Earthquake Hazards and Mitigation

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R. Ayothiraman, Hemanta Hazarika
I.K. International Publishing House, Jul 23, 2010 - Juvenile Nonfiction - 576 pages

The international workshop on “Earthquake Hazards and Mitigation” was held in Guwahati, India during 7-8 December 2007. This proceedings contains 5 keynote lectures, 11 invited lectures and 44 contributed papers presented in the workshop under the following broad themes:

1. Engineering Seismology and Seismic Hazard

2. Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering

3. Structural Earthquake Engineering

4. other related issues

This book reflects the present state-of-the-art of estimation of various earthquake hazards and their mitigation. It will be of extreme interest to engineers, researchers, scientists, faculty members and students working in these areas.

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About the author (2010)

R. Ayothiraman, IIT Guwahati, India.

Hemanta Hazarika, Akita Prefectural University, Japan.

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