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Veterans' hospitals --- Health facilities --- Earthquake resistant design --- Design and construction --- Finance. --- Earthquake effects --- United States. --- Appropriations and expenditures.

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Nuclear power plants --- Nuclear power plants --- Earthquake resistant design --- Nuclear power plants --- Design and construction --- Standards --- Earthquake effects --- Safety measures. --- Standards --- Risk assessment

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This book aims to serve as an essential reference to facilitate civil engineers involved in the design of new conventional (ordinary) reinforced concrete (R/C) buildings regulated by the current European EC8 (EN 1998-1:2004) and EC2 (EN 1992-1-1:2004) codes of practice. The book provides unique step-by-step flowcharts which take the reader through all the required operations, calculations, and verification checks prescribed by the EC8 provisions. These flowcharts are complemented by comprehensive discussions and practical explanatory comments on critical aspects of the EC8 code-regulated procedure for the earthquake resistant design of R/C buildings. Further, detailed analysis and design examples of typical multi-storey three-dimensional R/C buildings are included to illustrate the required steps for achieving designs of real-life structures which comply with the current EC8 provisions. These examples can be readily used as verification tutorials to check the reliability of custom-made computer programs and of commercial Finite Element software developed/used for the design of earthquake resistant R/C buildings complying with the EC8 (EN 1998-1:2004) code. Th is book will be of interest to practitioners working in consulting and designing engineering companies and to advanced undergraduate and postgraduate level civil engineering students attending cours es and curricula in the earthquake resistant design of structures and/or undertaking pertinent design projects.

Civil Engineering --- Civil & Environmental Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Earthquake resistant design --- Reinforced concrete construction --- Buildings, Reinforced concrete --- Standards --- Specifications --- Reinforced concrete buildings --- Aseismic design --- Seismic design --- Concrete construction --- Earthquake engineering --- Structural design --- Vertical evacuation structures --- Civil engineering. --- Geology. --- Vibration. --- Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences. --- Civil Engineering. --- Natural Hazards. --- Vibration, Dynamical Systems, Control. --- Cycles --- Mechanics --- Sound --- Geognosy --- Geoscience --- Earth sciences --- Natural history --- Engineering --- Public works --- Geotechnical engineering. --- Natural disasters. --- Dynamical systems. --- Dynamics. --- Dynamical systems --- Kinetics --- Mathematics --- Mechanics, Analytic --- Force and energy --- Physics --- Statics --- Natural calamities --- Disasters --- Engineering, Geotechnical --- Geotechnics --- Geotechnology --- Engineering geology

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Perçues comme un moment exceptionnel et tragique de l’histoire des communautés anciennes, les catastrophes naturelles ne cessèrent, tout au long de l’Antiquité, de susciter l’étonnement, l’irraison et la peur. Elles furent l’objet de débats entre les défenseurs d’une opinion rationnelle, fondée sur la compréhension de l’harmonie et de la démesure du monde, et ceux qui, intrigués par la violence de tels phénomènes, en tenaient pour responsables les divinités. Il est néanmoins frappant de constater que les Grecs ne disposaient pas de mot pour désigner une catastrophe naturelle. L’enquête proposée ici repose donc sur une définition et un paradigme contemporains, l’étude des implications sociales qu’un aléa naturel impose aux sociétés. Loin de céder au fatalisme, les communautés surent s’adapter progressivement aux contraintes de leur environnement, tirèrent de ces expériences des enseignements au sujet des comportements à adopter et prirent des mesures efficaces afin de surmonter l’événement dévastateur. Les réactions populaires soulignent aussi la variété des attitudes face aux catastrophes : actes de bravoure ou de piété religieuse, évacuation des zones sinistrées, sollicitation des réseaux de voisinage, reconstruction des édifices ruinés. Ces réponses apportées au désastre révèlent les réalités quotidiennes dans les cités grecques. La catastrophe ne rompt ainsi pas le temps vécu, mais s’inscrit, au contraire, dans un processus historique de longue durée. Throughout Antiquity, natural disasters, seen as exceptional and tragic moments in the history of ancient communities, never ceased to evoke astonishment, irrationality and fear. They were the subject of debates between the defenders of rational opinions founded on an understanding of the world’s harmony and excess, and those who were puzzled by the violence of such phenomenas and held the gods responsible for them. Nevertheless, it is a surprise to discover that the Greeks did not have a word for ‘natural…

Natural disasters --- Catastrophes naturelles --- History --- Risk assessment --- Social aspects --- Religious aspects. --- Histoire --- Evaluation du risque --- Aspect social --- Aspect religieux --- Greece --- Grèce --- Social life and customs --- History. --- Themes, motives --- Archéologie et catastrophes naturelles --- Hazardous geographic environments --- Disaster relief --- Earthquake resistant design --- Flood damage prevention --- City planning --- Forced migration --- Forecasting. --- Government policy --- Safety measures --- Environmental aspects --- Religious life and customs. --- Grèce --- Cleansing, Ethnic --- Compulsory resettlement --- Ethnic cleansing --- Ethnic purification --- Involuntary resettlement --- Migration, Forced --- Purification, Ethnic --- Relocation, Forced --- Resettlement, Involuntary --- Migration, Internal --- Cities and towns --- Civic planning --- Land use, Urban --- Model cities --- Redevelopment, Urban --- Slum clearance --- Town planning --- Urban design --- Urban development --- Urban planning --- Land use --- Planning --- Art, Municipal --- Civic improvement --- Regional planning --- Urban policy --- Urban renewal --- Flood hazard mitigation --- Flood proofing --- Flood protection --- Floodproofing --- Flood control --- Floods --- Hazard mitigation --- Aseismic design --- Seismic design --- Earthquake engineering --- Structural design --- Vertical evacuation structures --- Disaster assistance --- Emergency assistance in disasters --- Emergency relief --- Emergency management --- Human services --- Natural calamities --- Disasters --- Environments, Hazardous geographic --- Human ecology --- Management --- Griechische Welt --- Griechenland --- antike geschichtsschreibung --- Altes Griechenland --- naturkatastrophe

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This book presents a selection of the best papers from the HEaRT 2015 conference, held in Lisbon, Portugal, which provided a valuable forum for engineers and architects, researchers and educators to exchange views and findings concerning the technological history, construction features and seismic behavior of historical timber-framed walls in the Mediterranean countries. The topics covered are wide ranging and include historical aspects and examples of the use of timber-framed construction systems in response to earthquakes, such as the gaiola system in Portugal and the Bourbon system in southern Italy; interpretation of the response of timber-framed walls to seismic actions based on calculations and experimental tests; assessment of the effectiveness of repair and strengthening techniques, e.g., using aramid fiber wires or sheets; and modelling analyses. In addition, on the basis of case studies, a methodology is presented that is applicable to diagnosis, strengthening and improvement of seismic performance and is compatible with modern theoretical principles and conservation criteria. It is hoped that, by contributing to the knowledge of this construction technique, the book will help to promote conservation of this important component of Europe’s architectural heritage.

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