Tall Buildings Initiative Task 6 - Guidelines on selection and modification of ground motions for design

Task description – Using findings from Tasks 3 through 5, write guidelines for selection and modification of ground motions for design of tall buildings. Apply recommendations to virtual sites in San Francisco and Los Angeles to demonstrate procedures and to establish a sample set of validated ground motions that can be used in subsequent research or for design of tall buildings.

Lead investigators – Yousef Bozorgnia and Nico Luco

Team members – Farzad Naeim, John Hooper, Norm Abrahamson, Joe Maffei

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