George William Housner

George William Housner's AcademicInfluence.com Rankings

Engineering

#2181

World Rank

#3046

Historical Rank

Civil Engineering

#57

World Rank

#85

Historical Rank

engineering Degrees

Download Badge

Engineering

George William Housner's Degrees

PhD Civil Engineering California Institute of Technology
Masters Civil Engineering California Institute of Technology
Bachelors Civil Engineering University of California, Berkeley

Why Is George William Housner Influential?

(Suggest an Edit or Addition)

(See a Problem?)

George William Housner's Published Works

Number of citations in a given year to any of this author's works

Total number of citations to an author for the works they published in a given year. This highlights publication of the most important work(s) by the author

Published Works

The behavior of inverted pendulum structures during earthquakes (1963) (1324)
STRUCTURAL CONTROL: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE (1997) (1302)
The dynamic behavior of water tanks (1963) (613)
Dynamic pressures on accelerated fluid containers (1957) (549)
Limit Design of Structures to Resist Earthquakes (1956) (449)
Behavior of Structures During Earthquakes (1959) (380)
Spectrum Intensities of Strong-Motion Earthquakes (1952) (348)
Simulated earthquake motions (1968) (229)
Generation of Artificial Earthquakes (1964) (221)
Seismic Design of Liquid Storage Tanks (1981) (207)
Earthquake Response of Deformable Liquid Storage Tanks (1981) (181)
Characteristics of strong-motion earthquakes (1947) (175)
Properties of strong ground motion earthquakes (1955) (114)
Analysis of accelerograms—Parkfield earthquake (1967) (112)
Second Generation of Active Structural Control in Civil Engineering (1996) (108)
Spectrum analysis of strong-motion earthquakes (1953) (95)
Measures of severity of earthquake ground shaking (1975) (94)
Interaction of building and ground during an earthquake (1957) (93)
Integrated velocity and displacement of strong earthquake ground motion (1961) (87)
Ambient Vibration Tests of a Suspension Bridge (1978) (81)
Hydrodynamic pressures on sloping dams during earthquakes. Part 1. Momentum method (1978) (80)
Dynamic Characteristics of Liquid Storage Tanks (1982) (73)
Earthquake pressures on fluid containers (1954) (71)
The Great Tangshan Earthquake of 1976 (2002) (70)
An Overview of Active Structural Control under Seismic Loads (1991) (67)
Intensity of ground motion during strong earthquakes (1952) (62)
Special issue : Structural control : Past, present, and future (1997) (62)
Calculating the response of an oscillator to arbitrary ground motion (1941) (60)
COMPETING AGAINST TIME: REPORT TO GOVERNOR GEORGE DEUKMEJIAN (1990) (54)
The response of veterans hospital building 41 in the San Fernando earthquake (1982) (54)
Natural Periods of Vibration of Buildings (1963) (53)
Earthquake Design Criteria (1982) (52)
Effect of foundation compliance on earthquake stresses in multistory buildings (1954) (51)
Applied Mechanics Dynamics (1959) (51)
The mechanism of sandblows (1958) (50)
The Continuing Challenge: Report on the Performance of State Bridges in the Northridge Earthquake (1995) (50)
Competing against Time: Report of the Governor's Board of Inquiry on the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake (1990) (50)
The Port Hueneme earthquake of March 18, 1957 (1958) (49)
The Analysis Of Stress And Deformation (1966) (45)
Complications in Free Vibration Analysis of Tanks (1982) (41)
Numerical Model for Tsunami Run-Up (1970) (41)
Dynamics of structures, Ray W. Clough and Joseph Penzien, McGraw-Hill, 1975, 634 pages, $21.50 (1976) (30)
The San Fernando California earthquake (1972) (27)
An investigation of the effects of earthquakes on buildings (1941) (27)
AN HISTORICAL VIEW OF EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING (1984) (27)
The efffct of torsional oscillations on earthquake stresses (1958) (26)
Dynamic responses of six multistory buildings during the San Fernando earthquake (1975) (24)
Vibration tests of the Encino Dam intake tower (1961) (24)
The Estimation of Linear Trends (1948) (24)
Proceedings of the first world conference on structural control (1996) (24)
An analysis of strong-motion accelerometer data from the San Francisco earthquake of March 22, 1957 (1958) (21)
Dynamic Behavior of Supercritically Loaded Struts (1962) (20)
The Plastic Failure of Frames During Earthquakes (1960) (19)
Vibrations of Linearly Tapered Cantilever Beams (1962) (19)
AN ANALYSIS OF THE DYNAMIC CHARACTERISTICS OF A SUSPENSION BRIDGE BY AMBIENT VIBRATION MEASUREMENTS (1977) (16)
