Earthquakes and engineers [[electronic resource] ] : an international history / / Robert K. Reitherman

• Autore: Reitherman Robert <1950->
• Pubblicazione: Reston, Va., : American Society of Civil Engineers, c2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (764 p.)
• Disciplina: 624.1/762
• Soggetto topico: Earthquake engineering - History; Engineering
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""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""
• Titolo autorizzato: Earthquakes and engineers
• ISBN: 0-7844-7635-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910462110003321
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