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Meetings & Workshops : COSMOS Technical Sessions

2005 COSMOS Technical Session -

Recommendations for the Selection and Scaling of Ground Motion Time Histories for Building Code Applications

November 18, 2005
10:00 AM-5:00 PM
Westin Hotel
Millbrae, California

Schedule Title Authors
10:00 Welcome and Overview of Session

B. Bachman
10:15 Additional Remarks and Setting the Stage for the Session

N. Abrahamson
10:30 Current Code and Standard Requirements for the Selection and Scaling of Ground Motion Time Histories and Background on their Development

C. Kircher
11:00 Example of Current Code Procedure Applied to the Selection and Scaling of Ground Motion Time Histories at a Southern California Site
C. B. Crouse
11:30 Example of Current Code Procedure Applied to
the Selection and Scaling of Ground Motion
Time Histories at a Northern California Site
Mark Sinclair
Noon LUNCH

12:45 Recommendations for Selection and Scaling of
Ground Motion Records to Satisfy Code
Requirements including Spectrum Compatible
Scaling (Frequency Scaling)

N. Abrahamson
1:30 Record Selection Insights from the Study of
Epsilon and Inelastic Displacement: Use with
Deterministic Code Applications
C. Allin Cornell
2:00 Guidelines for the Selection, Modification and
Scaling of Ground Motion Time Histories
P. Somerville
2:30 Selection of Ground Motion Time Histories for
Code Applications Using the Peer Lifeline
Project Procedures

B. Youngs
3:00 BREAK

3:15 Panel Discussion

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

B. Bachman,
Moderator
4:45 Technical Session Wrap-up N. Abrahamson &
B. Bachman
5:00 Adjourn

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