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UNINA9910462110003321 |
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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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1 online resource (764 p.) |
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Earthquake engineering - History |
Engineering |
Electronic books. |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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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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UNINA9910778414503321 |
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Autore |
Colten Craig E |
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Perilous place, powerful storms : hurricane protection in coastal Louisiana / / Craig E. Colten |
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Jackson : , : University Press of Mississippi, , 2009 |
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©2009 |
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1-282-48566-0 |
9786612485664 |
1-60473-345-4 |
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1 online resource (x, 195 pages) |
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Hurricane protection - Louisiana - Evaluation |
Flood control - Louisiana - New Orleans - Evaluation |
Levees - Louisiana - New Orleans - History |
Levees - Mississippi River |
Hurricane Katrina, 2005 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-186) and index. |
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Introduction -- City at risk -- Season of the storms -- Lake Pontchartrain and vicinity hurricane protection, 1970-1990 -- Protecting the Delta, the West Bank, and the coast -- Developments to the eve of Katrina, 1990-2005 -- Conclusions. |
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The hurricane protection systems that failed New Orleans when Katrina roared on shore in 2005 were the product of four decades of engineering hubris, excruciating delays, and social conflict. In Perilous Place, Powerful Storms , Craig E. Colten traces the protracted process of erecting massive structures designed to fend off tropical storms and examines how human actions and inactions left the system incomplete on the eve of its greatest challenge. Hurricane Betsy in 1965 provided the impetus for Congress to approve unprecedented hurricane protection for the New Orleans area. Army Engineers sw |
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UNINA9910639984903321 |
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Autore |
Dierking Ingo |
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State-of-the-Art Liquid Crystals Research in UK |
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Basel, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2022 |
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1 electronic resource (224 p.) |
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Technology: general issues |
History of engineering & technology |
Materials science |
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The United Kingdom has a proud history of liquid crystal research. Its contributions span from the formulation of the theory of nematic elasticity as it is used today, uncovered via the Leslie–Erickson theory describing the viscosity of mesophases, to the discovery of the first room-temperature nematic and the related developments in the display industry, to name just several pioneering contributions. Today, liquid crystal science in the UK is more diverse and multidisciplinary than ever, ranging from the synthesis of increasingly complex mesogenic molecules, via the physical properties of self-organised systems and composites of both the thermotropic and the lyotropic type, to a wide variety of applications outside of the traditional display sector. The field covers aspects of chemistry, physics, material sciences, chemical engineering, mathematics, biology and device engineering in an overarching effort to advance the fundamental understanding of these soft-matter materials and to promote their technological exploitation in the UK and worldwide. To this end, a large group of individuals and research groups from universities and industry in the UK are working together on a Special Issue to advance the development of this field. The achievements of these scholars can be found in publications in top-class journals and presentations at all large international conferences, in the development of new products, and in events for |
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