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ANESTIS S . VELETSOS
Pages 334-341

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... ROESSET ANESTIS STAVROU VELETSOS, one of the legends of structural dynamics and earthquake engineering, passed away peacefully in Houston surrounded by his family on October 25, 2018. He was 91 years old.
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From page 336...
... He did seminal research in all areas of structural dynamics and earthquake engineering involving structures, soils, and foundations as well as tanks filled with fluid or granular materials. In the 1950s and early 1960s, under a project sponsored by AASHTO (the American Association of State Highway Transportation Officials)
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... , Andy explained that this would not always be true: whether the effects were beneficial or detrimental depended on the relation between the natural frequencies of the system and the frequency content of the earthquake. The response of rigid and flexible retaining walls to s­ eismic excitation was another topic in which Andy's work represented a significant contribution, allowing comparison of analytical solutions with those resulting from the MononobeOkabe method commonly used in practice and to study the effect of various parameters.
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From page 338...
... Housner Medal (1997) of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, the institute's highest honor, given in recognition of sustained leadership and contributions to earthquake engineering and earthquake risk mitigation.
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... Reginald DesRoches, the William and Stephanie Sick Dean of Rice University's George R Brown School of Engineering: "A handful of people have transformed the field of earthquake engineering over the past century.
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... Of late there's been a disturbing vibration in these Pearly Gates, and you're just the expert on structural dynamics we need to fix them!
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