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- Title
- On Hazards of the High-Rise.
- File
- PB80178874.pdf
- Author(s)
- Beedle, L. S.
- Source
- National Science Foundation, Washington, DC., February 1979, 54 p.
- Identifying Number(s)
- LEHIGH/FL/369-251
- Abstract
- The potential for hazards in tall buildings is presented from the standpoint of hazards due to loading, and in construction as well as those associated with potential failures in design, planning, decision-making, and concept. Sample topics of needed research, gleaned from the Monograph on Tall Buildings, are presented. Utilization of currently available information is of highest priority. Consideration of the total urban system is essential in high-rise projects of major magnitude.
- Keywords
- Environmental engineering; Seismic design; Tall buildings; Failure; Wind pressure; Specifications; Seismic risk; Structural design; Buildings; Earthquake engineering; Hazards; Building codes; Earthquakes