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Description of ASTM-E2026 2016ASTM E2026-16aHistorical Standard: Standard Guide for Seismic Risk Assessment of BuildingsASTM E2026Scope 1.1 This guide provides guidance on conducting seismic risk assessments for buildings. As such, this guide assists a User to assess a property's potential for losses from earthquake occurrences. 1.1.1 Hazards addressed in this guide include: 1.1.1.1 Earthquake ground shaking, 1.1.1.2 Earthquake-caused site instability, including fault rupture, landslides, soil liquefaction, lateral spreading and settlement, and 1.1.1.3 Earthquake-caused off-site response impacting the property, including flooding from dam or dike failure, tsunamis and seiches. 1.1.2 This guide does not address the following: 1.1.2.1 Earthquake-caused fires and toxic materials releases. 1.1.2.2 Federal, state, or local laws and regulations of building construction or maintenance. Users are cautioned that current federal, state, and local laws and regulations may differ from those in effect at the time of the original construction of the building(s). 1.1.2.3 Preservation of life safety. 1.1.2.4 Prevention of building damage. 1.1.2.5 Contractual and legal obligations between prior and subsequent Users of seismic risk assessment reports or between Providers who prepared the report and those who would like to use such prior reports. 1.1.2.6 Contractual and legal obligations between a Provider and a User, and other parties, if any. 1.1.3 It is the responsibility of the User of this guide to establish appropriate life safety and damage prevention practices and determine the applicability of current regulatory limitations prior to use. 1.2 The objectives of this guide are: 1.2.1 To synthesize and document guidelines for seismic risk assessment of buildings; 1.2.2 To encourage standardized seismic risk assessments; 1.2.3 To establish guidelines for field observations of the site and physical conditions, and the document review and research considered appropriate, practical, sufficient, and reasonable for seismic risk assessment; 1.2.4 To establish guidelines on what reasonably can be expected of and delivered by a Provider in conducting the seismic risk assessment of buildings; and 1.2.5 To establish guidelines by which a Provider can communicate to the User observations, opinions, and conclusions in a manner that is meaningful and not misleading either by content or by omission. 1.3 The values stated in inch-pound units are to be regarded as standard. The values given in parentheses are mathematical conversions to SI units that are provided for information only and are not considered standard. Keywords ICS Code ICS Number Code 91.120.25 (Seismic and vibration protection) DOI: 10.1520/E2026-16A This book also exists in the following packages...Subscription InformationMADCAD.com ASTM Standards subscriptions are annual and access is unlimited concurrency based (number of people that can access the subscription at any given time) from single office location. For pricing on multiple office location ASTM Standards Subscriptions, please contact us at info@madcad.com or +1 800.798.9296.
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