Rapid Visual Screening of Buildings for Potential Seismic Hazards: Supporting Documentation

Rapid Visual Screening of Buildings for Potential Seismic Hazards: Supporting Documentation
Author:
Publisher: Government Printing Office
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2015
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780160926754

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 comprises a method and several forms that help users to quickly identify, inventory, and score buildings according to their risk of collapse if hit by major earthquakes. The RVS handbook describes how to identify the structural type and key weakness characteristics, how to complete the screening forms, and how to manage a successful RVS program.

Taylor's Legislative History and Souvenir of Connecticut

Taylor's Legislative History and Souvenir of Connecticut
Author: William Harrison Taylor
Publisher:
Total Pages: 412
Release: 1899
Genre: Connecticut
ISBN:

"Portraits and sketches of state officials, senators, representatives, etc. ... List of committees. Portraits and roll of delegates to Constitutional convention of 1902." The proposed constitution and the vote

The J. Paul Getty Museum and Its Collections

The J. Paul Getty Museum and Its Collections
Author: John Walsh
Publisher: Getty Publications
Total Pages: 306
Release: 1997-12-04
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0892364769

Provides a history of the buildings that have housed the Getty Museum collections, overviews the collections themselves, and offers a biography of J. Paul Getty