Proceedings of the 7th U. S. National Conference on Earthquake Engineering

Contains over 450 papers presented in 67 sessions at the July 21-25, 2002 conference in Boston, Massachusetts, on the theme "Urban Earthquake Risk." Organized by topic under the following 17 areas: advanced technology, awareness and education, bridges, design criteria, engineering practice, ground motions, geotechnical structures, loss estimation, lifelines, lessons from recent earthquakes, NEES: experimental facilities, nonstructural components, panel sessions, response and recovery, seismic code issues, social issues, and structures. Contains a comprehensive table of contents and author index.Earthquake Engineering Research Institute is the author of 'Proceedings of the 7th U. S. National Conference on Earthquake Engineering', published 2002 under ISBN 9780943198101 and ISBN 0943198100.