Poulos, H. G. (1995). “Design of reinforcing piles to increase slope stability.” Canadian
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For convenience I have put all of these reports in one thread with direct links, member ir_71 has provided altermative links. If you think this is an unnecessary duplication please discard with no regrets.


The LESSLOSS Project has come to a successful conclusion. In order to meet the objectives of the project, a large variety of research activities have been carried out by all 46 partners during the three years of the project, including state-of-the-art methodology reviews, data collection, constitutive modelling, analytical modelling, manufacturing of prototypes, laboratory testing, experimental testing, structural monitoing, software development, methodology calibration, loss modelling, and much more. The Publishable Final Activity Report provides a summary of these activities, whilst the 169 deliverables produced during the project can be found here.

One of the main objectives of the project was to describe the current best practice or usual practice in each area investigated. To meet this objective, during the third and final year of the project, the LESSLOSS partners produced a series of 8 Technical Reports addressed to specific Users Communities and Stakeholders. These Technical Reports can be directly downloaded by clicking on the titles below:

2007/01 - Landslides: From Mapping to Loss and Risk Estimation (Editors: G.B. Crosta, P. Frattini)

Does anybody have this book, please upload. Thanks

Advanced Mechanics of Materials by Cook, R.D. and W.C. Young, 1985.

Macmillan Publishing Company

ISBN-10: 0023246200
ISBN-13: 978-0023246203

I will greatly appreciate if anyone has a pdf copy of:
Crowley, H., Pinho, R., Bommer, J.J. and Bird, J.F. “Development of a displacement-based earthquake loss assessment methodology,” ROSE Report 2006/01, IUSS Press, Pavia, Italy.

It is known that flexibility of foundation usually is accompanied with lengthening of the fundamental period of soil-structure system and an increase in the damping. Using typical code spectra, this may lead always to a reduction in the spectral acceleration and consequently, lower seismic demands for the superstructure. As recent findings have revealed, this may not be the case for some soil sites and under some specific earthquakes with particular properties (like particular frequency content).The objectives of this dissertation are to investigate the overall response of existing and retrofitted buildings modelled on flexible foundation, and hence to evaluate the soil structure interaction effects on the structural response albeit through the use of relatively simple soil models.

From this study, telecommunication systems are found to be very vulnerable to seismic-induced congestion. The electric power interdependencies amplify the degradation in telecommunication systems up to 50% in their vulnerability while electric power operations are heavily dependent upon telecommunication infrastructures and the fragility median of electric power system observability can decrease by 30%. The study also indicates up to 100% overestimation of the independent fragility analysis and the results reveal the relationship between system topology and the sensitivity of system performance to the intensity of interdependencies. The proposed methodology is expected to be a valuable tool for decision making in evaluating seismic mitigation strategies and also to provide the foundation for future studies on interdependent responses of other critical infrastructures.[/size]

Semi-rigid Connections Handbook

and Masato Komuro (Author), Wai-Fah Chen (Author, Editor), Norimitsu Kishi (Author, Editor), Masato Komuro (Editor)
Publication Date: January 18, 2011 | ISBN-10: 1932159991 | ISBN-13: 978-1932159998
Research on the topic of steel frames with semi-rigid connections has been conducted over the past 10 years. With the publication of the 2005 AISC specifications as well as Eurocode 3, practical implementation of the use of PR connections in structural systems is now a real possibility. The Semi-rigid Connections Handbook presents a simple and comprehensive introduction that will help design practitioners implement these new developments into engineering practice. Beginning with a discussion of the new specifications and classifications of these connections, the authors go on to show, on the basis of the collected connections database, practical mathematical models for computer implementation and provide case studies on these frames including composite construction. With the help of the user-friendly list of collected data in tabular form with illustrative figures, information on semi-rigid connections is now available in a single publication and may ultimately result in its wide-spread usage among practitioners.

Key Features:
--Introduces the 2005 AISC specifications and the new Eurocode 3 on semi-rigid construction
--Includes more than 900 pages of semi-rigid connection test data in tabular form with figures
--Provides connection models for analysis and design with case studies
--Includes the recent development of steel-concrete composite connections with case studies
--WAV offers updated connection data, the Steel Connection Data Bank (SCDB) program, references, and a link to the semi-rigid website at the Muroran Institute of Technology (MIT), Japan
About the Author
Dr. Wai-Fah Chen was Professor and Dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Hawaii from 1999 to 2006. The author or co-author of 20 books, his primary areas of research are constitutive modeling of engineering materials, soil and concrete plasticity, structural connections, and structural stability. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and an Honorary member of the American Society of Civil Engineers.

Dr. Norimitsu Kishi is Professor, Structural Engineering Chair, and Director of the Structural Mechanics Laboratory in the Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture at the Muroran Institute of Technology in Japan.

Dr. Masato Komuro is Assistant Professor at the Muroran Institute of Technology, Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture.

I need this paper.
"Dynamic Buckling Analysis on Fluid-Solid Coupling of Large Liquid Storage Tank"
Authors: Shi, Nietao; Ju, Jinsan; Xiaochuan, You; Huang, Ying