Fundamentals of earthquake engineering / / Amr S. Elnashai and Luigi Di Sarno ; with the contribution by Oh-Sung Kwon

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910460804603321
• Autore: Elnashai Amr S.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: West Sussex, England : , : Wiley, , 2015; ©2015
• ISBN: 1-118-70047-3; 1-118-70046-5
• Edizione: [Second edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (496 p.)
• Disciplina: 363.3495
• Soggetti: Earthquake engineering - United States; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; List of Abbreviations; List of Symbols; Chapter 1 Earthquake Characteristics; 1.1 Causes of Earthquakes; 1.1.1 Plate Tectonics Theory; 1.1.2 Faulting; 1.1.3 Seismic Waves; 1.2 Measuring Earthquakes; 1.2.1 Intensity; 1.2.2 Magnitude; 1.2.3 Intensity-Magnitude Relationships; 1.3 Source-to-Site Effects; 1.3.1 Directional Effects; 1.3.2 Site Effects; 1.3.3 Dispersion and Incoherence; 1.4 Effects of Earthquakes; 1.4.1 Damage to Buildings and Lifelines; 1.4.2 Effects on the Ground; 1.4.2.1 Surface Rupture; 1.4.2.2 Settlement and Uplift1.4.2.3 Liquefaction; 1.4.2.4 Landslides; 1.4.3 Human and Financial Losses; References; Chapter 2 Response of Structures; 2.1 General; 2.2 Conceptual Framework; 2.2.1 Definitions; 2.2.2 Strength- versus Ductility-Based Response; 2.2.3 Member- versus System-Level Consideration; 2.2.4 Nature of Seismic Effects; 2.2.5 Fundamental Response Quantities; 2.2.6 Social and Economic Limit States; 2.3 Structural Response Characteristics; 2.3.1 Stiffness; 2.3.1.1 Factors Influencing Stiffness; 2.3.1.2 Effects on Action and Deformation Distributions; 2.3.1.3 Non-structural Damage Control2.3.2 Strength; 2.3.2.1 Factors Influencing Strength; 2.3.2.2 Effects on Load Path; 2.3.2.3 Structural Damage Control; 2.3.3 Ductility; 2.3.3.1 Factors Influencing Ductility; ; 2.3.3.2 Effects on Action Redistribution; 2.3.3.3 Structural Collapse Prevention; 2.3.4 Overstrength; 2.3.5 Damping; 2.3.6 Relationship between Strength, Overstrength and Ductility: Force Reduction Factor 'Supply'; References; Chapter 3 Earthquake Input Motion; 3.1 General; 3.2 Earthquake Occurrence and Return Period; 3.3 Ground-Motion Models (Attenuation Relationships); 3.3.1 Features of Strong-Motion Data for Attenuation Relationships3.3.2 Attenuation Relationship for Europe; 3.3.3 Attenuation Relationship for Japan; 3.3.4 Attenuation Relationships for North America; 3.3.4.1 Central and Eastern United States; 3.3.4.2 Western North America; 3.3.5 Worldwide Attenuation Relationships; 3.4 Earthquake Spectra; 3.4.1 Factors Influencing Response Spectra; 3.4.2 Elastic and Inelastic Spectra; 3.4.3 Simplified Spectra; 3.4.3.1 Spectra from Attenuation Relationships; 3.4.3.2 Spectra from Ground-Motion Parameters; 3.4.4 Force Reduction Factors (Demand); 3.4.4.1 Newmark and Hall (1982)3.4.4.2 Krawinkler and Nassar (1992); 3.4.4.3 Miranda and Bertero (1994); 3.4.4.4 Vidic et al. (1994); 3.4.4.5 Borzi and Elnashai (2000); 3.4.4.6 Comparison between Response Modification Factor Models; 3.4.5 Design Spectra; 3.4.6 Vertical Component of Ground Motion; 3.4.7 Vertical Motion Spectra; 3.5 Earthquake Records; 3.5.1 Natural Records; 3.5.1.1 Regional Differences; 3.5.1.2 Selection Criteria; 3.5.2 Artificial Records; 3.5.3 Records Based on Mathematical Formulations; 3.5.4 Scaling of Earthquake Records; 3.5.4.1 Scaling Based on Peak Ground Parameters; 3.5.4.2 Scaling Based on Spectrum Intensity
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