SEAOC Blue Book:
Seismic Design Recommendations
of the SEAOC Seismology Committee
Welcome to the Blue Book, the new edition of SEAOC’s signature publication. Over the next several months, the Seismology Committee will be posting new articles.

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0. Reference Materials
0.01.010 Preface to Online Edition Preface
February 2007
  
0.02.010 Glossary of Acronyms Glossary, Acronyms
February 2007
  
0.02.020 Earthquake Design Codes and Standards Design, Codes, Standards
 
  
0.02.030 Master Reference List Reference, Bibliography, List
 
  
1. Philosophies Of Earthquake Design
1.02.010 Development of Earthquake Design Provisions for Building Codes ASCE 7, ATC 3-06, Blue Book, BSSC, Building code, CBC, IBC, ICBO, NEHRP Provisions, Seismology Committee, Standards, UBC, Earthquake, Design
 
  
2. Quality Assurance
2.01.010 Earthquake Design Documentation Earthquake Design
October 2006
  
3. Ground Motion Characterization
4. Seismic Force Resisting Systems
4.01.010 Seismic Force-Resisting Systems Bearing Wall Systems, Building Frame Systems, Combined Systems, Deflection Amplification Factor - Cd., Dual Systems, Ductility, Height Limits, Overstrength Factor, Omega-0 Response, Modification Factor, R Factor, Seismic Design Categories, Seismic Force-Resisting System, SFRS, Special Steel Truss Frames, Steel Concentrically-braced Frames, Steel Moment-resisting Frames, Torsion, Vertical Load-carrying System
 
  
4.02.040 Combined Systems Combined Systems, Deflection Amplification Factor, Cd., Lines of Resistance, Overstrength Factor, Omega0, Response Modification Factor, R Factor, Seismic Force-Resisting System, SFRS
 
  
5. Element Checks and Design
6. Nonstructural Components
6.03.010 Fire Sprinkler Piping Fire Sprinklers, Nonstructural, Piping, Water Leakage
 
  
7. Foundations
7.01.010 Foundation Overview Foundation
October 2006
  
8. Steel
8.01.010 Steel Design Overview Overview, Steel, Requirements
 
  
8.03.010 Staggered Truss Frames Staggered Truss Frames
September 2006
  
9. Concrete
10. Composite Structures
11. Masonry
12. Wood and Light Frame
12.03.020 Wood Framed Shear Walls With Openings Wood Framed Shear Walls
February 2007
  
13. Seismic Isolation
14. Energy Dissipation Devices
15. Non-building Structions

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