ABSTRACT

A unified presentation of engineering seismology and earthquake-resistant design, this book presents a wide ranging coverage of the whole subject of earthquake engineering so that the reader is given a clear appreciation of earthquakes before dealing with their effects on structures. In addition, newer mathematical modelling techniques are introduc

part |2 pages

Part One: General Overview and Fundamentals

chapter 1|6 pages

General Overview

chapter 2|17 pages

Related fundamentals of seismology

chapter 3|17 pages

Related fundamentals of random vibration

part |2 pages

Part Two: Engineering Seismology

chapter 4|16 pages

Earthquake damage and intensity

chapter 5|40 pages

Earthquake ground motion

chapter 6|16 pages

Earthquakes in China

chapter 7|19 pages

Earthquakes in the USA

chapter 8|7 pages

Earthquakes in Japan

part |2 pages

Part Three: Theory of Earthquake Response of Structures

part |2 pages

Part Four: Seismic Considerations in Structural Engineering

chapter 13|38 pages

Principles of seismic design of structures

chapter 14|26 pages

Seismic design codes

part |2 pages

Part Five: New Analytical Tools in Earthquake Engineering

chapter 15|18 pages

Stochastic methods

chapter 16|26 pages

Fuzzy set theory and applications