Earthquake Engineering Frontiers in the New Millennium

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Y.X. Hu, B.F. Spencer
CRC Press, Jan 1, 2001 - Technology & Engineering - 476 pages
This volume comprises papers presented at the China-US Millennium Symposium on Earthquake Engineering, held in Beijing, China, on November 8-11, 2000. This conference provides a forum for advancing the field of earthquake engineering through multi-lateral cooperation.
 

Contents

Twenty years of fieldwork on damfoundationreservoir interaction 37
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Perspectives on successful international collaborative research
36
An overview and preview of ChinaUS joint research on earthquake engineering
56
Current status and future challenge
76
Strengthen the link between engineering and seismology
102
Ground motion pulses and structural response
118
Catastrophe risk modeling and financial management
132
Development of new seismic design concepts considering moderate seismicity in Korea
148
Seismic response characteristics of multispan cablestayed bridges with stabilizing cables
227
Seismic reliability analysis of electric power network system
240
Seismic behavior of underground structures and site response
243
Theory and experiments
259
Magnetorheological fluids ready for realtime motion control
273
Introducing a benchmark control problem for a cablestayed bridge subjected to seismic excitation
287
Study on seismic response reduction for floor increased structural system with friction bedding
305
A vertical shock absorber
321

Outline and concept of new Japanese seismic code
162
A combine method to establish attenuation law of wide response spectrum
177
Advances and integration in loss estimation
195
Seismic reliability of lifeline systems
209
The development of super high strength bolts
339
Seismic assessment and retrofit of Beijing engineering in the capital area of Beijing
357
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