Seismic Design Guide for Confined Masonry Buildings
Acknowledgments
These guidelines were prepared by a committee of international experts, led by Roberto Meli of Mexico and Svetlana Brzev of Canada. Other committee members were: Maximiliano Astroza, Chile; Teddy Boen, Indonesia; Francisco Crisafulli, Argentina; Junwu Dai, China; Mohammed Farsi, Algeria; Tim Hart, USA; Ahmed Mebarki, France; A.S. Moghadam, Iran; Daniel Quiun, Peru; Miha Tomazevic, Slovenia; and Luis Yamin, Colombia.
Particular thanks are due to Leonardo Flores and Miguel Angel Pacheco, research engineers at the National Centre for Disaster Prevention, Mexico City. They were responsible for compiling many of the codes that were reviewed as part of this project, conducting some of the analyses and preparing the drawings and figures.
The authors gratefully acknowledge comments and suggestions made by Sergio Alcocer (Mexico), Richard Klingner (USA), and Durgesh Rai (India), who were external reviewers for this document. Detailed review comments by Andrew Charleson, Editor-in-Chief of the World Housing Encyclopedia, contributed to the quality of the document and are gratefully appreciated. The authors would also like to thank Bill McEwen of the Masonry Institute of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, Arturo Tena Colunga, and Greg Hale, SWBR, Rochester, NY, USA who reviewed this document and gave very useful comments.
The authors would also like to acknowledge the financial support of Risk Management Solutions in the early stages of this project, and in particular the enthusiastic support received from Sahar Safaie. The authors also acknowledge the ongoing support of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute and the staff member Marjorie Greene. The authors appreciate assistance by Michael Germeraad, EERI Graduate Intern, in the editing stage of this publication. Special thanks are due the National Information Centre of Earthquake Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, for allowing us to incorporate part of one of their publications on confined masonry, authored by co-chair Svetlana Brzev.
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