Browse by Topic - Lifelines

This collection contains nearly 150 peer-reviewed papers presented at the 2009 Technical Council on Lifeline Earthquake Engineering (TCLEE) Conference, held in Oakland, CA, June 28-July 1, 2009.

Standard ANSI/ASCE/SEI 25-06 provides current minimum functionality requirements for earthquake-actuated automatic gas shut-off devices and systems.

TCLEE Monograph 30 summarizes the observations of damage to lifeline infrastructure systems caused by the Sumatra-Andaman Island earthquake of December 26, 2004.

This report assesses the impact of Hurricane Katrina upon coastal, port, harbor, and marine infrastructure, including levees, in the states of Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi.

This report focuses on the direct physical causes and contributing factors to the failures of the hurricane protection system during and after Hurricane Katrina.

TCLEE Monograph 29 discusses in detail the performance of transportation infrastructure systems along the Gulf Coast during and after Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
 

MOP 111 provides state-of the-art technical information on the design of utility pole structures.

TCLEE Monograph 26 covers the entire range of fire following earthquake issues, from historical fires to 20th-century fires in Kobe, San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley, and Northridge.

This primer describes the current state of seismic isolation technology and highlights issues and concerns that are unique to the design of isolated structures.
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TCLEE Monograph 28 provides a record of lifeline infrastructure performance during the two most damaging U.S. earthquakes at the start of 21st century, the December 22, 2003 earthquake near San Simeon, California, and the November 3, 2002 earthquake near Denali, Alaska.