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Reitherman Robert <1950-> |
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Earthquakes and engineers [[electronic resource] ] : an international history / / Robert K. Reitherman |
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Reston, Va., : American Society of Civil Engineers, c2011 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (764 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Earthquake engineering - History |
Engineering |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""The Definition of Earthquake Engineering""; ""Engineers and Scientists""; ""Earthquake Engineering and Earthquake-Resistant Construction""; ""Scope""; ""Why This Book?""; ""1 Approaches to Earthquake Engineering History""; ""Earthquake Engineering Lore Can Be Fascinating, yet Factual""; ""The Value of Thinking""; ""Adding Breadth to Engineering""; ""Credit Where Credit Is Due""; ""History as a Way of Thinking about the Future""; ""Past Ideas and Developments May Still Be Useful Today""; ""Chronology Vis-a-Vis History"" |
""History as a Sieve""""Potential Sources of Bias""; ""Why the Emphasis on the Early Years?""; ""The End of Earthquake Engineering History?""; ""2 The Complexities of Earthquake Engineering""; ""Similarities and Differences with Other Engineering Disciplines""; ""Risk""; ""Inelasticity and Nonlinear Behavior""; ""Dynamics""; ""3 Ancient Understanding and Misunderstanding""; ""Mythological Beliefs: Supernatural Explanations for a Natural Phenomenon""; ""China""; ""India""; ""Japan""; ""Africa""; ""New Zealand""; ""Greece""; ""Middle East""; ""Fiji""; ""Mexico""; ""North American Indians"" |
""Limited Accomplishments from Ancient Times""""4 Beginnings of the Modern Scientific Approach: Renaissance to 1850""; ""The Development of Geology as a Science""; ""Galileo, Newton, Hooke: The Beginnings of Physics and Engineering""; ""Earthquake-Resistant Construction |
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Traditions in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries""; ""Civil Engineering Development as a Prerequisite to Earthquake Engineering""; ""5 The First Seismologists and Earthquake Engineers: The Nineteenth Century""; ""Robert Mallet, the First Earthquake Engineer""; ""Japan in the Meiji Period""; ""The University of Tokyo"" |
""John Milne: The Foremost Early Seismologist""""Ayrton, Perry, Ewing, Knott, Gray, and Mendenhall""; ""Development of Seismology Outside of Japan""; ""Intensity, an Early Tool of Seismologists and Engineers""; ""Understanding Faults and the Generation of Earthquakes""; ""Steel and Reinforced Concrete Join the Traditional Construction Materials""; ""Moment-Resisting Frames, Braced Frames, Walls, and Diaphragms""; ""Construction Vocabulary in Place, but Lacking Syntax""; ""The Lack of Quantitative Measures of Seismic Loads""; ""Static Analysis of a Dynamic Phenomenon"" |
""The Many Unsolved Problems""""6 1900-1940: Poised for Further Development but Lacking Essential Analytical Tools""; ""Earthquake Engineering in Japan""; ""Developing Surficial Seismology""; ""Research and Practice Initiatives after the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake""; ""The 1908 Messina Reggio Earthquake""; ""1910 Cartago, Costa Rica, Earthquake: An Early Recognition of the Vulnerability of Unreinforced Masonry""; ""The 1923 Kanto, Japan, Earthquake: The First Test of Seismically Analyzed and Designed Buildings"" |
""Seismologists Develop the First Estimates of Future Earthquakes: Where, How Big, and How Often"" |
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