<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail-row" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><h2 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:futura-pt,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.05;margin-top:20px;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:24px;text-transform:uppercase">FROM SHORT-TERM EXTREME LOADS TO LONG-TERM DETERIORATION MECHANISMS</h2><h2 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:futura-pt,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.05;margin-top:20px;margin-bottom:20px;font-size:24px;text-transform:uppercase">NHERI LEHIGH SEMINAR SERIES<br style="box-sizing:border-box">NOVEMBER 9, 2017 | NOON - 1PM EST</h2></div><div class="gmail-row" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><h3 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:futura-pt,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:1.05;color:rgb(77,78,78);margin-top:20px;margin-bottom:10px;font-size:19px">ABSTRACT</h3><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px">Resilience-based design has seen major developments during the last two decades. As a design philosophy, it aims to improve rather to accurately predict the performance of a structural system. Research efforts have so far focused on extreme loading conditions with the majority of them addressing earthquake resilience, i.e. how to design a structural system to return to functionality after a short, if not immediate, time after a strong earthquake. Within 40 minutes, this seminar will present the major outcomes of two research projects on resilience-based design completed by the presenter and co-workers in the UK. </p></div><div class="gmail-row" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px">Details and registration on <a href="https://www.designsafe-ci.org/learning-center/seminar-171109/">DesignSafe-CI</a>. </p></div>
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