Proceedings of the US-Asia Conference on engineering for mitigating natural hazards damage / edited by Pisidhi Karasudhi, Prinya Nutayala and Arthur N.L. Chiu
- Bangkok: EMNHD, 1987
- Various paging; illust. 30cm
1 Extreme wind hazards in Asia / B. Venkateswarlu 2 Mitigation of wind related damages due to severe wind storms and hurricanes / R.N. Meroney 3 Strong wind in Northern China: general description, hazard and mitigation / J. Xuan, Z.F. Gu, K. Q. Liu and T. F. Sun 4 An outline of study on wind hazard prevention of structures in china / H.F. Xiang and H.L. Xue 5 Some aspects of community preparedness plan against cyclone / D.K. Rakshit 6 A survey of meteorological disasters over Taiwan area / S.L. Shieh and C.K. Chen 7 Recent activities of design considerations for wind effects on long-span bridges / T. Miyata and H. Yamada 8 Engineering design for extreme wind occurrence in Hong Kong / B.E. Lee 9 Typhoon risks and typhoon-resistant design of nuclear power plants in Korea / H.N. Cho 10 Stochastic simulation of extreme winds in a tropical cyclone-prone region / E. D. H. Cheng and A. N. L. Chiu 11 Confidence intervals and design wind speeds / K. Seetharamuiu, B.L.P. Swami and K.K. Chaudhry 12 Peak gust and peak mean hourly winds in India-problems in a mixed population / G.N.V. Rae 13 Estimation of annual maximum wind speed distribution by a probabilistic procedure for typhoon-prone regions / M. Makino 14 Extreme value analysis of wind gusts in Singapore H. F. Cheong. Y. T. Chew and P. Lo 15 Forecasting hazardous floods / S.J. Burges 16 Flood hazards and its prevention on the lower reaches of the yellow river / S.Y. Gong and Z. Y. Wu 17 On prediction of flood hazards / J. D. Salas 18 Flood forecasting system in Tanshul river basin / C.L. Yen 19 Measures and problems of flood mitigation K.C. Sleb and K.F. Law 20 Urban flood mitigation works in Singapore Bukit Timah catchment / S. Selvalingam, S. Y. Liong and K. G. Yap 21 Flood and disaster management in Indonesia / S. Sukardi 22 Prediction of water and sediment outflow hydrograph caused by dam and river-levee failures / Y Muramoto and Y. Fuilta 23 A new approach on integrated flood control of Bangkok / t. Tingsanchall 24 Flood problems of Bangladesh / J.U. Chowdhury 25 New structural and non-structural measures against inundation damage in the Tokyo metropolitan areas / Y. Takahasi 26 Comparative study of flood-runoff analysis in view of disaster research / Y. Iwasa and K. Inoue 27 The impact on flood from the slopeland development / C. H. Tuan 28 Durable mud houses in flood affected areas / G. C. Mathur 29 Landslide-hazard reduction in the United States / R.L. Schuster 30 Ground failures in Southeast Asian countries / Z. C. Moh, W. S. Guo and C. T. Huang 31 Storm-induced pore pressures and debris flow initiation / N. Sitar 32 Slope failures in Hong Kong and their mitigation / A. D. Burnett 33 Landslides in Indonesia, its occurrences and the effort made to overcome the problems / J. D. Elifas 34 Landslides in mountain slopes during the Ecuador earthquakes of march 5, 1987 / K. Ishihara and S. Nakamura 35 A study on the erosion characteristics of Nanhua mudstone / S. T. Chen 36 A theoretical prediction of land subsidence due to water loss from aquifers / P. Karasudhi and S. Prechaverakul 37 Geological zoning for landslides / N. Oyagi 38 Engineering for safety against ground failures / L. S. Sri Vasta Va 39 Retaining wall failure due to heavy rainfall / S.K. Kim 40 Protective systems for earthquake hazards mitigation / R.L. Ketter 41 Some aspects of earthquake engineering in China / Z. X. Xu 42 Seismic damage analysis and damage-limiting design of masonry buildings / A. H. S. Ang and Y. H. Kwok 43 Engineering masonry buildings for disaster mitigation / A. S. Arya and B. Chandra 44.A study of earthquake acceleration response spectra at far field / S. L. Lee, T. Balendra and T. S. Tan 45 IRAS-An expert system for earthquake insurance and investment risk analysis / H. C. Shah, F. S. Wang, W. Dong, M. Lamarre and G.H. Miyasato 46 Seismic reliability of Bakun dam in Sarawak, Malaysia / M. Wieland and K. S. J. Goh 47 Aseismic structural optimization with safety criteria and code provisions / F. Y. Cheng 48 Urban earthquake hazards reduction problem areas and needs for multi-disciplinary research / H. Kameda, S. Iwai, A. Kitahara and N. Nojima 49 Comparison of seismic forces in Korea, USA and Japan C. S. Yu and C. S. Lee 50 A review of horizontal force factor for moment-resisting R. C. Frames / M. S. Sheu and P. C. Wang 51 Saguling-Cirata water reservoirs along Citarum river, West Jawa, Indonesia as reservoir-Induced seismicity / E. K. Kertapati 52 Input earthquake ground motions for disaster countermeasures / M. Watabe 53 Behaviors of brick wall partition under out-of-plane seismic load / C.C. Kao and L C. Tsai 54 Earthquake probability in Bangladesh / A. M.M. T. Anwar 55 Disaster prevention research in Taiwan / C. Y. Tsay, R. C. Hung, and Y. T. Yeh