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- Title
- Proceedings of the U.S.-Southeast Asia Symposium on Engineering for Natural Hazards Protection Held at Manila, Philippines on September 26-30, 1977.
- File
- PB292813.pdf
- Source
- National Science Foundation, Washington, DC. Applied Science and Research Applications., January 1978, 438 p.
- Abstract
- This volume contains a collection of thirty papers presented at the U.S.-Southeast Asia Symposium on Engineering for Natural Hazards Protection held in Manila, Philippines. The papers focus on research in risk and safety analysis and the design of structures regarding earthquakes, wind forces, landslides, storms, floods, hurricanes, and extreme events in general. Included in each of the papers is a synopsis, introduction, description of research, mathematical analyses, conclusions, references, and figures. The research represents work performed in the continental United States, Hawaii, the Philippines, Japan, Thailand, Singapore, New Zealand, and Australia. A concluding paper on the damages resulting from the Mindanao Earthquake of August 17, 1976 represents some engineering lessons learned from the damages and makes some recommendations for seismic code revisions under Philippine conditions.
- Keywords
- Structures; Hurricanes; Wind loads; Safety engineering; Philippines; Buildings; Earthquake engineering; Floods; Hazards; Meetings; Storms; Natural hazards; Earthquakes