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- Title
- Siting and Geotechnical Program Focus and Directions. Report upon the Deliberations of a Workshop Held at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois on August 4-5, 1986.
- File
- PB87206272.pdf
- Author(s)
- Saxena, S. K.
- Source
- National Science Foundation, Washington, DC. Directorate for Engineering., January 1986, 185 p.
- Abstract
- The report reviews the status of the Siting and Geotechnical Systems Area of the Earthquake Hazard Mitigation Program, and recommends future directions for research in the area. Participants at the workshop were divided into four working groups concentrating on the following topics: (1) soil and rock properties and constitutive laws; (2) ground motion predictions and the effects of soil conditions on near surface motions, and influence of soil properties on ground failure hazards; (3) ground motion measurements, arrays, and instrumention; and (4) soil-structure interaction and design aspects.
- Keywords
- Failure; Earth movements; Ground motion; Earthquake engineering; Buildings; Hazards; Meetings; Soil dynamics; Rock mechanics; Soil mechanics; Construction