Final Report of the Getty Seismic Adobe Project

E. Leroy Tolles, Edna E. Kimbro, and William S. Ginell; 2000

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This book describes tests performed on model adobe buildings to evaluate seismic damage mitigation techniques applicable to the retrofitting of historic and culturally significant adobe structures. Part of the GCI's Getty Seismic Adobe Project (GSAP), the three-year program outlined in this volume was designed to develop and test minimally invasive, inexpensive, and easily implemented methods of protecting such structures from severe earthquake damage. Small- and large-scale models were tested on computer-controlled shaking tables at Stanford University and at the IIZIS Earthquake Engineering Laboratory in the Republic of Macedonia, respectively. The authors identify typical failure modes of adobe structures and describe specific retrofit techniques to help minimize such failures. Extensive photographic documentation is included.

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Tolles, E. Leroy, Edna E. Kimbro, Frederick A. Webster, and William S. Ginell. 2000. Seismic Stabilization of Historic Adobe Structures: Final Report of the Getty Seismic Adobe Project. GCI Scientific Program Reports. Los Angeles, CA: Getty Conservation Institute. http://hdl.handle.net/10020/gci_pubs/seismic_stabilization