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Meetings & Workshops : COSMOS Technical Sessions

2006 COSMOS Technical Session -

Evaluation of Methods for the Selection and Modification of Ground Motion Time
Histories for Building Code and PBEE Applications

November 17, 2006
10:00 AM-5:00 PM
Doubletree Hotel
Berkeley, California

Schedule Title Authors
10:00 Welcome and Overview of Session

B. Bachman
10:10 Overview of Selection and Scaling Issues

N. Abrahamson
10:30 Example of Wide Dispersion of Results following Code Procedure

J. Watson-Lamprey
10:45 ATC-63 (The R factor project): Selection and Scaling Procedure and What It Is Trying to Achieve

C. Kircher
11:00 Selection and Scaling of Ground Motions per the ATC-58 Procedures

R. Hamburger
11:05 ATC-58 (Next Generation PBEE): Selection and Scaling Procedure and What It Is Trying to Achieve

A. Whittaker
11:25 Breaking the Uniform Hazard Spectra into Component Scenario Events: the Effect of Epsilon on Structural Response

J. Baker
11:45 LUNCH

Noon COSMOS Annual Meeting

J. F. Davis
12:45 PEER Ground Motion Selection and Scaling
Working Group

Y. Bozorgnia,
N. Abrahamson,
J. Watson-Lamprey
C. Haselton
3:00 BREAK

3:15 Panel Discussion

B. Bachman, Moderator
4:00 Open Discussion: Audience / Panel Interaction

B. Bachman,
Moderator
4:30 Technical Session Wrap-up N. Abrahamson &
B. Bachman
5:00 Adjourn
5:00 No host cocktail hour + hors d’oeuvres + poster
session

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