Completing Our Panel's Work.
Completing Our Panel's Work.
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Wright, R. N.
NIST SP 931; August 1998.
U.S./Japan Natural Resources Development Program (UJNR).
Wind and Seismic Effects. Joint Meeting of the
U.S./Japan Cooperative Program in Natural Resources
Panel on Wind and Seismic Effects, 30th. May 12-15,
1998, Gaithersburg, MD, Raufaste, N. J., Jr., Editor(s),
13-19 pp, 1998.
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Keywords:
disaster mitigation; earth science; earthquakes;
earthquake engineering; meteorology; seismology; social
science; wind engineering
Abstract:
Our 30th Joint Meeting provides an opportunity to
reflect on our work and accomplishments and establish
our view for the future of our U.S./Japan Panel on Wind
and Seismic Effects. The Panel has helped us, in the
United States, in Japan, and in the world, to (1) focus,
coordinate and amplify efforts of government, academia
and industry to better understand extreme wind and
eatthquake phenomena, and (2) increase the resistance of
our built environment and society to their destructive
effects. Is it not time to commit ourselves to the
solution of the problem of destructive winds and
earthquakes? Can we make it the objective for the next
20 years of the Panel to work together, with the
international wind and earthquake communities, to
provide: (1) the knowledge of extreme wind and
earthquake phenomena; (2) the practices for planning
design, construction, operation, maintenance, and
rehabilitation of our built environment; and (3) the
incentives for societal actions to apply the practices
that together will end the threat of wind and earthquake
disasters?
Building and Fire Research Laboratory
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Gaithersburg, MD 20899