The development of design criteria for extreme events arising from natural hazards.

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Townsville, Qld.: James Cook University of North Queensland, 1979Description: 15 pDDC classification:

363.3470994 21

Subject: Natural hazards which produce severe events at very infrequent intervals pose difficult problems for engineers faced with the task of designing structures and planning strategies to mitigate their effects in areas where they are likely to occur. The primary object is to reduce the potential scale of disaster from such an event to a level acceptable to the community. In this paper the various factors which contribute to the potential for disaster are discussed and some basic principles that can be incorporated in the development of design and planning criteria are derived

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Australian Emergency Management Library	BOOK	F363.3470994 DEV (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		900007958

"Paper presented to U.S.-S.E. Asia Joint Symposium on Engineering for Natural Hazards Protection, Manila, Philippines. September, 1977"

References: p. 11-13

Natural hazards which produce severe events at very infrequent intervals pose difficult problems for engineers faced with the task of designing structures and planning strategies to mitigate their effects in areas where they are likely to occur. The primary object is to reduce the potential scale of disaster from such an event to a level acceptable to the community. In this paper the various factors which contribute to the potential for disaster are discussed and some basic principles that can be incorporated in the development of design and planning criteria are derived

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