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For buildings and factories located near railway or subway lines, the vibrations caused by the moving trains, especially at high speeds, may be annoying to the residents or detrimental to the high-precision production lines. However, there is a lack of simple and efficient tools for dealing with the kind of environmental vibrations, concerning simulation of the radiation of infinite boundaries; irregularities in soils, buildings and wave barriers; and dynamic properties of the moving vehicles. This book is intended to fill such a gap.
Railroad tracks --- Vibration --- Vibration research --- Railroads --- Tracks, Railroad --- Mathematical models. --- Research. --- Track --- Buildings and structures --- 519.87 --- 624.042.3 --- 625.1 --- 699.84 --- 519.87 Mathematical models for operational research --- Mathematical models for operational research --- 699.84 Protection against vibration and noise --- Protection against vibration and noise --- 625.1 Railways in general. Permanent way. Track construction --- Railways in general. Permanent way. Track construction --- 624.042.3 Incidental loads. Live, superimposed or moving loads (e.g. from vibrations, impact, traffic) --- Incidental loads. Live, superimposed or moving loads (e.g. from vibrations, impact, traffic) --- Vibration&delete& --- Mathematical models
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Accelerating seismic activity in late Meiji Japan climaxed in the legendary Great Nobi Earthquake of 1891, which rocked the main island from Tokyo to Osaka, killing thousands. Ironically, the earthquake brought down many "modern" structures built on the advice of foreign architects and engineers, while leaving certain traditional, wooden ones standing. This book, the first English-language history of modern Japanese earthquakes and earthquake science, considers the cultural and political ramifications of this and other catastrophic events on Japan's relationship with the West, with modern science, and with itself. Gregory Clancey argues that seismicity was both the Achilles' heel of Japan's nation-building project-revealing the state's western-style infrastructure to be surprisingly fragile-and a new focus for nativizing discourses which credited traditional Japanese architecture with unique abilities to ride out seismic waves. Tracing his subject from the Meiji Restoration to the Great Kant Earthquake of 1923 (which destroyed Tokyo), Clancey shows earthquakes to have been a continual though mercurial agent in Japan's self-fashioning; a catastrophic undercurrent to Japanese modernity. This innovative and absorbing study not only moves earthquakes nearer the center of modern Japan change-both materially and symbolically-but shows how fundamentally Japan shaped the global art, science, and culture of natural disaster.
Earthquakes --- Quakes (Earthquakes) --- Earth movements --- Natural disasters --- Seismology --- Social aspects --- Psychological aspects. --- Japan --- Civilization --- 699.84 --- 699.84 Protection against vibration and noise --- Protection against vibration and noise --- Psychological aspects --- J7400 --- J4219 --- J4000.70 --- Japan: Science and technology -- geology --- Japan: Sociology and anthropology -- social policy and pathology -- emergency services (fire department, ambulance services, disaster relief) --- Japan: Social history, history of civilization -- Kindai (1850s- ), bakumatsu, Meiji, Taishō --- architecture. --- building codes. --- building materials. --- building project. --- earthquake safety. --- earthquake science. --- earthquakes. --- ecology. --- environment. --- environmental history. --- great kant earthquake. --- great nobi earthquake. --- infrastructure. --- japan. --- meiji restoration. --- meiji. --- modern japan. --- modernity. --- nation. --- natural disasters. --- nonfiction. --- osaka. --- science. --- seismic activity. --- seismic waves. --- self fashioning. --- structural integrity. --- tokyo. --- traditional architecture. --- western architecture. --- wooden building. --- wooden structures.
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