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How Buildings Respond to Earthquakes
published by the Research Foundation of the State of New York
This website, produced by MCEER, provides an explanation of how buildings typically respond to earthquakes.  The article discusses physics concepts such as Newton's Laws, inertial forces, and the frequency and period of buildings.  Material properties including stiffness, ductility, and damping are also discussed in terms of their influence on building responses to earthquakes.
http://mceer.buffalo.edu/Infoservice/Reference_Services/BuildingRe...
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Motion, Forces, and Energy
- Applications of Newton's Laws
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- Engineering
- Geoscience
Waves and Pendula
- Oscillations
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- Lower Undergraduate
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Access Rights: Free access
Restriction: © 2007
Additional information is available.
Keywords: damping, earthquake, inertia, material science, resonance, structure, tremor
Record Creator: Metadata instance created May 22, 2007 by Ann Deml
Record Updated: May 23, 2007 by Ed Lee
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How Buildings Respond to Earthquakes (Research Foundation of the State of New York, Buffalo, 2007), WWW Document, (http://mceer.buffalo.edu/Infoservice/Reference_Services/BuildingRespondEQ.asp).
APA Format
How Buildings Respond to Earthquakes. (2007). Retrieved September 8, 2010, from Research Foundation of the State of New York: http://mceer.buffalo.edu/Infoservice/Reference_Services/BuildingRespondEQ.asp
Chicago Format
Research Foundation of the State of New York. How Buildings Respond to Earthquakes. Buffalo: Research Foundation of the State of New York, 2007. http://mceer.buffalo.edu/Infoservice/Reference_Services/BuildingRespondEQ.asp (accessed 8 September 2010).
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How Buildings Respond to Earthquakes. Buffalo: Research Foundation of the State of New York, 2007. 8 Sep. 2010 <http://mceer.buffalo.edu/Infoservice/Reference_Services/BuildingRespondEQ.asp>.
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