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Title

Preventing earthquake disasters : the grand challenge in earthquake engineering : a research agenda for the Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) / Committee to Develop a Long-Term Research Agenda for the Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES), Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, National Research Council of the National Academies.

Author

National Research Council (U.S.). Committee to Develop a Long-Term Research Agenda for the Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES)

Publication

Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, ©2003.

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Details

Additional Authors

National Research Council (U.S.). Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment.

Description

xx, 172 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Alternative Title

• Grand challenge in earthquake engineering : a research agenda for the Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES)
• Research agenda for the Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES)

Subject

• Earthquake resistant design
• Earthquake engineering
• Emergency management
• Disaster Planning
• seismic design
• disaster planning
• Earthquake engineering
• Earthquake resistant design
• Emergency management

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

1. Preventing disasters: the grand challenge for earthquake engineering research -- 2. Issues in earthquake engineering research -- 3. NEES and grand challenge research -- 4. Revolutionizing earthquake engineering research through information technology -- 5. Achieving the grand challenge: a research plan for NEES -- 6. Recommendations for meeting the grand challenge -- Appendices A-E.

ISBN

• 0309090644
• 9780309090643
• 0309527236
• 9780309527231

LCCN

2004296742

OCLC

• ocm53440278
• 53440278
• SCSB-9190213

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library