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Author
Raufaste, N. J., Jr.
Coporate
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
Report
NIST SP 904, August 1996,
Distribution
Available from Government Printing Office Available from National Technical Information Service
Book or Conf
U.S./Japan Natural Resources Development Program (UJNR). Wind and Seismic Effects. Joint Meeting of the U.S./Japan Cooperative Program in Natural Resources Panel on Wind and Seismic Effects, 28th. May 14-17, 1996, Gaithersburg, MD, Raufaste, N. J., Jr., Editors, 638 p., 1996
Keywords
bridges (structures) | building technology | concretes | design criteria | disaster reduction | earthquakes | geotechnical engineering | ground failures | lifelines | liquefaction | masonry | repair and retrofit | risk assessment | seismic | standards | storm surge | structural engineering | tsunamis
Abstract
This publication is the proceedings of the 28th Joint Meeting of the U.S.-Japan Panel on Wind and Seismic Effects. The meeting was held at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland during May 14-17, 1996. The proceedings include the program, list of members, panel resolutions, task committee reports, and 46 technical papers written for this joint meeting. The papers were presented under five themes: (1) Storm Surge and Tsunamis (2) Earthquake Engineering, (3) Joint Cooperative Research Program, (4) Wind Engineering, and (5) Summaries of Task Committee Workshop Reports (oral presentations only).