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Earthquake Experts
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Author : Patricia Almada
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
Release Date : 1997-03-01
Earthquake Experts written by Patricia Almada and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-03-01 with Earthquakes categories.
Earthquake Experts
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Author : Rigby Education
language : en
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Release Date : 1997-04-01
Earthquake Experts written by Rigby Education and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-04-01 with Education categories.
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Author : Patricia Almada
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
Release Date : 1997-03-01
Grt Earthquake Experts Is written by Patricia Almada and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-03-01 with Education categories.
The Atom And The Fault
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Author : Richard L. Meehan
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 1984
The Atom And The Fault written by Richard L. Meehan and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with History categories.
With wit and thoughtful compassion, Richard Meehan presents one of the most perplexing of contemporary moral predicaments, one that arises in every attempt to assess potentially hazardous technologies. He focuses on the longrunning controversy over suspected earthquake faults near the nation's first corporately owned nuclear test reactor at Vallecitos, California, and uses this account of "the politics of expertise" to probe the nature of scientific truth and its relationship to the determination of public safety. At Vallecitos, Meehan points out, the opinions of the "experts" were radically divided. Where one group saw clear and ominous evidence of an earthquake fault in trenches dug at this showpiece site, others saw only the mark of an ancient landslide. How did these experts arrive at their opinions? Were they simply representing corporate, as opposed to environmentalist, points of view? And how are the public regulatory agencies charged with deciding such issues supposed to balance these seemingly irreconcilable opinions? The Atom and the Faultexplores these crucial questions as the issue of the earthquake safety of nuclear power plants continues to grow into a struggle encompassing government regulatory bodies, public utilities, private industry, engineers, geologists, and citizen activists. It paints candid portraits of the principal expert players, clarifies the difficult and often delicate interplay of honesty and loyalties among them, and lucidly explains the technical issues and viewpoints involved. As a professional participant in several environmental controversies in which so-called scientific facts were represented by opposing points of view, Meehan is uniquely qualified to tell this tale. He is a consultant to industry, government agencies, and law firms specializing in forecasting and damage assessment related to earthquakes and land failures, and an adjunct professor in the Values, Technology, Science, and Society program at Stanford University. His first book, Getting Sued and Other Tales of the Engineering Life was published by The MIT Press in 1981.
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Author : Patricia Almada
language : en
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Release Date : 2001
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The Romania Earthquake Survey Group Of Experts And Specialists Dispatched By The Government Of Japan
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language : en
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Release Date : 1977
The Romania Earthquake Survey Group Of Experts And Specialists Dispatched By The Government Of Japan written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Buildings categories.
Horrible Geography Earth Shattering Earthquakes Reloaded
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Author : Anita Ganeri
language : en
Publisher: Scholastic UK
Release Date : 2019-08-01
Horrible Geography Earth Shattering Earthquakes Reloaded written by Anita Ganeri and has been published by Scholastic UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-01 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
CELEBRATING 20 YEARS OF HORRIBLE GEOGRAPHY! Discover what it takes to be an earthquake expert, learn how to survive when an earthquake hits, and discover how rats and snakes can predict tremors. Filled with hilarious illustrations by Mike Phillips, HORRIBLE GEOGRAPHY is the perfect escapism from miserable maps, rotten rock piles and dire diagrams. Hold tight!
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Author : Almada
language : en
Publisher: Rigby
Release Date : 1997-04-01
Grt Earthquake Experts Tape written by Almada and has been published by Rigby this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-04-01 with Education categories.
Role Of Seismic Testing Facilities In Performance Based Earthquake Engineering
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Author : Michael N. Fardis
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2011-10-07
Role Of Seismic Testing Facilities In Performance Based Earthquake Engineering written by Michael N. Fardis and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-07 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Nowadays research in earthquake engineering is mainly experimental and in large-scale; advanced computations are integrated with large-scale experiments, to complement them and extend their scope, even by coupling two different but simultaneous tests. Earthquake engineering cannot give answers by testing and qualifying few, small typical components or single large prototypes. Besides, the large diversity of Civil Engineering structures does not allow drawing conclusions from only a few tests; structures are large and their seismic response and performance cannot be meaningfully tested in an ordinary lab or in the field. So, seismic testing facilities should be much larger than in other scientific fields; their staff has to be resourceful, devising intelligent ways to carry out simultaneously different tests and advanced computations. To better serve such a mission European testing facilities and researchers in earthquake engineering have shared their resources and activities in the framework of the European project SERIES, combining their research and jointly developing advanced testing and instrumentation techniques that maximize testing capabilities and increase the value of the tests. This volume presents the first outcomes of the SERIES and its contribution towards Performance-based Earthquake Engineering, i.e., to the most important development in Earthquake Engineering of the past three decades. The concept and the methodologies for performance-based earthquake engineering have now matured. However, they are based mainly on analytical/numerical research; large-scale seismic testing has entered the stage recently. The SERIES Workshop in Ohrid (MK) in Sept. 2010 pooled together the largest European seismic testing facilities, Europe’s best experts in experimental earthquake engineering and select experts from the USA, to present recent research achievements and to address future developments. Audience: This volume will be of interest to researchers and advanced practitioners in structural earthquake engineering, geotechnical earthquake engineering, engineering seismology, and experimental dynamics, including seismic qualification.
California Earthquakes
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Author : Carl-Henry Geschwind
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2003-04-30
California Earthquakes written by Carl-Henry Geschwind and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-04-30 with Nature categories.
Winner of the Book Prize of the Forum for the History of Science in America from the History of Science Society In 1906, after an earthquake wiped out much of San Francisco, leading California officials and scientists described the disaster as a one-time occurrence and assured the public that it had nothing to worry about. California Earthquakes explains how, over time, this attitude changed, and Californians came to accept earthquakes as a significant threat, as well as to understand how science and technology could reduce this threat. Carl-Henry Geschwind tells the story of the small group of scientists and engineers who—in tension with real estate speculators and other pro-growth forces, private and public—developed the scientific and political infrastructure necessary to implement greater earthquake awareness. Through their political connections, these reformers succeeded in building a state apparatus in which regulators could work together with scientists and engineers to reduce earthquake hazards. Geschwind details the conflicts among scientists and engineers about how best to reduce these risks, and he outlines the dramatic twentieth-century advances in our understanding of earthquakes—their causes and how we can try to prepare for them. Tracing the history of seismology and the rise of the regulatory state and of environmental awareness, California Earthquakes tells how earthquake-hazard management came about, why some groups assisted and others fought it, and how scientists and engineers helped shape it.
