Engineering student interested in designing structures to withstand natural disasters'

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Engineering student interested in designing
structures to withstand natural disasters.
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Refining your topic

• What kind of structures?
• buildings? or Bridges?
• What kind of natural disasters?
• Earthquakes?
• Specific geographic location?
• Canada? or Japan?

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Refined topicDesigning buildings to withstand
earthquakes in Japan.
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Creating your search statement

• (design? or construct? or engineer?) AND
• building?
• (earthquake? or natural disaster?) AND
• Japan?

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Citations from Bibliographies

• Tremblay, Robert. Seismic Design of Steel
  Buildings Lessons from the 1995 Hyogo-ken Nanbu
  Earthquake. Canadian Journal of Civil
  Engineering, v 23, n 3, 1996, p 727-756.
• Molas, G. L. and Yamazaki, F. 1995. Attenuation
  of Earthquake Ground Motion in Japan, Including
  Deep Focus Events, Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am., 85,
  5, 1343-1358.
• Katayama, Tsuneo. Lifeline earthquake engineering
  in Japan. Proceedings of the Third US Conference
  on Lifeline Earthquake Engineering, Los Angeles,
  Calif., 1991 p 17-32.