Earthquake Engineering Abstracts provides comprehensive, authoritative coverage of earthquake engineering and earthquake hazard mitigation. EEA currently comprises over 114,000 records (full citations and abstracts) from 1971 forward, plus several hundred earlier classic papers and reports. EEA includes approximately 52,000 journal articles -- indexes and abstracts of all major journals that publish significant earthquake engineering research; approximately 40,000 meeting abstracts -- proceedings of conferences and major meetings in earthquake engineering research, and approximately 22,000 research reports' abstracts -- abstracts of research monographs and technical reports including Earthquake Engineering Research Center Reports and Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center Reports.
Sources covered include over 3,000 periodicals, conference proceedings, technical reports, trade journal/newsletter items, patents, books, and press releases.
Subject Coverage
Major areas of coverage include:
- Geotechnical earthquake engineering
- Performance-based seismic engineering
- Disaster planning
- Earthquake resistant design and analysis
- Engineering seismology
- Risk and reliability seismic engineering
- Soil dynamics
- Structural dynamics
Dates of Coverage
Approximately 1971-current. The oldest record in the database has a publication date of 1890; about 50% of its records have publication dates of 1992 or later.
Update Frequency
Once a month. Approximately 7,500 new records are added per year.
Size
Over 0 records as of May 2013
Thesaurus
The database is indexed using a master authority file of about 40,000 controlled-vocabulary terms. Older records in this database were indexed using a file-specific thesaurus; this thesaurus has now been incorporated into the master authority file. Supplier
University of California, Berkeley
National Information Service for Earthquake Engineering
Sample Record
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Title
The Third U.S.-Japan Workshop on Performance-Based Earthquake
Engineering Methodology for Reinforced Concrete Building Structures,
16-18 August 2001, Seattle, Washington |
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Source
Berkeley: Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center, University
of California, July 2002. 443 pp. |
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Publication Year
2002 |
| PB: |
Publisher
Berkeley: Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center, University
of California |
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Other Numbers
callno 400/P33/2002-02 |
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Notes
PEER |
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Abstract
Vegetation and other roughness elements distributed across a surface
can provide significant protection against wind erosion by extracting
momentum from the flow and thereby reducing the shear stress acting
at the surface. A theoretical model has previously been presented
to specify the partition of drag forces for rough surfaces and
to predict required vegetation density to suppress wind erosion.
However, the model parameters have not yet been constrained and
the predictive capacity of the model has remained uncertain. A
wind-tunnel study was conducted to measure the drag partition
for a range of roughness densities and to parameterise the model
in order to improve its range of potential applicability. The
drag forces acting on both an array of roughness elements and
the intervening surface were measured independently and simultaneously
using new drag balance instrumentation. A detailed measure of
the spatial heterogeneity of surface shear stresses was also made
using Irwin sensors. The data agreed well with previous results
and confirmed the general form of the model. Analysis of the drag
partition confirmed the parameter definition beta = C(R)/C(S)
(where C(R) and C(S) are roughness element and surface drag coefficients,
respectively) and a constant proportional difference between the
mean and maximum surface shear stress was found. The results of
this experiment suggest that the definition for m, the surface
shear stress inhomogeneity parameter, should be revised, although
the theoretical and physical reasons for including this parameter
in the model appear to be valid. Best-fit values for m ranged
from 0.53 to 0.58. (Author) |
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Language
English |
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Publication Type
Conference |
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Descriptors
U.s.-japan Workshop On Performance-based Earthquake Engineering
Methodology For Reinforced Concrete Building Structures, Third,
2001; U.s.-japan Workshop On Performance-based Earthquake Engineering
Methodology For Reinforced Concrete Building Structures, 3rd,
2001; United States; U.s.-japan Cooperative Research; Japan; Research;
California, Univ. Of, Berkeley; Pacific Earthquake Engineering
Research Center (peer); Reinforced Concrete Frames; Performance-based
Engineering; Reinforced Concrete Structures; Conferences; Performance-based
Design; Conference Proceedings
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Update
200312 |
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Accession Number
1278635 (EQ) |
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Field Codes
The following field codes are found in the records of this database.
Here they are listed in alphabetical order by two-letter code. See
Field Codes and Search Examples
for detailed descriptions and search examples.
| AB = Abstract |
KW = Keywords |
| AN = Accession Number |
LA = Language |
| AU = Author |
NT = Notes |
| CF = Conference |
NU = Other Numbers |
| DE = Descriptors |
PB = Publisher |
| IB = ISBN |
PT = Publication Type |
| IS = ISSN |
PY = Publication Year |
| JI = Journal Issue |
SO = Source |
| JN = Journal Name |
TI = Title |
| JV = Journal Volume |
UD = Update |
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