The analysis of strong-motion earthquake records with the Electric Analog Computor (1949) (16)
Finding fault (1995) (15)
Geotechnical Problems of Destructive Earthquakes (1954) (15)
Ground displacement computed from strong-motion accelerograms (1947) (14)
Earthquake design criteria for structures (1977) (12)
Problems in Seismic Zoning (1974) (12)
Natural Disaster Reduction (1997) (11)
Earthquake Protection of Essential Building Equipment (1983) (10)
A Selection of important strong motion earthquake records (1980) (10)
A dynamic test of a four-story reinforced concrete building (1953) (9)
Response of a structure to an explosive-generated ground shock (1954) (8)
EARTHQUAKE RESEARCH PROBLEMS OF NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS (1966) (8)
Closure to “Ambient Vibration Tests of Suspension Bridge” (1980) (8)
Aseismic Design Analysis of Buildings [Book Review] (1974) (7)
Earthquake Research Needs for Nuclear Power Plants (1971) (7)
Recent developments in active structural control research in the USA (1992) (6)
2 Historical view of earthquake engineering (2002) (6)
VIBRATION TESTS OF A STEEL-FRAME BUILDING (1954) (6)
Aseismic Design Analysis of Buildings (1974) (6)
Earthquake Resistant Design Based on Dynamic Properties of Earthquakes (1956) (6)
DISCUSSION OF COMPARISON OF FOOTING VIBRATION TESTS WITH THEORY (1969) (6)
Performance of the base-isolated USC University Hospital under the 1994 Northridge earthquake (1994) (6)
WHAT THE IDNDR HAS MEANT TO THE EARTHQUAKE COMMUNITY (2000) (5)
Discussion of Analytical and Experimental Methods in Engineering Seismology by M. A. Biot (1943) (5)
Analysis of the Taft accelerogram of the earthquake of 21 July 1952 (1953) (5)
Dams and public safetyby Robert B. Janson, U.S. Department of Interior, 1980, 322 pp., $11.00 (1982) (5)
Tension Leg Platform: An Overview of the Concept, Analysis, and Design (1989) (5)
Earthquake-Resistant Regulations -- A World List. 1970 [Book Review] (1971) (5)
Current practice in the design of structures to resist earthquakes (1949) (5)
The Momentum-Balance Method in Earthquake Engineering (1966) (4)
Koyna earthquake of December 11, 1967: Report of the Expert Committee on electrical and mechanical equipment (1970) (4)
Analysis of ground motions at San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station April 9, 1968 (1970) (4)
A Dislocation theory of earthquakes (1953) (4)
Proceedings of the Second World Conference on Earthquake EngineeringTokyo, 1960 (Reprint, 1968), published by the Science Council of Japan (1968) (4)
Earthquake-resistant design of high-rise buildings (1973) (4)
Free Lateral Vibrations of Liquid Storage Tanks (1979) (3)
Introduction to earthquake engineering, Second Edition, Shunzo Okamoto. ISBN 0–86008‐361–6. University of Tokyo Press, 1984. 7–3‐1 Hongo, Bunkyo‐ku, Tokyo 113–91, Japan. No. of pages: 652. Price: US$74.50 (1985) (3)
A challenge to earthquake research (1978) (3)
Applied mechanics statics (1949) (3)
The Footprint of an Earthquake (1999) (3)
Proceedings of the 1st World Conference on Structural Control (1995) (3)
An engineering report on the Chilean earthquakes of May 1960: Preface (1963) (3)
Structural Vibrations Produced by Ground Motion (1957) (3)
Dynamic Interaction of Liquid Storage Tanks and Foundation Soil (2014) (3)
Introduction to Earthquake Engineering [Book Review] (1973) (3)
Reconstituted Earthquake Ground Motion at Anchorage (1973) (3)
Selected earthquake engineering papers of George W. Housner (1990) (3)
Preliminary report on the engineering aspects of the San Fernando, California, earthquake of February 9 1971 (1971) (3)
The Footprint of an Earthquake: opinion paper (1999) (2)
Opinion Paper: The Cost of a Life (1999) (2)
Opinion Paper Unexpected Stress Failures during Earthquakes (1997) (2)
Aseismic design and testing of nuclear facilities Technical reports series No. 88, international atomic energy agency, Vienna, 1968. $1.00 (1968) (2)
Seismic Events At Koyna Dam (1969) (2)
ANALYSIS AND TESTS OF SUSPENSION BRIDGE VIBRATIONS (1977) (2)
Report on The Great Alaska Earthquake of 1964: Engineering (1974) (2)
The tsunami of the Alaska earthquake, 1964: Engineering evaluation [Book Review] (1969) (2)
Natural Periods of Buildings (1990) (2)
State response to the Loma Prieta earthquake: Competing against time (1991) (2)
Earthquakes and Geological Discovery (1995) (2)
DEVELOPMENTS IN THE USA IN THE FIELD OF STRUCTRUAL CONTROL AND MONITORING OF CIVIL INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEMS (1999) (2)
