Steps of Creation of Seismic Isolation Strategies for Sustainable Development of Construction Industry in Armenia
Earthquake engineering is one of the rather complicated fields of human activities. There is too much uncertainty in this discipline, from the earthquake phenomenon to the properties of building structures that have to withstand it. Despite notable achievements in this field, we have to admit that the humankind is still far from solving the puzzles of the Nature that it opens to us little by little with each new earthquake.
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