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CONCLUSIONS
Upon discussing demands on conducting seismic nsk management and disaster mitigation for
metropolis, this paper depicts challenges faced by earthquake engineering professionals for helping
solving economic and social problems. To meet this multidisciplinary task, the paper presents a
perspective of solutions with a distributed application platform based on the Internet and VR
technology. As a first step towards this platform, simple implementations with VR have also been
demonstrated. Good results are obtained on promoting seismic response presentations using VRML.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Thanks are given to Ali Alaghehbandian, a master student at Dept. of Civil Engineering, Univ. of
Tokyo, for his work (Fig. 7) of VRML authoring.
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