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Grand Challenges in Earthquake Engineering Research

A Community Workshop Report

By: National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Earth Sciences and Resources,Committee on Seismology and Geodynamics,Committee for the Workshop on Grand Challenges in Earthquake Engineering Researchâ¬"A Vision for NEES Experimental Facilities and Cyberinfrastructure Tools

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Grand Challenges in Earthquake Engineering Research

A Community Workshop Report

As geological threats become more imminent, society must make a major commitment to increase the resilience of its communities, infrastructure, and citizens. Recent earthquakes in Japan, New Zealand, Haiti, and Chile provide stark reminders of the devastating impact major earthquakes have on the lives and economic stability of millions of people worldwide. The events in Haiti continue to show that poor planning and governance lead to long-term chaos, while nations like Chile demonstrate steady recovery due to modern earthquake planning and proper construction and mitigation activities. At the request of the National Science Foundation, the National Research Council hosted a two-day workshop to give members of the community an opportunity to identify "Grand Challenges" for earthquake engineering research that are needed to achieve an earthquake resilient society, as well as to describe networks of earthquake engineering experimental capabilities and cyberinfrastructure tools that could continue to address ongoing areas of concern. Grand Challenges in Earthquake Engineering Research: A Community Workshop Report explores the priorities and problems regions face in reducing consequent damage and spurring technological preparedness advances. Over the course of the Grand Challenges in Earthquake Engineering Research workshop, 13 grand challenge problems emerged and were summarized in terms of five overarching themes including: community resilience framework, decision making, simulation, mitigation, and design tools. Participants suggested 14 experimental facilities and cyberinfrastructure tools that would be needed to carry out testing, observations, and simulations, and to analyze the results. The report also reviews progressive steps that have been made in research and development, and considers what factors will accelerate transformative solutions.

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0309214521

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9780309214520

Preventing Earthquake Disasters: The Grand Challenge in Earthquake Engineering

A Research Agenda for the Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES)

By: National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment,Committee to Develop a Long-Term Research Agenda for the Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES)

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Preventing Earthquake Disasters: The Grand Challenge in Earthquake Engineering

A Research Agenda for the Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES)

The Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES), administered by the National Science Foundation (NSF), is scheduled to become operational in 2004. These network sites will perform a range of experiments to test and validate complex computer models being developed to simulate the behavior of structures subjected to earthquakes. To assist in this effort, the NSF requested the National Research Council(NRC) to frame the major questions to be addressed by and to develop a long-term research agenda for NEES. Preventing Earthquake Disasters presents an overview of the grand challenge including six critical research problems making up that challenge. The report also provides an assessment of earthquake engineering research issues and the role of information technology in that research effort, and a research plan for NEES.

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193

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National Academies Press

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0309090644

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9780309090643

Earthquake Engineering for Concrete Dams

Design, Performance, and Research Needs

By: National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems,Division of Natural Hazard Mitigation,Committee on Earthquake Engineering,Panel on Earthquake Engineering for Concrete Dams

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Earthquake Engineering for Concrete Dams

Design, Performance, and Research Needs

The hazard posed by large dams has long been known. Although no concrete dam has failed as a result of earthquake activity, there have been instances of significant damage. Concerns about the seismic safety of concrete dams have been growing recently because the population at risk in locations downstream of major dams continues to expand and because the seismic design concepts in use at the time most existing dams were built were inadequate. In this book, the committee evaluates current knowledge about the earthquake performance of concrete dams, including procedures for investigating the seismic safety of such structures. Earthquake Engineering for Concrete Dams specifically informs researchers about state-of-the-art earthquake analysis of concrete dams and identifies subject areas where additional knowledge is needed.

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National Academies Press

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0309043360

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9780309043366

National Earthquake Resilience

Research, Implementation, and Outreach

By: National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Earth Sciences and Resources,Committee on Seismology and Geodynamics,Committee on National Earthquake Resilienceâ¬"Research, Implementation, and Outreach

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National Earthquake Resilience

