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Contents

The Earthquake Engineering Online Archive and NISEE e-library is a database of significant, publicly-funded research and development literature, photographs, data and software in earthquake structural and geotechnical engineering and earthquake public policy.

The archive is updated daily. The UCB-EERC reports, PEER Center reports, UCB-SEMM reports, UCB-GEOTECH reports, other university research research reports, and selected papers and reports from the NISEE Online Library are included in the archive. Earthquake damage images, experimental data and movies, and research software are also included in the contents.

ANY FINDINGS, CONCLUSIONS, AND OPINIONS EXPRESSED IN MATERIALS WITHIN THE EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING ONLINE ARCHIVE AND NISEE E-LIBRARY ARE THOSE OF THE AUTHOR(S) AND DO NOT NECESSARILY REFLECT THE VIEWS OF THE PACIFIC EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING RESEARCH CENTER (PEER) OR THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY (UCB). NEITHER UCB NOR PEER ASSUME ANY LIABILITIES WITH RESPECT TO THE USE OF, OR DAMAGE RESULTING FROM THE USE OF ANY INFORMATION DISCLOSED IN THE EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING ONLINE ARCHIVE AND NISEE E-LIBRARY.

Search Syntax

Word(s): chopra el centro (default search is AND)

Required (+/-) term: godden +france –paris

Phrase: "nonlinear analysis"

Specific field: creator:"Mahin, Stephen A." AND date:1999 AND school

Use

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Text and Images

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Text and images may be downloaded and printed in accordance with U.S. fair use laws for the purposes of personal research, teaching and private study without permission from copyright holders as long as downloads do not exceed 30 items per month (30 sequential days). Under copyright law of the United States of America, if a user makes a request for or later uses a reproduction for purposes in excess of fair use, that user may be liable for copyright infringement. The texts and images may not be redistributed in whole or in part, in print or electronic format, stored on servers, or used for any commercial purposes without prior written permission from the copyright owner and the PEER-NISEE Library, University of California, Berkeley. Texts and images used in teaching must credit Courtesy of the National Information Service for Earthquake Engineering, PEER-NISEE, University of California, Berkeley


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Software and Data

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