- Author
- Raufaste, N. J., Jr.
- Report
- NIST SP 820, September 1991,
- Distribution
- Available from Government Printing Office
- 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, 23rd. May 14-17, 1991, Tsukuba, Japan, Raufaste, N. J., Jr., Editors, 636 p., 1991
- Keywords
- accelerograph | bridges (structures) | buildings | concretes | design criteria | disasters | disaster reduction | earthquakes | geotechnical engineering | ground failures | lifelines | liquefaction | masonry | repair and retrofit | risk assessment | seismic | soils | standards | storm surge | structural engineering | tsunamis | wind loads
- Abstract
- This publication is the proceedings of the 23rd Joint Meeting of the U. S.-Japan Panel on Wind and Seismic Effects. The meeting was held at the Public Works Research Institute, Tsukuba, Japan, from May 14-17, 1991. The proceedings include the program, list of members, panel resolutions, task committee reports, and 42 technical papers. The papers were presented under seven themes: (I) Wind Engineering, (II) Earthquake Engineering, (III) Storm Surge and Tsunami, (IV) Joint Cooperative Research Program, (V) Performance of Nonstructural Systems, (VI) International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction, and (VII) Summaries of Task Committee Workshop Reports (oral presentations only).