Team Leader: John Wallace.
January 2012. Earthquake Engineering Research Institute.
The EERI reconnaissance team deployed to evaluate damage to engineered structures, with John Wallace of UCLA as team leader, was split into three groups: reinforced concrete buildings, structural steel buildings, and buildings with protective systems. This report discusses the building types in that order.
Read the Report: Performance of Engineered Structures in the Mw 9.0 Tohoku, Japan, Earthquake of March 11, 2011 (7.1 MB PDF)
