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Roger CareyThose civil engineering structures that support important safety equipment and piping systems and those that assist in cooling water delivery to the reactor and spent fuel cooling facilities in an emergency are referred to as “important civil engineering structures.” This chapter describes the earth

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Roger Careyon-invasive techniques, based principally on surface wave interpretations of ambient noise measurements. The present paper focuses on their key outcomes regarding three main topics. First, methodological, hardware and software developments focusing on the acquisition and the processing of both singl

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Tony Masonp based on a regional seismic hazard study compatible with the scale of the microzonation. A grid system is implemented dividing the investigation area into cells according to the availability of geological, geophysical and geotechnical data. Site characterizations are performed based on available b

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Martin Edmondsn may have bias for a different region. A closely related problem is the applicability of multi-regional GMPEs to a particular region, even if that region contributed some fraction of the database. It is well known that ground motions show distinct characteristics for stable continental regions, sub

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Eric Groveat are part of old urban agglomerations, focusing attention on the existing “pombaline” buildings in the heart of Lisbon and on the traditional masonry construction inserted in urban areas of the Azores Islands. This paper further details a previous review by Oliveira (2003a, Bull Earthquake Eng 1(1

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f thousands in highly populated areas. Increasing population growth in high seismicity areas may transform a less significant earthquake into a major disaster. Thus, how to mitigate seismic impact is an important area of research around the world. Obviously, the seismic impact would be dramatically

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Seismic codes were implemented in 1976 and have gradually improved the seismic capacity of present building stock. In this book chapter, an overview of the seismic performance of old and new Icelandic buildings is given. Observed and reported damage caused by three earthquake sequences and a single