Lessons learned from tsunami damage in Sri Lanka

Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Civil Engineering

Volumn 159, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 74-81

  Dias, Priyan ^a   Dissanayake, Ranjith ^b   Chandratilake, Ravihansa ^a  

^a University Moratuwa   (Sri Lanka)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERADENIYA   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

Disaster engineering; Failures; Safety Standards

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; FLOOD DAMAGE; TSUNAMI;

ASIA; EURASIA; SOUTH ASIA; SRI LANKA;

EID: 33745134691     PISSN: 0965089X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1680/cien.2006.159.2.74     Document Type: Review

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