Earthquake Resistant Design and Risk Reduction - by DJ Dowrick.pdf
Author: DJ Dowrick | Size: 6.887 MB | Format: PDF | Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. | Year: 2009 | pages: 549 | ISBN: ISBN: 978-0-470-77815-9
This book is intended to help professionals of a wide range of disciplines in their attempts to reduce the social and economic risks of earthquakes. Earthquake risk reduction involves so many issues in planning, design, regulation, quality control and risk assessment, that it is difficult for any individual to gain a full perspective on the issue, or for any society to move forward in the quest at the desired speed.
The principal objectives are to:
• discuss the chief aspects of earthquake risk and their evaluation;
• present methods of reducing or managing a range of earthquake risks;
• give guidance on topics where no generally accepted method is currently available;
• suggest procedures to be adopted in earthquake regions having no official zoning or lateral force regulations; and
• indicate some of the more important specialist literature.
The general principles of this book apply to the whole built environment, while the more detailed sections relate to selected aspects of it. Whereas an attempt has been made to provide guidance on most of the more important issues, the coverage cannot be exhaustive in a single book.
The principal objectives are to:
• discuss the chief aspects of earthquake risk and their evaluation;
• present methods of reducing or managing a range of earthquake risks;
• give guidance on topics where no generally accepted method is currently available;
• suggest procedures to be adopted in earthquake regions having no official zoning or lateral force regulations; and
• indicate some of the more important specialist literature.
The general principles of this book apply to the whole built environment, while the more detailed sections relate to selected aspects of it. Whereas an attempt has been made to provide guidance on most of the more important issues, the coverage cannot be exhaustive in a single book.
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