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1 online resource (288 pages) |
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""PRACTICAL LESSONS FROM THE LOMA PRIETA EARTHQUAKE""; ""Copyright""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Overview: Lessons And Recommendations From The Committee For The Symposium On Practical Lessons From ... ""; ""GENERAL OBSERVATIONS""; ""EARTH SCIENCES""; ""GEOTECHNICAL AND STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING""; ""PLANNING AND EMERGENCY RESPONSE""; ""NOTE ON SUPPORTING SOURCES""; ""1 Legacy Of The Loma Prieta Earthquake: Challenges To Other Communities ""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""THE NEED TO REACH OUT""; ""THE NEED FOR SUSTAINED ADVOCACY""; ""IRREVERSIBLE CHANGE""; ""ROME WASN'T BUILT IN A DAY"" |
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""IF YOU CAN'T DO IT RIGHT, DON'T DO IT""""THE ABILITY TO PREDICT DAMAGE""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""2 The Geotechnical Aspects ""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""OVERVIEW""; ""LIQUEFACTION""; ""Occurrence And Recurrence""; ""Settlements""; ""Lateral Spreading""; ""Fill Densification As A Result Of Earthquake Shaking""; ""Improved Ground""; ""SITE AMPLIFICATION AND RESPONSE SPECTRA""; ""SLOPES, FILLS, AND EMBANKMENTS""; ""Natural Slopes""; ""Engineered Embankments And Dams""; ""Sanitary And Hazardous Waste Landfills""; ""WATERFRONT CONTAINMENT STRUCTURES, PIERS, AND LATERAL RETAINING STRUCTURES"" |
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""FOUNDATIONS""""TUNNELS AND UNDERGROUND STRUCTURES""; ""LESSONS LEARNED FROM THE GEOTECHNICAL ASPECTS OF THE LOMA PRIETA EARTHQUAKE""; ""Liquefaction""; ""Site Amplification""; ""Slopes, Fills, And Embankments""; ""Waterfront Containment Structures, Piers, And Retaining Structures""; ""Foundations""; ""Underground Structures""; ""Areas For Future Concern""; ""ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS""; ""REFERENCES""; ""DISCUSSANTS' COMMENTS: GEOTECHNICAL ISSUES""; ""William Cotton, William Cotton & Associates""; ""Maurice S. Power, Geomatrix Consultants""; ""Thomas Hanks, U.S. Geological Survey"" |
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""C. Thomas Statton, Woodward-Clyde Consultants""""3 Buildings ""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""Functionality""; ""Acceptable Risk""; ""Ground Motion""; ""Focus of Research""; ""METHODOLOGY""; ""THE ROLE OF RESEARCH IN THE PRACTICAL LESSONS PROCESS""; ""THE ROLE OF OBSERVATIONS IN THE PRACTICAL LESSONS PROCESS""; ""PRINCIPAL FINDINGS""; ""Seismic Risk""; ""Acceptable Risk Policy""; ""Owner Involvement""; ""Definition of Seismic Risk""; ""Building Departments""; ""Tools and Technology Transfer""; ""Building Damage Assessment""; ""The Initial Assessment""; ""A Question of Perspective"" |
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""Ordinances Needed""""Description Of Need""; ""Retrofit Standards""; ""Evaluation of Risk: A Challenge""; ""Plan Checking and Site Inspections By Building Officials""; ""Quality-Control Check Points""; ""Some Action Is Possible""; ""Strong Motion Instrumentation""; ""Purpose And Use of the Data""; ""Some Perspective""; ""Building Performance""; ""Owners And The Public Expectations""; ""Performance, Design And The Code""; ""Safety Versus Post-Earthquake Usage""; ""Focus of Research""; ""Residential Construction""; ""The Profile of The Damaged Building""; ""The Majority Of Structures"" |
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""Old Materials"" |
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Buildings -- Earthquake effects -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area -- Congresses
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Emergency management -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area -- Congresses
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Earthquakes -- California -- San Francisco -- Congresses
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Loma Prieta Earthquake, Calif., 1989 -- Congresses
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Buildings -- Earthquake effects
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Earthquakes
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Emergency management
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California
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California -- San Francisco
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California -- San Francisco Bay Area
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780309598477 |
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0309598478 |
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