Earthquake: Preparedness and Mitigation - Couverture souple

Chauhan, Rohit; Jamwal, Jayoti

 
9783659148064: Earthquake: Preparedness and Mitigation
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 3659148067 ISBN 13 : 9783659148064
Editeur : LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2012

Synopsis

The book is designed to aware community on preparedness and mitigation of earthquake. Generally earthquake caused two types of damages such as structural and non structural. Structural damage includes building collapse, regional subsidence, uplift of the land, landslide, fires and tsunamis. Whereas non structural includes the damage and casualties due to the movement of non-structural objects such as computer and television during the earthquake. To overcome the damages by structural and non structural, the text provide the guidelines and recommendations to create earthquake resistance buildings .The text is accompanied by diagrams, maps and charts to visually aid the reader’s understanding of the subject. Therefore, it’s an effort to aware society from different phases of earthquakes such as pre-disaster, during disaster and post disaster. The idea is to make the subject accessible to an intelligent reader who, however, has little prior grounding in the subject, even while serving as a reliable refresher for a reader having studied the subject.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The book is designed to aware community on preparedness and mitigation of earthquake. Generally earthquake caused two types of damages such as structural and non structural. Structural damage includes building collapse, regional subsidence, uplift of the land, landslide, fires and tsunamis. Whereas non structural includes the damage and casualties due to the movement of non-structural objects such as computer and television during the earthquake. To overcome the damages by structural and non structural, the text provide the guidelines and recommendations to create earthquake resistance buildings .The text is accompanied by diagrams, maps and charts to visually aid the reader’s understanding of the subject. Therefore, it’s an effort to aware society from different phases of earthquakes such as pre-disaster, during disaster and post disaster. The idea is to make the subject accessible to an intelligent reader who, however, has little prior grounding in the subject, even while serving as a reliable refresher for a reader having studied the subject.

Biographie de l'auteur

He is working as a Junior Research Fallow (JRF)at Govind Ballabh Pant Institute of Himalayan Environment and Development,H.P. Unit, Mohal-Kullu-175126, Himachal Pradesh, India

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Éditeur
LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3659148067
ISBN 13 
9783659148064
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
60
Coordonnées du fabricant
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