Many more people are coming to live in earthquake-prone areas, especially urban ones. Many such areas contain low-rise, low-cost housing, while little ...
The catastrophic earthquakes of the last decades (Mexico City, 1985; Loma Prieta, 1989; Northridge, 1994; Kobe, 1995) have seriously undermined there ...
This book examines and presents essential aspects of the behavior, analysis, design and detailing of reinforced concrete buildings subjected to strong ...
Geophysicists use seismic signals to image structures in the Earth's interior, to understand the mechanics of earthquake and volcanic sources, and to ...
In the past, facilities considered to be at the end of their useful life were demolished and replaced with new ones that better met the functional req ...
Seismic Design of Building Structures provides essential background instruction for the seismic problems on the civil PE exam. Using relevant codes, t ...
Tools to Safeguard New Buildings and Assess Existing Ones Nonlinear analysis methods such as static pushover are globally considered a reliable tool f ...
Irregular engineering structures are subjected to complicated additional loads which are often beyond conventional design models developed for traditi ...
Structural irregularities are one of the most frequent causes of severe damages in buildings, as evidenced by the numerous earthquakes in recent years ...
A wide-ranging survey of the subject that celebrates the variety and complexity of film comedy from the ‘silent’ days to the present, this authoritati ...
A wide-ranging survey of the subject that celebrates the variety and complexity of film comedy from the ‘silent’ days to the present, this authoritati ...
A Chinese Physician is the portrait of a 16th century medical writer and clinical practitioner. Drawing on socio-economic/biographic, textual, and gen ...
A tried-and-true method to raise funds while engaging the community, librarybook sales can be a win-win situation if done correctly. Book sale veteran ...
With today's busy schedules, it can be difficult for fathers to create meaningful memories with their girls. 88 Great Daddy-Daughter Dates provides da ...
Eine Entdeckungsreise in die subatomare Welt und ihre erstaunlichen Phänomene Die subatomare Welt ist ganz anders als die uns vertraute. In ihr schein ...
Dieses Buch nimmt sie mit auf eine spannende Entdeckungsreise durch die Welt der Physik, durch Mikro- und Makrokosmos: Lernen Sie die wichtigsten hist ...
Eine Entdeckungsreise durch unser Universum – vom Urknall bis zur AstrobiologiePlanetenDas heliozentrische WeltbildKeplers GesetzeNewtons Gravitations ...
In this, the second volume in an important new series presenting core concepts across a range of critical areas of human knowledge, author Joanne Bake ...
