Earthquake Engineering for Structural Design.0849372348Earthquake engineering earthquake engineer n. A civil engineer specializing in earthquake-resistant design and construction and in the study of the effects of seismic activity on fabricated structures. for structural design. Ed. by W.F. Chen and E.M. Lui LUI Local User Interface LUI Language User Interface (speech recognition technology) LUI Learning Unique Identifier (Australian education) LUi Level-Up! Inc. . CRC (Cyclical Redundancy Checking) An error checking technique used to ensure the accuracy of transmitting digital data. The transmitted messages are divided into predetermined lengths which, used as dividends, are divided by a fixed divisor. / Taylor Taylor, city (1990 pop. 70,811), Wayne co., SE Mich., a suburb of Detroit adjacent to Dearborn; founded 1847 as a township, inc. as a city 1968. A small rural village until World War II, it developed significantly in the second half of the 20th cent. & Francis 2006 $89.95 Hardcover TA654 Chen (dean of the College of Engineering, U. of Hawaii at Manoa) and Lui (chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Syracuse U.) present five papers that together describe the basics of earthquake engineering design. The papers review the characteristics of earthquake damage to structures, explain the principles and practices of seismic design of building and bridges, and introduce performance-based seismic design and evaluation of building structures. ([c]20062005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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