
Meeting rising needs: Seismic design standards for piers and wharves
A port in Ishinomaki Japan, was damaged after a tsunami hit in 2011. (Photograph courtesy of William Bruin) By Julie A. Galbraith, P.E., M.ASCE, and Marc I. Percher, P.E., M.ASCE The seismic design of piers and wharves has evolved from traditional elastic …