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- Title
- Designing for Earthquakes, Proceedings from the 1978 Summer Seismic Institutes for Architectural Faculty Held at Illinois Univ., Urbana-Champaign on June 12-23, 1978 and at Stanford Univ., CA., on August 20-25, 1978.
- File
- PB81178121.pdf
- Author(s)
- Kennett, E. W.
- Source
- National Science Foundation, Washington, DC. Office of Planning and Resources Management., September 1979, 309 p.
- Abstract
- These proceedings consist of papers drawn from lectures at the 1978 Summer Seismic Institutes to bring concerns for earthquake safety more broadly into the architectural community. The papers cover a road range of topics in seismic design and focus on complex issues which affect the architectural response to earthquake risk. Background is provided on the nature of earthquakes and geologic hazards. Public policy issues which affect planning and land use in seismic risk areas are identified. Non-structural systems and components concerning design concepts are discussed. The Institutes serve as a vehicle for the interaction of faculty members from a diverse range of architectural schools with various curriculum strategies. Participants included faculty members from schools of architecture throughout the United States and Puerto Rico.
- Keywords
- Seismic design; Earthquake resistant structures; Urban planning; Risk analysis; Land use; Seismic risk; Structural design; Dynamic response; Renovating; Earthquake engineering; Meetings; Tsunamis; Design criteria; Dynamic structural analysis