Design Aid Tools & Technical Documents

Visit this page regularly for updated design aid tools, where engineering professionals can find state of the art applications developed by our engineers, along with links to web applications and useful links to technical publications by others.

What we all do for ourselves, will eventually die with us, but what we do for others might change hands and become a means to be used for the common good of our society.  Shared knowledge and applications to make design process easier and more accurate is helping us engineers all to achieve more, to learn more and to do more for others. 

Seismic Design Maps Tool

USGS provides a platform to calculate seismic parameters online. This one is created by SEAOC & OSHPD.

Seismic Parameters

Seismic Design Documentation

National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program, NEHRP, which is a research and implementation partnership, publishes seismic design technical briefs here is the link.

NEHRP Technical Briefs