Developing an Internet Oriented Platform for Earthquake Engineering Application and Web-based Virtual Reality Simulation System for Seismic hazards: Towards Disaster Mitigation in Metropolises

This paper reviews the state of the art on risk communication to the public, with an emphasis on simulation of seismic hazards using VRML. Rapid growth computer technologies, especially the Internet provide human beings new measures to deal with engineering and social problems which were hard to sol...

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Main Authors: Ali Alaghehbandian, Ping Zhu, Masato Abe, Junji Kiyono
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: International Institute of Informatics and Cybernetics 2003-04-01
Series:Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics
Subjects:
FEM
Online Access:http://www.iiisci.org/Journal/CV$/sci/pdfs/P376914.pdf