TECHNOLOGY: Affordable Housing

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Consequence-based Engineering Approach towards Earthquake Disaster Mitigation By Fawad Najam and Naveed Anwar

Through a coordinated engineering approach on the basis of anticipated consequences across systems (rather than individual structures), earthquake disaster mitigation action plans can be optimally prescribed and the engineers can minimize consequences of such extreme events through selected interventions.


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