Rijeka: Intech, 2015. — 409 p. — ISBN10: 978-953-51-2039-5; ISBN13: 978-953-51-2039-1. The book "Earthquake engineering: from engineering seismology to optimal seismic design of engineering structures" contains fifteen chapters written by researchers and experts in the fields of earthquake and structural engineering. This book provides the state-of-the-art on recent progress in...
Springer, 2016. — 499 p. — ISBN10: 3319252690. — ISBN13: 978-3319252698, English This book aims to serve as an essential reference to facilitate civil engineers involved in the design of new conventional (ordinary) reinforced concrete (R/C) buildings regulated by the current European EC8 (EN 1998-1:2004) and EC2 (EN 1992-1-1:2004) codes of practice. The book provides unique...
Springer, 2016. — 499 p. — ISBN10: 3319252690. — ISBN13: 978-3319252698 This book aims to serve as an essential reference to facilitate civil engineers involved in the design of new conventional (ordinary) reinforced concrete (R/C) buildings regulated by the current European EC8 (EN 1998-1:2004) and EC2 (EN 1992-1-1:2004) codes of practice. The book provides unique step-by-step...
Springer, 2011. — 739 p. — ISBN: 3540938176. This concise work provides a general introduction to the design of buildings which must be resistant to the effect of earthquakes. A major part of this design involves the building structure which has a primary role in preventing serious damage or structural collapse. Much of the material presented in this book examines building...
Springer, 2006. — 784 p. Many nations have become victims of terrorism. Bombs have exploded in and around buildings and other structures. Such events have generated considerable concern over the ability of countries and governments to protect installations and their occupants against a potential threat of terrorism. Many countries have established defence agencies and research...
Woodhead Publishing Limited and CRC Press, 2009, 260 p. Glass is increasingly being used as a structural material in new buildings. The structural envelope may consist either entirely or partially of glass, and this trend to eschew traditional materials such as brick and concrete for steel-framed, glass clad buildings presents inherent problems. A major issue is the performance...
Portland Cement Association, Skokie, Illinois, 1992, 318 p. This volume gave earthquake-resistant design of multistory reinforced concrete buildings more of a scientific basis than it ever had before. Available experimental information was compiled on the behavior of reinforced concrete members under reversed cyclic loading. The inelastic deformability and energy-absorbing...
3rd edition. – London: ICE Publishing, 2014. XX, 347 p. — ISBN: 978-0-7277-5794-4. Earthquake Design Practice for Buildings, 3rd edition provides comprehensive, practical and easy to read advice for all engineers, designers and analysts of earthquake resistant structures. This new edition has been completely revised to account for the many developments that had taken place...
CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, Boca Raton, FL, 2010, 258 p., ISBN: 978-1-4398-0914-3 Tools to Safeguard New Buildings and Assess Existing Ones Nonlinear analysis methods such as static pushover are globally considered a reliable tool for seismic and structural assessment. But the accuracy of seismic capacity estimates — which can prevent catastrophic loss of life and...
Architectural Press is an imprint of Elsevier. First edition 2008. 296 p. Earthquakes and ground shaking How buildings resist earthquakes Seismic design approaches Horizontal structure Vertical structure Seismic design and architecture Foundations Horizontal configuration Vertical configuration Non-structural elements: those likely to cause structural damage Other...
CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 2008. — 672 p. — ISBN: 0849385326. counteracting potentially devastating force, thus limiting structural collapse and subsequent injury. As this technology rapidly evolves, there is an ever-increasing need for an authoritative reference that will allow those in the field to stay abreast of the very latest advances. Smart Structures: Innovative Systems...
Editors: Cruz, H., Saporiti Machado, J., Campos Costa, A., Xavier Candeias, P., Ruggieri, N., Manuel Catarino, J. — Springer, 2016. — 468 p. Examines the historical use of seismic-resistant timber frames in Mediterranean countries. This book presents a selection of the best papers from the HEaRT 2015 conference, held in Lisbon, Portugal, which provided a valuable forum for...
Wiley, 2010. — 472 p. While numerous books have been written on earthquakes, earthquake resistance design, and seismic analysis and design of structures, none have been tailored for advanced students and practitioners, and those who would like to have most of the important aspects of seismic analysis in one place. With this book, readers will gain proficiencies in the...
2nd edition. — Wiley, 2009. — 530 p. — ISBN: 0470778156. Earthquake Resistant Design and Risk Reduction, 2nd edition is based upon global research and development work over the last 50 years or more, and follows the author’s series of three books Earthquake Resistant Design, 1st and 2nd editions (1977 and 1987), and Earthquake Risk Reduction (2003). Many advances have been made...
John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2003. – 513 p. Earthquake risk reduction The nature of earthquakes Determination of site characteristics Seismic hazard assessment Seismic response of soils and structures Earthquake vulnerability of the built environment Earthquake risk modeling and management The design and construction process — choice of form and materials Seismic design of...
Wiley, 2010. — 484 p. Unique single reference supports functional and cost-efficient designs of blast resistant buildings Now there's a single reference to which architects, designers, and engineers can turn for guidance on all the key elements of the design of blast resistant buildings that satisfy the new ASCE Standard for Blast Protection of Buildings as well as other ASCE,...
