume 1A: 12-story Office Building in Savannah, Georgia Building Designs
NIST 21-917-48v1B, Volume 1B: 12-story Office Building in Savannah, Georgia Supplementary Documentation
NIST 21-917-48v2A, Volume 2A: 12-story Office Building in Long Island, New York Building Designs
NIST 21-917-48v2B, Volume 2B: 12-story Office Building in Long Island, New York Supplementary Documentation
NIST 21-917-48v3A, Volume 3A: 12-story Office Building in St. Louis, Missouri Building Designs
NIST 21-917-48v3B, Volume 3B: 12-story Office Building in St. Louis, Missouri Supplementary Documentation