Research, Implementation, and Outreach

The United States will certainly be subject to damaging earthquakes in the future. Some of these earthquakes will occur in highly populated and vulnerable areas. Coping with moderate earthquakes is not a reliable indicator of preparedness for a major earthquake in a populated area. The recent, disastrous, magnitude-9 earthquake that struck northern Japan demonstrates the threat that earthquakes pose. Moreover, the cascading nature of impacts-the earthquake causing a tsunami, cutting electrical power supplies, and stopping the pumps needed to cool nuclear reactors-demonstrates the potential complexity of an earthquake disaster. Such compound disasters can strike any earthquake-prone populated area. National Earthquake Resilience presents a roadmap for increasing our national resilience to earthquakes. The National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP) is the multi-agency program mandated by Congress to undertake activities to reduce the effects of future earthquakes in the United States. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)-the lead NEHRP agency-commissioned the National Research Council (NRC) to develop a roadmap for earthquake hazard and risk reduction in the United States that would be based on the goals and objectives for achieving national earthquake resilience described in the 2008 NEHRP Strategic Plan. National Earthquake Resilience does this by assessing the activities and costs that would be required for the nation to achieve earthquake resilience in 20 years. National Earthquake Resilience interprets resilience broadly to incorporate engineering/science (physical), social/economic (behavioral), and institutional (governing) dimensions. Resilience encompasses both pre-disaster preparedness activities and post-disaster response. In combination, these will enhance the robustness of communities in all earthquake-vulnerable regions of our nation so that they can function adequately following damaging earthquakes. While National Earthquake Resilience is written primarily for the NEHRP, it also speaks to a broader audience of policy makers, earth scientists, and emergency managers.

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0309186773

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9780309186773

Earthquake, Blast and Impact

Measurement and effects of vibration

By: Seced - The Society For Earthquake & Civil Engineering Dynamics

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Earthquake, Blast and Impact

Measurement and effects of vibration

By: Seced - The Society For Earthquake & Civil Engineering Dynamics

This volume consists of papers presented at the International Conference on Earthquake, Blast and Impact held at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, UK, 18-20 September 1991, organised by the Society for Earthquake and Civil Engineering Dynamics (SECED) and supported by the Institution of Civil Engineers, the Instituti

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CRC Press

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1482286726

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The Economic Consequences of a Catastrophic Earthquake

Proceedings of a Forum

By: National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems,Committee on Earthquake Engineering

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The Economic Consequences of a Catastrophic Earthquake

Proceedings of a Forum

By: National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems,Committee on Earthquake Engineering

This book presents the proceedings of an August 1990 forum held at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C. Topics covered include the current and potential roles of the private sector and the various levels of government before, during, and after an earthquake occurs, and alternative strategies that could be implemented to reduce the economic impacts, with emphasis placed on the role of the insurance industry.

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0309046394

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Securing Society Against Catastrophic Earthquake Losses

A Research and Outreach Plan in Earthquake Engineering

By: Earthquake Engineering Research Institute,Mary Comerio

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Securing Society Against Catastrophic Earthquake Losses

A Research and Outreach Plan in Earthquake Engineering

By: Earthquake Engineering Research Institute,Mary Comerio

Life and career of esteemed architect Mary Comerio.

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0943198038

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Assessment of Earthquake Engineering Research and Testing Capabilities in the United States

A Summary Report

By: Earthquake Engineering Research Institute. Committee on Experimental Research

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Assessment of Earthquake Engineering Research and Testing Capabilities in the United States

A Summary Report

By: Earthquake Engineering Research Institute. Committee on Experimental Research

An executive summary of the assessment report on national research and test facilities for earthquake engineering research. The summary includes background, purpose, evaluation of existing capabilities, projections of future research capabilities and results, and concluding remarks. This summary is also included in the full text of the proceedings.

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0943198496

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Assessment of Earthquake Engineering Research and Testing Capabilities in the United States

A Summary Report

By: Earthquake Engineering Research Institute. Committee on Experimental Research

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A Summary Report

By: Earthquake Engineering Research Institute. Committee on Experimental Research

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Grand Challenges in Earthquake Engineering Research

Grand Challenges in Earthquake Engineering Research

Preventing Earthquake Disasters: The Grand Challenge in Earthquake Engineering

Preventing Earthquake Disasters: The Grand Challenge in Earthquake Engineering

Earthquake Engineering for Concrete Dams

Earthquake Engineering for Concrete Dams

National Earthquake Resilience

National Earthquake Resilience

Earthquake, Blast and Impact

Earthquake, Blast and Impact

The Economic Consequences of a Catastrophic Earthquake

The Economic Consequences of a Catastrophic Earthquake

Securing Society Against Catastrophic Earthquake Losses

Securing Society Against Catastrophic Earthquake Losses

Assessment of Earthquake Engineering Research and Testing Capabilities in the United States

Assessment of Earthquake Engineering Research and Testing Capabilities in the United States

Assessment of Earthquake Engineering Research and Testing Capabilities in the United States

Assessment of Earthquake Engineering Research and Testing Capabilities in the United States

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