- 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).