Seismic Criteria for California Marine Oil Terminals. Volume 2

The Navy and the California State Lands Commission entered into a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement for the development of seismic design criteria for waterfront construction. Both organizations face similar problems in the safe design of facilities and the need for a design guide. The California State Lands Commission (CSLC) has oversight of over sixty marine oil terminals, some of which are over eighty years old and built to unknown standards. Typically, they were built to resist minor earthquake intensity. New earthquake hazard information from recent events such as Loma Prieta (1989) and Northridge (1994) indicates that much higher intensities are possible. It is prudent that these facilities be evaluated and unsafe deficiencies corrected. This document develops and expands on work that was begun by the Naval Facilities Engineering Service Center to provide seismic design criteria for waterfront construction. This report presents criteria that are intended to define a minimum level of acceptable performance for marine oil terminals and seven chapters and three appendices of technical supporting material. The development of the criteria recognized the need to protect the environment from oil spills, the need to provide for the transfer of required natural resources into the State, and the economics of operating a commercial facility in a competitive structure. The development of this guide has taken the approach of providing reasonable and prudent levels of design consistent with the state-of- the-art of engineering practice. The document is intended to be dynamic in nature; it is expected that it will be revised and updated by the experience gained through usage.Naval Facilities Engineering Service Center Port Hueneme CA is the author of 'Seismic Criteria for California Marine Oil Terminals. Volume 2' with ISBN 9781423544180 and ISBN 1423544188.