04642nam 2200589Ia 450 991046211000332120200520144314.00-7844-7635-7(CKB)2670000000241243(EBL)3115586(SSID)ssj0000720462(PQKBManifestationID)12366924(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000720462(PQKBWorkID)10668609(PQKB)10537941(MiAaPQ)EBC3115586(Au-PeEL)EBL3115586(CaPaEBR)ebr10594242(OCoLC)811408143(EXLCZ)99267000000024124320110923d2011 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrEarthquakes and engineers[electronic resource] an international history /Robert K. Reitherman,Reston, Va. American Society of Civil Engineersc20111 online resource (764 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-7844-1071-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.""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 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""Earthquake engineeringHistoryEngineeringElectronic books.Earthquake engineeringHistory.Engineering.624.1/762Reitherman Robert1950-42923MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910462110003321Earthquakes and engineers1959783UNINA