TY - GEN
T1 - From San Francisco to Naples
T2 - 8th US National Conference on Earthquake Engineering 2006
AU - DiSarno, L.
AU - Elnashai, Amr S.
AU - Carter, M.
PY - 2006/12/1
Y1 - 2006/12/1
N2 - In December 1931 John Ripley Freeman completed one of the earliest monographs to deal specifically with earthquakes from an engineering point of view. His sixty year career had taken him from an engineering office in Lawrence, Massachusetts to many parts of the world where earthquakes threaten communities. Freeman's legacy is manifold and will be explored in depth in this paper, centred on (i) his pioneering work to obtain improved engineering data for design against earthquake actions; (ii) his unstinting efforts to promote the development of earthquake engineering in the USA both through lobbying government officials and educating fellow practitioners to improve human safety through safer building design and (iii) his openness to new ideas and methods in earthquake engineering from around the world, and his important role, in particular, in popularising the work of earthquake engineering practitioners in Japan and Italy, to the Anglophone world.
AB - In December 1931 John Ripley Freeman completed one of the earliest monographs to deal specifically with earthquakes from an engineering point of view. His sixty year career had taken him from an engineering office in Lawrence, Massachusetts to many parts of the world where earthquakes threaten communities. Freeman's legacy is manifold and will be explored in depth in this paper, centred on (i) his pioneering work to obtain improved engineering data for design against earthquake actions; (ii) his unstinting efforts to promote the development of earthquake engineering in the USA both through lobbying government officials and educating fellow practitioners to improve human safety through safer building design and (iii) his openness to new ideas and methods in earthquake engineering from around the world, and his important role, in particular, in popularising the work of earthquake engineering practitioners in Japan and Italy, to the Anglophone world.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84865843901
SN - 9781615670444
T3 - 8th US National Conference on Earthquake Engineering 2006
SP - 2932
EP - 2941
BT - 8th US National Conference on Earthquake Engineering 2006
Y2 - 18 April 2006 through 22 April 2006
ER -