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UNDER this title, there is published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Arts (August 23, 1940) the text of a paper read by Mr. D. Laugharne Thornton in which he gave an account of the salient features to be observed in the design of structures for regions subject to earthquakes. Mr. Thornton, an authority on vibration, has treated the behaviour of earth waves in his recent book “Mechanics Applied to Vibrations and Balancing”. The subject of his paper was primarily of interest to engineers, to whom the problem set by earth phenomena is how to mitigate the great loss of life and property attendant on them. It concerns also those charged with public safety, to whom several of his inferences and conclusions are likely to be of moment, such, for example, as the care which must be taken to ensure that the form of structure, the choice of materials, and the nature of the loading permitted must be adapted to the local conditions.
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Earthquakes and Structures. Nature 146, 437–438 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146437b0
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