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Earthquake Engineering in Areas Away from Tectonic Plate Boundaries

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This article presents findings on many facets of research into engineering for mitigating earthquake hazards in regions remote from tectonic plate boundaries. Topics covered include seismic activities in intraplate regions, ground motion behaviour of intraplate earthquakes, considerations of site modification behaviour, structural design and detailing of reinforced concrete and structural analysis in regions of low-to-moderate seismicity. Much of the materials presented were generated from collaborative research involving the author and numerous esteemed collaborators over many years. The challenges that are being attended to are distinctive to those addressed in mainstream earthquake engineering research which is applicable to areas in proximity to tectonic plate boundaries.

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Acknowledgements

Much of the materials presented in this paper were generated from col-laborative research across many institutions including University of Mel-bourne over many years. Contributions from the following persons are specifically acknowledged: Professor John Wilson, Dr Hing Ho Tsang, Dr Daniel Looi, Dr Elisa Lumantarna and Dr Scott Menegon, and along with numerous PhD candidates who were supervised by the author in the past. The assistance given by Rohit Tiwari in relation to my travel to India and the preparation of the keynote presentation is also acknowledged. Finan-cial support of the Commonwealth Government of Australia through the Cooperative Research Centre program is acknowledged.

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Lam, N. (2021). Earthquake Engineering in Areas Away from Tectonic Plate Boundaries. In: Saha, S.K., Mukherjee, M. (eds) Recent Advances in Computational Mechanics and Simulations. Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering, vol 103. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-8138-0_29

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