Engineering Seismology, Geotechnical and Structural Earthquake Engineering
by Sebastiano D'Amico (ed.)
Publisher: InTech 2013
ISBN-13: 9789535110385
Number of pages: 300
Description:
The book deals with different topics aiming to mitigate geo-hazards such as: Seismic hazard analysis, Ground investigation for seismic design, Seismic design, assessment and remediation, Earthquake site response analysis and soil-structure interaction analysis.
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