John Wiley & Sons Ltd, The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, 2008. - 374 p. — ISBN: 0470024836. Fundamentals of Earthquake Engineering combines aspects of engineering seismology, structural and geotechnical earthquake engineering to assemble the vital components required for a deep understanding of response of structures to earthquake ground motion, from the seismic source to...
Wiley, Hoboken, New Jersey, 2003, 834 p., ISBN: 0-471-08122-1 Seismic Design of Reinforced and Precast Concrete Buildings explores a comprehensive body of experimentally developed conclusions, extending this base to design-relevant relationships and limit states that are reduced to usable forms. This powerful reference tool is packed with broad-ranging material?from fundamental...
Wiley, 2007, 428 p. Learn to design code-compliant, earthquake-resistant structures with this practical guide Earthquake Engineering demonstrates how to design structural members and joints for seismic resistance. The text guides readers through dozens of structural designs, documenting how to perform each step, make the necessary calculations, and adhere to relevant design...
CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 2015, 392 p., ISBN: 9781466559745, 9781482282535, 1482282534 Presents information written by four key engineers heavily involved in the development of the part of EN-Eurocode 8 on concrete buildings and their foundations Offers the only textbook-style presentation on the application of Eurocode 8 for the seismic design of concrete buildings and their...
Springer, 2009. — 743 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4020-9841-3. The goal of the book is to present and explain the state of the art of design or retrofitting concrete buildings for earthquake resistance. To serve this goal, it also covers behaviour of concrete members under cyclic loading and seismic response of concrete buildings, as well as their modeling. Its main focus is the European...
Springer, 2009. — 743 p., 130 ill. — ISBN: 978-1-4020-9842-0. Provides a combination of general principles and guidance with the provisions of EN-Eurocode 8 and includes design examples. Although there are a few books in the European or US market on seismic design of buildings, seismic design, assessment and retrofitting is not covered. Timely, in view of the introduction and...
CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 2014, 487 p., ISBN: 978-0-203-84888-3, 978-0-415-24263-9 References the main research investigations coming from the lessons learned after the main tragic earthquakes of the last decades (from Northridge, 1994 to Tohoku, 2011) Illustrates seismic resistant steel structures in many applications around the world; showing that good design principles lead...
Springer Japan, 2014. — 328 p. — ISBN: 4431548912. Earthquake and tsunami disasters have been increasing rapidly and globally in the last quarter-century. The purpose of this book is to provide essential knowledge and information on the mitigation of earthquakes and tsunamis for graduate students, young researchers, and geotechnical engineers. It begins by presenting recent...
Springer, 2019. — 415 p. — ISBN: 978-981-13-3277-7. This book gathers 23 papers by top experts from 11 countries, presented at the 3rd Houston International Forum: Concrete Structures in Earthquake. Designing infrastructures to resist earthquakes has always been the focus and mission of scientists and engineers located in tectonically active regions, especially around the...
CRC Press/Balkema, Leiden,The Netherlands, 2016, 404 p., ISBN: 1138027782, 978-1-138-02778-7 The major fields referred to in this book are architectural engineering, civil engineering, building construction, and structural engineering. The manuscript complies with the current design code. The author intends to write this book that can be utilized as technical teaching aids for...
Springer Science+Business Media, Dordrecht, 2016, 119 p., ISBN: 978-94-017-7296-9, 978-94-017-7297-6 Solid Mechanics and Its Applications 222 This book aims at detailed analysis and structural design of high rise buildings with real-life examples. The knowledge of design of high buildings for gravity and seismic loading is highly essential for upcoming engineers to work in the...
Butterworth-Heinemann, 2018. — 208 p. — ISBN: 978-0-12-812975-3. Provides a new method for analysing collapse behaviours of buildings under various scenarios, such as impact, fire, blast demolition, earthquake, and tsunami. The analysis of the vulnerability of buildings against progressive collapse is a challenging task. Progressive Collapse of Structures: Numerical Codes and...
CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 2016, 202 p., ISBN: 9781498705370, 1498705375, 978-1-4987-0536-3 Seismic waves are nonlinear bulk and surface elastic waves that propagate in the nonlinear, dissipative, dispersive, and heterogeneous medium of the Earth’s body and on its surface. Earthquakes cause deaths and destructions all around the world. The main strategy for fi ghting the...
Alta Grafico A.E., 2008. — 291 p. Nowadays, the dissemination of science and the advancements in the material science and technology as well as in the computing and software technology, enable us to face earthquakes with prudence but without fear. We have to modify our architecture in order to enhance the earthquake resistant capacity of the constructions the same way we have...
Alta Grafico A.E., 2008. — 291 p. Nowadays, the dissemination of science and the advancements in the material science and technology as well as in the computing and software technology, enable us to face earthquakes with prudence but without fear. We have to modify our architecture in order to enhance the earthquake resistant capacity of the constructions the same way we have...
