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Earthquake Resistant Structures - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia by smtht1 is a document available to read on EtoBox.
Earthquake engineering is treating its subject structures like defensive fortifications in military engineering but for the warfare on earthquakes. According to building codes, earthquake-resistant structures are meant to withstand the largest earthquake of a certain probability that is likely to occur at their location. This means the loss of life should be minimized by preventing collapse of the buildings for rare earthquakes while the loss of functionality should be limited for more frequent ones.
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