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- Title
- Earthquake Engineering and Hazards Reduction in China: A Trip Report of the American Earthquake Engineering and Hazards Reduction Delegation.
- File
- PB80150865.pdf
- Author(s)
- Jennings, P. C.
- Source
- National Science Foundation, Washington, DC. Engineering and Applied Science., January 1980, 195 p.
- Identifying Number(s)
- ['CSCPRC-8', 'ISBN-0-309-02937-6']
- Abstract
- The U.S. Earthquake and Hazards Reduction Delegation reports its 1978 visit to learn about earthquake engineering, prediction, mitigation and research in China. The delegation comprised mostly earthquake engineers plus two geoscientists and a China scholar. The itinerary covered visits to six major cities beginning with the State Seismological Bureau, Tsinghua University and three construction sites at Peking. At Harbin the team visited the Institute of Engineering Mechanics which has principal responsibility for earthquake engineering research in China. At Canton, Chinese engineers presented earthquake studies on the analysis of tall buildings. In turn, delegation members presented 24 technical lectures during the tour. Various features of earthquake engineering and practice in China and information learned about specific earthquakes; i.e., the disastrous earthquake at Tangshan and the 1976 Sungpan-Pingwu earthquakes, are reported. Photographs of earthquake resistant structures and scenes of earthquake damage in China are included.
- Keywords
- Earthquake resistant structures; Predictions; China; Seismic risk; Foreign technology; Dynamic structural analysis; Earthquake engineering; Buildings; Dynamic response; Hazards; Anomalies; Soil mechanics; Earthquakes; Precursors