Seismic Assessment and Rehabilitation of Existing Buildings: Proceedings of the NATO Science for Peace Workshop, Izmir, Turkey, from 13 to 14 May 2003 (Nato Science Series: IV: (closed)) - Hardcover

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This book will appeal to specialist engineers with enquiring minds and, in a broader sense, to all who live in buildings, especially those in a seismically active region. While the continual development of building codes permits the design of new construction to resist earthquake loads more effectively, a major problem is that buildings which may once have conformed to past seismic codes become structurally unacceptable according to today's codes and need upgrading or `retrofitting'. Poor construction methods also result in buildings that do not conform to any codes. Existing `vulnerable' buildings that require strengthening in earthquake-prone countries immensely outnumber all recent construction.

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