International Efforts in Lifeline Earthquake Engineering

Proceedings of the Sixth China-Japan-U.S. Trilateral Symposium on Lifeline Earthquake Engineering held in Chengdu China May 28a"June 1 2013. Sponsored by Beijing University of Technology China; Kanazawa University Japan; University of Southern California U.S.A.; Southwest Jiaotong University China; Shanghai Institute of Disaster Prevention and Relief China; Research Institute of Lifeline Engineering Inc. Japan; Lifeline Network Kansai (LiNK) Japan; American Society of Civil Engineers Technical Council on Lifeline Earthquake Engineering (TCLEE) U.S.A.; International Association of Chinese Geotechnical Engineers (IACGE) U.S.A.; and the National Natural Science Foundation of China.

This TCLEE Monograph contains 86 peer-reviewed papers covering recent developments in lifeline earthquake engineering involving water wastewater gas and liquid fuels electrical power telecommunications and transportation systems.

Topics include: seismicity ground motions and site effects seismic performance modeling evaluation and design of infrastructure systems seismic reliability and post-earthquake serviceability recovery and resilience of lifeline systems hospitals lifeline interactions fire following earthquake tunnels and underground structures geotechnical and structural earthquake behavior related to lifelines seismic testing and analysis for lifelines