Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Invitational Workshop Proceedings, May 14-15, 1998 : Defining the Links Between Planning, Policy Analysis, Economics and Earthquake Engineering.

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California, Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Centre, 1998Description: 84 pDDC classification:

624.1762 21

Subject: The recently established PEER Center is committed to integrating social science and earthquake engineering research. How should integration proceed? What can social scientists contribute to PEER's interest in performance-based engineering? These and other questions were addressed at the wokshop. Generally, it appears that whereas performance-based engineering seeks optimal solutions to the achievement of given standards, social scientists can contribute to the deviation of optimal standards. In this sense, the complementarity of social science and earthquake engineering is clear. The details, of course, are where the interesting issues lie. There is no single social science perspective. And, the aggregation of individuals' preferences to some social welfare function from which optimal standards of structural design can be inferred is problematic. These two thoughts were repeated in various forms throughout two days of the meetings

Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.

Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Australian Emergency Management Library	BOOK	F624.1762 PAC (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		900070442

Browsing Australian Emergency Management Library shelves, Collection: BOOK Close shelf browser (Hides shelf browser)

Previous		No cover image available No cover image available		No cover image available No cover image available	No cover image available No cover image available	No cover image available No cover image available	No cover image available No cover image available	Next
Previous	F624.1762 EAR Abstracts of papers presented at the Earthquake Engineering Symposium, Sydney, 2-3 December 1986,.	F624.1762 IZM Izmit (Kocaeli), Turkey, earthquake of August 17, 1999 including Duzce earthquake of November 12, 1999 : lifeline performance /	F624.1762 NEW Newcastle earthquake study.	F624.1762 PAC Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Invitational Workshop Proceedings, May 14-15, 1998 : Defining the Links Between Planning, Policy Analysis, Economics and Earthquake Engineering.	F624.1762 PRO Proceedings of the Center-to-Center Project Workshop on earthquake engineering frontiers in transportation systems : edited by H. Kameda and Ian M. Friedland ; organized by International Center for Disaster-Mitigation Engineering (INCEDE) in cooperation with Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (MCEER). ; June 22-23, 1998, Tokyo, Japan /	F624.1762 PRO Proceedings from the Sixth Japan-U.S. Workshop on Earthquake Resistant Design of Lifeline Facilities and Countermeasures Against Soil Liquefaction : held at Waseda University Tokyo, Japan, June 11-13, 1996.	F624.1762 PRO Proceedings of the 2nd U.S. National Conference on Earthquake Engineering.	Next

Includes bibliographical references

Report no. PEER-98/04

The recently established PEER Center is committed to integrating social science and earthquake engineering research. How should integration proceed? What can social scientists contribute to PEER's interest in performance-based engineering? These and other questions were addressed at the wokshop. Generally, it appears that whereas performance-based engineering seeks optimal solutions to the achievement of given standards, social scientists can contribute to the deviation of optimal standards. In this sense, the complementarity of social science and earthquake engineering is clear. The details, of course, are where the interesting issues lie. There is no single social science perspective. And, the aggregation of individuals' preferences to some social welfare function from which optimal standards of structural design can be inferred is problematic. These two thoughts were repeated in various forms throughout two days of the meetings

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.