ABSTRACT
The costs of inadequate earthquake engineering are huge, especially for reinforced concrete buildings. This book presents the principles of earthquake-resistant structural engineering, and uses the latest tools and techniques to give practical design guidance to address single or multiple seismic performance levels.
It presents an elegant, simple and theoretically coherent design framework. Required strength is determined on the basis of an estimated yield displacement and desired limits of system ductility and drift demands. A simple deterministic approach is presented along with its elaboration into a probabilistic treatment that allows for design to limit annual probabilities of failure. The design method allows the seismic force resisting system to be designed on the basis of elastic analysis results, while nonlinear analysis is used for performance verification. Detailing requirements of ACI 318 and Eurocode 8 are presented. Students will benefit from the coverage of seismology, structural dynamics, reinforced concrete, and capacity design approaches, which allows the book to be used as a foundation text in earthquake engineering.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part Section I|8 pages
Introduction
part Section II|156 pages
Seismic Demands
part Section III|154 pages
Essential Concepts of Earthquake-Resistant Design
part Section IV|112 pages
Reinforced Concrete Systems
chapter Chapter 16|18 pages
Component proportioning and design requirements according to Eurocodes 2 and 8
part Section V|116 pages
Design methods and examples