Springer Science+Business Media, Dordrecht, 2013, 374 p., ISBN: 978-94-007-5376-1, 978-94-007-5377-8 Geotechnical, Geological and Earthquake Engineering 24 Real structures are almost always irregular as perfect regularity is an idealization that very rarely occurs. Structural irregularities may vary dramatically in their nature, and, in principle, the concept of irregularity is...
Springer, New Delhi, India, 2015, 450 p., ISBN: 978-81-322-2318-4, 978-81-322-2319-1 Springer Transactions in Civil and Environmental Engineering This book deals with the design and detailing requirements for seismic resistance of new buildings. The normal design of buildings is well understood. Hence, this book focuses only on seismic engineering aspects of the design process....
Oxford: Architectural Press, 2003. — 256 p. We have all suffered from minor disasters, such as breaking a beautiful vase – or possibly a major disaster such as a motor accident, but this book deals with a wide variety of natural and man-made disasters. We don’t like to think of disasters, hoping that they won’t happen in our lifetime. This book is, however, a useful reminder....
2nd Edition. — Routledge, 2018. — 604 p. The second edition of this authoritative textbook equips students with the tools they will need to tackle the challenges of sustainable building design and engineering. The book looks at how to design, engineer and monitor energy efficient buildings, how to adapt buildings to climate change, and how to make buildings healthy, comfortable...
New York: Wiley, 1999. — 289 p. — ISBN: 0471149217. Complete, practical coverage of the evaluation, analysis, and design and code requirements of seismic isolation systems.Based on the concept of reducing seismic demand rather than increasing the earthquake resistance capacity of structures, seismic isolation is a surprisingly simple approach to earthquake protection. However,...
EERI, 1982. — 103 p. This monograph by N. M. Newmark and W. J. Hall on earthquake resistant design considerations is the third in a projected series of monographs on different aspects of earthquake engineering. The purpose of this monograph is to describe briefly some of the concepts and procedures underlying modern earthquake engineering, especially as it applies to building...
Wiley, 1992. — 768 p. — ISBN: 978-0-471-54915-4. Emphasizes actual structural design, not analysis, of multistory buildings for seismic resistance. Strong emphasis is placed on specific detailing requirements for construction. Fundamental design principles are presented to create buildings that respond to a wide range of potential seismic forces, which are illustrated by...
Taylor & Francis,1997. — 607 p. — ISBN: 0-419-18720-0. An English edition of a successful Greek textbook on earthquake resistant concrete structures, this work provides an introduction to the subject for professional engineers, researchers and advanced students. Elements of engineering seismology Elements of structural dynamics Design principles and design seismic actions...
CRC Press, 2014. — 876 p. — ISBN13: 978-0415537636. This book is addressed primarily to postgraduate students in earthquake engineering and to practicing structural engineers specialising in the design of R/C seismic-resistant buildings.
Prepared by ASCE Technical Committee on Composite Construction; edited by Sherif El-Tawil [et al.]. — American Society of Civil Engineers, 2010. — 80 p. — ISBN: 978-0-7844-1060-8. After approximately four decades of construction history and about fifteen years of extensive experimental and computational research activity, existing design guidelines for HCW systems are still...
John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2009. — 407 p. — ISBN: 978-0-470-01755-5. Since ancient times, earthquakes have taken a heavy toll on human life and property, made worse on a psychological level by the unexpected nature of the event. Mitigation of the damage caused by earthquakes is a prime requirement in many parts of the world today. As part of the design process, assessment of...
John Wiley & Sons (Asia) Pte., 2009. — 311 p. — ISBN10: 0470824913, ISBN13: 978-0470824917. The recent introduction of active and passive structural control methods has given structural designers powerful tools for performance-based design. However, structural engineers often lack the tools for the optimal selection and placement of such systems. In Building Control with...
Springer, 2006, 572 p. Earthquakes affecting urban areas can lead to catastrophic situations and hazard mitigation requires preparatory measures at all levels. Structural assessment is the diagnosis of the seismic health of buildings. Assessment is the prelude to decisions about rehabilitation or even demolition. The scale of the problem in dense urban settings brings about a...
This book has been written to assist candidates preparing for the seismic principles examinations. It is a comprehensive guide and reference for self study based on the 1997 edition of the Uniform Building Code. An introductory chapter describes the California Special Civil Engineer and Structural Engineer Exams and the NCEES Structural Examinations. Subsequent chapters cover...
Taylor & Francis Group, LLC 2016. — 452 p. ISBN13: 978-1-4987-3392-2 (eBook - PDF) Successfully Measure the Benefits of Green Design and Construction. Sustainability in Engineering Design and Construction outlines the sustainable practices used in engineering design and construction operations for all types of engineering and construction projects. Aimed at ushering the...
Butterworth-Heinemann, 2019. — 474 p. — ISBN: 978-0-08-102534-5. This book provides insights on the problems associated with the seismic retrofitting of existing structures. The authors present various international case studies of seismic retrofitting projects and the different possible strategies on how to handle complex problems encountered. Users will find tactics on a...
Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, 2016, 346 p., ISBN: 978-3-319-14245-6 Structural regularity was a logical preference for traditional civil engineering design when the hand, static calculations motivated early researchers to simplify structural models. What is more, application of the simplified separate, planar models of the actual three-dimensional structures...
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