By E. N. Bernard, G. T. Hebenstreit (auth.), Gerald T. Hebenstreit (eds.)
This quantity, derived from the 1999 foreign Tsunami Symposium, offers a special examine the country of tsunami learn on the finish of the twentieth century. It monitors fresh development either in information restoration and reconstructions of ancient tsunamis and intimately exam of modern failures. It exhibits the tsunami neighborhood utilizing either conventional equipment of information collecting - looking out files and trying to simulate prior occasions - and integrating sleek applied sciences - side-scan sonar, GPS, international communications, supercomputers - within the quest to appreciate tsunamis and increase mankind's skill to mitigate the disastrous results of those unpredictable and unstoppable occasions. It chronicles fresh advances in mitigation efforts whereas illuminating the continued want for elevated efforts. The papers variety from descriptive texts for the non-specialists to rather technical discussions for these acquainted with tsunami learn.
Audience: This ebook should be of curiosity to researchers and graduate scholars focused on usual dangers learn, actual oceanography, seismology, environmental effect overview and probability assessment.
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4, 415-440. TSUNAMI SCOUR MECHANISMS AROUND A CYLINDER Harry Yeh Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-2700, USA and Public Works Research Institute, 1 Asahi, Tsukuba, Japan Fuminori Kato Public Works Research Institute 1 Asahi, Tsukuba, Japan Shinji Sato Department of Civil Engineering University of Tokyo, Japan Abstract The scouring mechanism due to tsunami run-up around a vertical cylinder was investigated experimentally using a large-scale tsunami experimental facility.
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