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Real-time seismic monitoring of instrumented hospital buildings

Erol Kalkan·Jon Peter B. Fletcher·William S. Leith·William S. McCarthy·Krishna Banga
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In collaboration with the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), the U.S. Geological Survey's National Strong Motion Project has recently installed sophisticated seismic monitoring systems to monitor the structural health of two hospital buildings at the Memphis VA Medical Center in Tennessee. The monitoring systems in the Bed Tower and Spinal Cord Injury buildings combine sensing technologies with an on-site computer to capture and analyze seismic performance of buildings in near-real time.

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Erol Kalkan, Jon Peter B. Fletcher, William S. Leith, William S. McCarthy, Krishna Banga. 2012. Real-time seismic monitoring of instrumented hospital buildings. https://doi.org/10.3133/fs20123028

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