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Earthquake Engineering Research Centre
The Earthquake Engineering Research Centre of the University of Iceland was established in the year 2000 with a special contract between the University of Iceland, Ministry of education, Ministry of justice, Township of Árborg and the Civil defence.
Icelandic Strong Motion Network
Earthquake Engineering
The objective of the earthquake engineering research, within the Centre, is to gain knowledge of the nature and effect of earthquakes. The main areas of research are:
- Mathematical modelling of earthquakes
- Measurements
- Earthquake loading
- System identification of structures
- Earthquake mitigation in complex structures
- Risk analysis of structures
- Earthquake resistance of hydroelectric power plants
- Earthquake resistance of lifelines