Market_Desc: PrimaryPractising earthquake professionals, including researchers, designers, risk advisors and managers, engineers, architects and planners.SecondaryPost-graduate engineering and architectural students, and senior under-graduate engineering and architectural students. Special Features: · Covers all topics required to carry out effective earthquake resistant design and risk reduction.· Provides valuable practical guidance for practising engineers· Discusses the new topics of the creation of low-damage structures and the spatial distribution of ground shaking near large fault ruptures· Includes numerous illustrations and pedagogical features such as tables, graphs, maps, construction details, photos, diagrams of structures, diagrams of site conditions, plots of material/structural behaviour, flow charts, response spectra and case studies· Features extensive and effective cross-referencing to facilitate further research into chosen areas About The Book: Earthquake Resistant Design and Risk Reduction, 2nd edition is based upon global research and development work over the last 50 years or more, and follows the author s series of three books Earthquake Resistant Design, 1st and 2nd editions (1977 and 1987), and Earthquake Risk Reduction (2003). Many advances have been made since the 2003 edition of Earthquake Risk Reduction, and there is every sign that this rate of progress will continue apace in the years to come. Compiled from the author s wide design and research experience in earthquake engineering and engineering seismology, this key text provides an excellent treatment of the complex multidisciplinary process of earthquake resistant design and risk reduction.