Comprehensive Approach to Earthquake Disaster Mitigation
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Comprehensive Approach to Earthquake Disaster Mitigation: (4 Progress in Earthquake Research and Engineering)

Comprehensive Approach to Earthquake Disaster Mitigation: (4 Progress in Earthquake Research and Engineering)


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During the last decades, and specifically in the recent years, earthquake catastrophies have increased at an alarming rate. The reason is mainly an increasing vulnerability and risk due to an expanding population density and industrialization. Already today, earthquake catastrophies could be considerably reduced if available scientific knowledge and technological know-how could be effectively addressed to protective and preventive measures against destruction by future earthquakes. This volume contains contribution ranges for a comprehensive concept, which in a a multidisciplinary approach, from fundamental research to concrete measures of protection and disaster preparedness.

Table of Contents:
Earthquake Source Processes.- Kinematic Adjustment of Geodetic Deformation Networks with Piece-wise Linear Deformation History Model.- The Helendale Fault Zone.- Beyond Plate Tectonics — From a Phenomenological to a Causative View on Global Tectonics and Earthquake Activity.- Discontinuity of the Helendale Fault Zone: Geophysical Evidence.- Time and Space Distributions of the Intermediate Focal Depth Earthquakes in the South-West of Turkey.- Earthquake Hazard Assessment.- Some Aspects of Seismic Hazard Assessment in National and Local Levels in Albania.- Qualitative Study of Site Effects on Seismograms. A Case Study in the Area of Eastern-Central Greece.- Cross-hole Measurements for Microzoning Kalamata, Greece.- Determining the Properties of Soils with Different Types of Structural Bonds Affected by Earthquake Waves.- Risk Analysis and Evaluation.- Perspective on Earthquakes in Turkey.- Impulse Table Tests of Single Story Buildings.- An Engineering Field Reconnaissance Report on the Erzincan Earthquake of 13 March 1992.- Measures of Protection.- Land-use Planning as Instrument of Earthquake Hazard Mitigation.- Seismic Rehabilitation of a Capacitor Bank Structure through Base Isolation.- Safe Design of Bolted Connections in Structural Steelwork.- Comprehensive Disaster Planning and Management.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9783528065577
  • Publisher: Friedrich Vieweg & Sohn Verlagsgesellschaft mbH
  • Publisher Imprint: Friedrich Vieweg & Sohn Verlagsgesellschaft mbH
  • Height: 244 mm
  • No of Pages: 311
  • Returnable: N
  • Width: 170 mm
  • ISBN-10: 3528065575
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 1993
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: German
  • Returnable: N
  • Series Title: 4 Progress in Earthquake Research and Engineering


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