This book challenges reconstruction as a replica to physically preserve damaged built heritage by critically examining a context of constant change resulting from earthquakes Chile advocating for the digital record to be an analytical basis for de...Loe edasi...
Earthquake Engineering and Structural Control: Theory and Applications examines the basics of structural dynamics with its application for earthquake engineering and structural control methods....Loe edasi...
Pacific Northwest Coastal Environments: Earthquakes and Sea Level Rise investigates the potential impacts of changes in global sea level by examining historical sea and land levels, projected future levels, and by determining how those changes may a...Loe edasi...
This provides an engineers perspective on traditional construction methods for timber frames with infills, focusing on traditional paianta houses in Romania and minka houses in Japan to provide insights into the construction, seismic behavior, and d...Loe edasi...
Seismic Resilience Assessment of Hospital Infrastructure presents a suite of novel techniques developed by the authors and their team for seismic resilience assessment of hospital infrastructure, with particular emphasis on seismic tests and fragili...Loe edasi...
This covers seismic performance, deformation and failure mechanisms, good aseismic design, and effective damage assessment and restoration. It gives analytical solutions for longitudinal and transversal seismic deformation, along with performance-ba...Loe edasi...
Integrated earthquake simulation evaluates earthquake hazards and disasters by carrying out a sequence of numerical simulations of such aspects as earthquake wave generation and propagation, structural seismic response, mass evacuation, and economic...Loe edasi...
This work presents comprehensive analytical, computational, experimental investigations, and proposes improved design guidelines that structural engineers can utilize to enhance the seismic design of asymmetric building structures. It will be useful...Loe edasi...
This book addresses scientific and engineering aspects of earthquakes, which are generally taught and published on separately. This book intends to fill the gap between these two fields associated with earthquakes and help seismologists and earthqua...Loe edasi...
This book summarizes the most essential concepts that every engineer designing a new building or evaluating an existing structure should consider to control the damage caused by drift (deformation) induced by earthquakes....Loe edasi...
This connects basic earthquake engineering principles with practical structural design. It includes recent developments of RC structures and nonlinear analysis, structural intervention prior or post-earthquake, and now introduces seismic isolation a...Loe edasi...
This position paper deals with the seismic safety of large dams, based on experiences with large earthquakes in Japan, China and Chile. It presents ways to prevent key aspects of large dam failure under severe seismic conditions with a focus on desi...Loe edasi...
Design of Wind and Earthquake Resistant Reinforced Concrete Buildings explains wind and seismic design issues of RCC buildings in brief and provides design examples based on recommendations of latest IS codes essential for industrial design....Loe edasi...
The book provides an overview of the background to and details of earthquake hazard estimation in India in a very comprehensive manner with details on seismicity data management, seismicity analysis, seismic source characterization, seismic hazard e...Loe edasi...
This book describes the effects of post-earthquake fire on partially damaged buildings located in seismic urban regions. The book quantifies the level of associated post-earthquake fire effects, and discusses methods for mitigating the risk at both...Loe edasi...
This book introduces new smart connection systems which can be used in aseismic building design in order to control inter-story drifts and to reduce residual displacements. They are also utilized as damper devices and base isolators. The application...Loe edasi...
In this book, every detail of the slope stabilisation technique using recycled plastic pin, including the design techniques, construction methods and several case studies, are included....Loe edasi...
One of the main goals of a good and effective structural design is to decrease, as far as possible, the self-weight of structures, because they must carry the service load. It is shown in this book that a span of a spatial structure is practically i...Loe edasi...
An elegant, simple and theoretically coherent design framework. Students users will benefit from the coverage of seismology, structural dynamics, reinforced concrete members, and capacity design approaches, which allows the book to be used as a foun...Loe edasi...
A significant up-to-date collection of recent developments and advancements, case histories, field monitoring, experimental characterization, physical and analytical modelling, and applications related to the variety of environmental phenomena induc...Loe edasi...
Seismic isolation offers the highest degree of earthquake protection to buildings and their inhabitants. Modern applications of the technology are less than 50 years old and uptake in seismically active regions continues to soar. Seismic Isolation o...Loe edasi...
This book focusses on the contribution of vernacular architecture to risk mitigation in responding to earthquakes, and will appeal to scientists and professionals interested in structural engineering, vernacular architecture, earthquake engineering,...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-May-2014, Kirjastus: John Wiley & Sons Inc, ISBN-13: 9781118718070)
A comprehensive book focusing on the Force Analogy Method, a novel method for nonlinear dynamic analysis and simulation This book focusses on the Force Analogy Method, a novel method for nonlinear dynamic analysis and simulation....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Feb-2013, Kirjastus: ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons Inc, ISBN-13: 9781118603925)
It is clear that the majority of urban centers is composed of old buildings, designed according to the concepts and rules inadequate to seismic context. How to assess the vulnerability of existing buildings is an essential step to improve the manage...Loe edasi...
Describes important principles for dealing with the damping of structures to aid in the analysis and design of supplemental damping to mitigate seismic effects. This text also examines limitations and the problem of damping and stiffness nonlinearit...Loe edasi...
Widely used in civil, mechanical and automotive engineer-ing since the early 1980s, multilayer rubber bearings have been used as seismic isolation devices for buildings in highly seismic areas in many countries....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-Jun-2011, Kirjastus: Imperial College Press, ISBN-13: 9781848163997)
Covers solid continuum mechanics, finite element method and stochastic modeling comprehensively. This book explains the numerical simulation of strong ground motion and faulting. It details examples of applying computational science technology to ea...Loe edasi...
Developments in Earthquake Engineering have focused on the capacity and response of structures. They often overlook the importance of seismological knowledge to earthquake-proofing of design. This book focuses on the seismological aspects of design...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Sep-2009, Kirjastus: Imperial College Press, ISBN-13: 9781848163638)
Pile foundations are the most common form of deep foundations that used both onshore and offshore to transfer large superstructure loads into competent soil strata. This book provides many case histories of failure of pile foundations due to earthqu...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Jul-2009, Kirjastus: John Wiley & Sons Inc, ISBN-13: 9780470747018)
Earthquake Resistant Design and Risk Reduction, 2 nd edition is based upon global research and development work over the last 50 years or more, and follows the authors series of three books Earthquake Resistant Design , 1st and 2 nd editions (1...Loe edasi...
Presents the concepts, procedures, and code provisions that are used to make structures as earthquake-resistant as is feasible. This book describes the purpose, main aspects, and historical development of earthquake engineering and provides an overv...Loe edasi...
Shows how structural requirements for seismic resistance can become an integral part of the design process. Emphasizing design and discussing key concepts with accompanying visual material, this book offers architects the background knowledge and pr...Loe edasi...
Offering an accounting of smart structure systems, this book provides details on regulations, presents mathematical formulations, explores modeling, and discusses cost-efficiency and other practical considerations....Loe edasi...
