- 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami in South-West Coast of Sri Lanka and Its Damage (832kb)
Takashi Tomita, Taro Arikawa, PARI; Tomohiro Yasuda, Kyoto University; Fumihiko Imamura, Tohoku University; and Yoshiaki Kawata, Kyoto University
- Experimental and Numerical Simulations of Tsunami-Structures Interaction (273kb)
Solomon Yim, Oregon State University
- Wave Force on Coastal Dike due to Tsunami (850kb)
Masaya Fukuhama, Fuminori Kato , and Shigeki Inagaki, NILIM
- Report on Damage to Infrastructures by the
Mid Niigata Prefecture Earthquake in 2004 (4,394kb)
NILIM-PWRI Joint Reconnaissance Team for the Mid Niigata Prefecture Earthquake in 2004 (Presented by Osamu Matsuo, PWRI)
- Outline of Reconnaissance Report of Damage of Building during the Mid Niigata Prefecture Earthquake in 2004 (1,452kb)
NILIM-BRI Joint Reconnaissance Team of Damage of Buildings (Presented by Masanori Iiba, NILIM)
- Projected on 3-D Full-Scale Earthquake Testing Facility (The Fifth Report) (222kb)
Toru Hayama, Masayoshi Nakashima, Takahito Inoue and Ken-ichi Abe, NIED (Presented by Chikahiro Minowa, NIED)
- Constant Acceleration of Superstructures A Concept of Seismic Isolation (241kb)
George C. Lee and Zach Liang, MCEER, University at Buffalo
- Retrofit of Structures: Strength Reduction with Damping Enhancement (471kb)
Andrei M. Reinhorn, University at Buffalo; Stefania Viti, University of Florence; and GianPaolo Cimellaro, University at Buffalo (Presented by Zach Liang, MCEER)
- Semi-active Control of Base Isolation System with Magneto-rheological Fluid Damper (787kb)
Namihiko Inoue, BRI; Morimasa Watakabe, Toda Corp.; Takafumi Miyama, Fujita Corp.; and Hidekazu Nishimura, Chiba University
- Wind Dampers and Prospects for Accelerated Wind Damage Reduction in Japan and in the United States (850kb)
Hironori Kikugawa, Oita National College of Technology; and
Bogusz Bienkiewicz, Colorado State University
- Velocity Measurements in a Laboratory Tornado Simulator and their comparison with Numerical and Full-Scale Data (274kb)
Partha Sarkar, Fred Haan, William Gallus, Jr., Kuai Le, Iowa State University; and Joshua Wurman, Center for Severe Weather Research, NOAA
- Features of the Wind Field associated with Typhoon 0418 (Songda) Compared with Those of Typhoon 9119 (Mireille) (3,719kb)
Fumiaki Fujibe, Naoko Kitabatake, Kotaro Bessho, and Shunsuke Hoshino, MRI
- The Hurricane-Flood-Landslide Continuum - Forecasting Hurricane Effects at Landfall (377kb)
Joseph Golden, Edward Tollerud, NOAA; A. Negri, NASA; and Randy Updike, USGS
- Real-time Seimic Monitoring of the New Cape Girardeau (MO) Bridge (812kb)
Mehmet Celebi, USGS
- Characteristics of Earthquake Ground Motion during the Aftershocks of Mid Niigata Prefecture Earthquake in 2004 (483kb)
Shin Koyama, Toshihide Kashima, Izuru Okawa, BRI; Masanori Iiba, NILIM; and Koichi Morita, BRI
- Structural Health Monitoring by Detection of Abrupt Changes in Response Using Wavelets: Application to a 6-story RC Building Damaged by an Earthquake (989kb)
Maria I. Todorovska and Mihailo D. Trifunac, USC
- Foundation Flexibility Effects on the Seismic Response of Concrete Gravity Dams (686kb)
Jose E. Inaudi, SIRVE Vibration Reduction Systems; Enrique E. Matheu, ERDC/USACE; Rick L. Poeppelman, USACE; and Ariel Matusevich, SIRVE Vibration Reduction Systems
- Effect of Ground Motion Level and Dam Shape on Damage Characteristics in Concrete Gravity Dam (645kb)
Takashi Sasaki, Ken-ichi Kanenawa, Yoshikazu Yamaguchi, and Junya Chiba, PWRI
- Application of Information & Communication System for Better Coordination among the Emergency Responders (1,319kb)
Takaaki Kusakabe and Akihiro Sanada, NILIM
- Development of Methodology to Identify the Area where Buildings are Broken Down by Earthquakes using Airborne Laser Technology (648kb)
Hiromichi Maruyama, Masuo Taguchi, Masanori Sugiyama, and Yoshinori Suzuki, GSI
- FHWA Recommendations for Seismic Performance Testing of Bridge Piers (242kb)
Jia-Dzwan Jerry Shen, Phillip Yen and John O'Fallon, FHWA
- Seismic Retrofitting Sites for Existing Foundations (350kb)
Jiro Fukui, Masahiro Ishida and Masahiro Takeguchi, PWRI
- Analysis and Distributed Hybrid Simulation of Shear-Sensitive RC Bridges Subjected to Horizontal and Vertical Earthquake Ground Motion (1,544kb)
Amr Elnashai, Bill Spencer , Dan Kuchma, Sung Jig Kim, Nicholas Burdette, Curtis Holub, Johanna Gonzales, Narutoshi Nakata, Guangqiang Yang, and Quan Gan, Universty of Illinois
- Fire-Resistance of Steel Beam Joints Connected by High Strength Bolts (708kb)
Mamoru Kohno, NILIM; and Fuminobu Ozaki, ETHZ
- Handbook for Seismic Rehabilitation of Existing Buildings (128kb)
H. S. Lew, NIST
- State of the Road Tunnel Safety Technology in Japan (48kb)
Hideto Mashimo, PWRI
- Application of Geographic Information Systems and Global Positioning Systems for Public Health Rapid Needs Assessments in Disaster Settings (46kb)
Stancy YOUNG, Carlos SANCHEZ and Josephine MALILAY,CDC
- Change in the Sea Surface Height Observed by Satellite Altimetry before and after the 2004 Sumatra-Andaman Earthquake
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Yutaka Hayashi, MRI; Nobuo Hamada, Tsurane Kuragano, Toshiyuki Sakurai, JMA; Hiromi Takayama, Yohei Hasegawa, MRI; and Kenji Hirata, JAMSTEC
- Effects of the Mid Niigata Prefecture Earthquake in 2004 on Dams (3,263kb)
Nario Yasuda, NILIM; Masafumi Kondo, Japan Dam Engineering Center; Takayuki Sano, Hidetaka Yoshioka, NILIM; Yoshikazu Yamaguchi, Takashi Sasaki and Naoki Tomita, PWRI
- The Relationship between Landslide Distribution and the Superposition of Geology, Geomorphology, and Hypocenter: The Mid Niigata Earthquake in 2004 (239kb)
Hiroshi Sato, Tatsuo Sekiguchi, Ryoichi Kojiroi, Yoshinori Suzuki, Makoto Iida and Masanori Sugiyama, GSI