Resilience and mitigation through hardening the built environment

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04 Dec 2014

Resilience and mitigation through hardening the built environment (buildings and infrastructure).

Cost effective mitigation strategies for earthquake risk.

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Key Topics

earthquake
engineering
environments

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Prof Michael Griffith
Researcher
michael.griffith@adelaide.edu.au

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