Steel-Frame Buildings in Seismic Regions (1995) (2)
Earthquake-Resistant Regulations—A World List. 1970 (1971) (1)
Natural disaster reduction : proceedings of the conference (1997) (1)
Structural control research issues arising out of the Northridge and Kobe earthqakes (1996) (1)
Discussion of Lateral Forces of Earthquake and Wind by Arthur W. Anderson, John A. Blume, Henry J. Degenkolb, Harold B. Hammill, Edward M. Knapik, Henry L. Marchand, Henry C. Powers, John E. Rinne, George A. Sedgwick and Harold O. Sjoberg (1952) (1)
The Tehachapi Earthquake of July 21, 1952 (1952) (1)
George W. Housner (1990) (1)
Overview of Factors Involved in the Mexico Earthquakes (1987) (1)
Engineering for Earthquakes (1969) (1)
Design Essentials in Earthquake Resistant Buildings: Architectural Institute of Japan, Elzevier Publishing Company, New York, 1970, 295 pp. (in English). (1971) (1)
Introduction to Earthquake Engineering (1973) (1)
The Groundshock Problems of Earthquakes and Explosions (1961) (1)
VAR RIVER BRIDGE ATTACK, 26 MAY 1944 (1944) (0)
Vibration Compaction of Cohesive Soils (1954) (0)
Closure to “Behavior of Structures During Earthquakes” (1960) (0)
Earthquake‐resistant limit‐state design for buildings, by Hiroshi Akiyama, University of Tokyo Press, 1985. Distributed in the U.S. by Columbia University Press. No. of pages: 372. Price: $55 (1986) (0)
The March 4, 1977 earthquake in Romania, by Stefan Balan, Valeriu Cristescu and Ion Cornea, Coordinators; Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste Romania, Bucaresti, 1982. No. of pages: 516 (1983) (0)
Engineering seismology, by Kiyoshi Kanai, University of Tokyo Press, 1983. No. of pages: 251 (1983) (0)
Applied mechanics statics / by George W, Housner and Donald E, Hudson (1961) (0)
Aseismic design and testing of nuclear facilities [Book Review] (1968) (0)
Still in Infancy, Structural Control Grows in Importance after Northridge and Kobe Earthquakes (1995) (0)
The March 4, 1977 Earthquake in Romania (1983) (0)
Discussion of Dynamic Effects of Earthquakes by Ray W. Clough (1961) (0)
SPECI ' RUM INTENSITIES OF STRONG - (0)
Book reviews (1990) (0)
Discussion of "Relative Flexure Factors for Analyzing Continuous Structures" (1939) (0)
Romeo Raoul Martel, 1890-1965 (1965) (0)
Proceedings of the First World Conference on Structural Control edited by George W. Housner, Sami F. Masri, and A. G. Chaffiakos (1995) (0)
Earthquake engineering, S. F. Borg, John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, 1983. NO. of pages: 110. Price: Al1.50 or $2 1.75 (1985) (0)
GLOBAL OVERVIEW OF RESPONSE CONTROL (1993) (0)
Design Essentials in Earthquake Resistant Buildings (1971) (0)
Design Essentials in Earthquake Resistant Buildings [Book Review] (1971) (0)
RECOMMENDED SEISMIC DESIGN CRITERIA FOR HANFORD NUCLEAR FACILITY. (1972) (0)
Seismic events at koyna dam, Chapter 27 in rock mechanics theory and practice - 11th symposium on rock mechanics, berkeley, calif., 1969, proc (1970) (0)
Statement from iaee president (1972) (0)
10th World Earthquake Engineering Conference (1992) (0)
Workshop on Prospects for U.S.-P.R.C. Cooperation on Earthquake Engineering Research (1993) (0)
Obituary - Donald E. Hudson (1999) (0)
Industrialized Building in the Soviet Union (A Report of the U.S. Delegation to the USSR) (1972) (0)
Emeritus - Paul C. Jennings, PhD '63: Profile of an Everywhere Man (2002) (0)
Interview with George W. Housner (1989) (0)
The March 4, 1977 Earthquake in Romania [Book Review] (1983) (0)
Diablo Canyon safe (1984) (0)
Dams and public safety, by Robert B. Janson, U.S. department of interior, 1980. No. of pages: 322. Price: $11·00 (1982) (0)
EARTHQUAKE RESEARCH PROBLEMS OF NUCLEAR POWER GENERATORS (1963) (0)
Guest Editors' prefaces (2002) (0)
History of Xerox (1995) (0)
Preface (1991) (0)
THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA'S RESPONSE TO THE LOMA PRIETA EARTHQUAKE (1998) (0)
Aseismic Design Analysis of Buildings by Kiyoshi Muto; Maruzen Company, Ltd., Tokyo, 1974 xiv + 361 pp. $48.00 (1974) (0)
Proceedings of international workshop on structural control : Honolulu, Hawaii, 5-7 August, 1993 (1993) (0)
Further Studies on Vibration Compaction of Cohesive Soils (1955) (0)
Closure to “Housner and Keightley on Beam Vibrations” (1963) (0)
Closure of "Earthquake Research Needs for Nuclear Power Plants" (1972) (0)

This paper list is powered by the following services:

What Schools Are Affiliated With George William Housner?

George William Housner is affiliated with the following schools:

California Institute of Technology