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Acknowledgements
Numerous individuals and institutions deserve credit for the development of
the interim protocols provided in this document. The need for the protocols
was first recognized by the FEMA Performance-Based Seismic Design
Project (ATC-58) Nonstructural Performance Products Team, consisting of
Robert Bachman (Team Leader), David Bonowitz, Philip Caldwell, Andre
Filiatrault, Robert Kennedy, Gary McGavin, Eduardo Miranda, and Keith
Porter. The protocol development effort was carried out by three protocol
teams: (1) the Shaking Table Testing Protocol Team, consisting of Andre
Filiatrault (Team Leader), Philip Caldwell, Peter Dusicka, Tara Hutchinson,
Ahmad Itani, Eduardo Miranda, Gokhan Pekcan, Andrei Reinhorn, Jose
Restrepo, and James Wilcoski; (2) The Racking Testing Protocol Team,
consisting of Helmut Krawinkler (Team Leader), David Bonowitz, Barry
Goodno, Steven Kuan, Joseph Maffei, Ali Memari, Jose Restrepo, and Chia-
Ming Uang; and (3) the Component Cyclic Testing Protocol Team,
consisting of Manos Maragakis (Team Leader), George Antaki, Scott
Campbell, and Robert Kennedy.
Additional guidance and input was provided by participants in the
FEMA/ATC-58 Workshop on Interim Protocols for Seismic Performance
Assessment Testing of Nonstructural Component , held on November 4-5,
2004 in the San Francisco Bay area. Participants included the individuals
cited above as well as members of the Project Team, FEMA representatives,
and invited participants: Dennis Alvarez, John Caffrey, James Carlson, Mary
Comerio, Craig Comartin (Risk Management Products Team Leader),
William Gates, Jeff Gatscher, Nathan Gould, Ronald Hamburger (Project
Technical Director), Robert Hanson (FEMA Technical Monitor), Brian
Kehoe, Charles Kircher (Risk Management Products Team Member),
Richard Lloyd, Mike Mahoney (FEMA Project Officer), Sami Masri, Kelly
Merz, Christopher Rojahn (Project Executive Director), Anshel Schiff, John
Silva, Donald Smith, Greg Soules, William Staehlin, and Chris Tokas.
Project and Workshop coordination was provided by Bernadette Hadnagy,
and editorial and publication services were provided by Gerald Brady and
Peter Mork. The affiliations of these individuals and those cited above are
provided in the list of Project Participants and the list of Workshop
Participants at the end of this document.