Earthquake Engineering
Subtitle: From Engineering Seismology to Performance-Based Engineering
Contributors: Yousef Bozorgnia (Editor); Vitelmo V. Bertero (Editor)
Publisher: CRC
Published: March 26, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 976
ISBN-13: 9780849314391
Subjects: Structural engineering; Technology & Industrial Arts; Engineering - Civil; Science; Science/Mathematics; Technology / Engineering / Civil; Earthquake engineering; Earth Sciences - Seismology & Volcanism
First sentence: This chapter presents an overview of the early years of what presently is called earthquake engineering (EE), especially in the United States.