This book is a collection of invited lectures including the 5th Nicholas Ambraseys distinguished lecture, four keynote lectures and twenty-two thematic lectures presented at the 16th European Conference on Earthquake Engineering, held in Thessaloniki, Greece, in June 2018. The lectures are put into chapters written by the most prominent internationally recognized academics, scientists, engineers and researchers in Europe. They address a comprehensive collection of state-of-the-art and cutting-ed...
Seismic Principles Practice Exams for the California Special Civil Engineer Examination
by Majid Baradar
On March 11, 2011, the largest earthquake ever recorded in Japan struck off the coast of the Tohoku region. This 9.0 magnitude earthquake induced shaking and tsunamis along more than 2000 km of Japanese coastline and damaged port and harbor facilities from metropolitan Tokyo to the northern extent of Honshu. In May 2011, the ASCE-COPRI Port and Harbor Facilities Field Survey Team worked closely with Japan's Ports and Airports Research Institute to conduct extensive field reconnaissance examinin...
Since the occurrence of earthquakes and their properties are very uncertain even with the present knowledge, it is too difficult to define reasonable design ground motions especially for important buildings. In the seismic resistant design of building structures, the concept of 'performance-based design' has become a new paradigm guaranteeing the maximum satisfaction of building owners. The quality and reliability of the performance-based design certainly depend on the scientific rationality o...
Seismology, Earthquake Engineering and Structural Engineering
Bridge Maintenance, Safety, Management and Life-Cycle Optimization (Bridge Maintenance, Safety and Management)
Bridge Maintenance, Safety, Management and Life-Cycle Optimization contains the lectures and papers presented at IABMAS 2010, the Fifth International Conference of the International Association for Bridge Maintenance and Safety (IABMAS), held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA from July 11 through 15, 2010.All major aspects of bridge maintenance, s
A Practical Approach to Metaheuristics using LabVIEW and MATLAB® (Chapman & Hall/CRC Computer and Information Science)
by Pedro Ponce-Cruz, Arturo Molina Gutierrez, Ricardo A. Ramirez-Mendoza, Efrain Mendez Flores, Alexandro Antonio Ortiz Espinoza, and David Christopher Balderas Silva
Metaheuristic optimization has become a prime alternative for solving complex optimization problems in several areas. Hence, practitioners and researchers have been paying extensive attention to those metaheuristic algorithms that are mainly based on natural phenomena. However, when those algorithms are implemented, there are not enough books that deal with theoretical and experimental problems in a friendly manner so this book presents a novel structure that includes a complete description of t...
Earthquake-Actuated Automatic Gas Shutoff Devices (25-16) (Standards ANSI/ASCE/SEI 25-16)
by American Society of Civil Engineers
Prepared by the Earthquake-Actuated Automatic Gas Shutoff Systems Standards Committee of the Codes and Standards Activities Division of the Structural Engineering Institute of ASCE. This standard provides current minimum functionality requirements for earthquake-actuated automatic gas shutoff devices. These devices contain both a means of sensing seismic activity and a way of shutting off the flow of gas. Applicable to systems carrying natural gas and propane, the devices are used in piping, eq...
This book is intended primarily as a textbook for students studying structural engineering. It covers three main areas in the analysis and design of structural systems subjected to seismic loading: basic seismology, basic structural dynamics, and code-based calculations used to determine seismic loads from an equivalent static method and a dynamics-based method. It provides students with the skills to determine seismic effects on structural systems, and is unique in that it combines the fundamen...
Structural Analysis and Design to Prevent Disproportionate Collapse
by Feng Fu
Hard Guidance on Preventing Disproportionate Collapse Disproportionate collapse is a pressing issue in current design practice. Numerous causes are possible – especially forms of extreme loading, such as blast, fire, earthquake, or vehicle collisions. But it is the mechanism and its prevention which are of especial interest and concern. After the World Trade Center collapse in 2001, interest was sparked, and it is now imperative for a design engineer to have sufficient knowledge on both the an...
Structural health monitoring is an extremely important methodology in evaluating the 'health' of a structure by assessing the level of deterioration and remaining service life of civil infrastructure systems. This book reviews key developments in research, technologies and applications in this area of civil engineering. It discusses ways of obtaining and analysing data, sensor technologies and methods of sensing changes in structural performance characteristics. It also discusses data transmissi...
This report summarizes the damage done to various lifelines from the 6.8 MW earthquake that occurred in the coastal waters off the Boumerdes Department, East of Algiers, Algeria, on May 21, 2003. An estimated 2,266 people were killed, 10,260 injured, and more than 200,000 left homeless. Many of the three- to five-story reinforced concrete apartment buildings, less than three years old, were destroyed by either total or partial collapse. Readers will benefit from the Lessons Learned sections, whi...
Evaluation Findings for Enidine, Inc., Viscous Damper (Civil Engineering Research Foundation Reports, HITEC 99-0)
Comprehensive Seismic Zonation Schemes for Regions at Different Scales
by T. G. Sitharam, Naveen James, and Sreevalsa Kolathayar
This book reviews and assesses the various methodologies for site characterization and site effect estimation to carry out seismic zonation at micro and macro levels. Readers will learn about the suitability of these methodologies for each level of zoning that needs to be assessed in order to optimize the resources for carrying out seismic zonation. The Indian sub-continent is highly vulnerable to earthquake hazards, and past studies have focused primarily on the Himalayan region (inter-plate zo...
Papers presented at the Seismic Hazards Workshop, held in Memphis, Tennessee, April 10, 2012. Sponsored by the Council on Disaster Risk Management of ASCE. Seismic Hazard Design Issues in the Central United States contains nine papers focusing on seismic design issues arising from the implementation of the new International Building Code and ASCE Standard 7-10 in the central United States and specifically in the New Madrid Seismic Zone. Topics include:deep soil site response in the Mississippi...
Nonlinear Dynamics of Structures Under Extreme Transient Loads
by Adnan Ibrahimbegovic and Naida Ademovic
The effect of combined extreme transient loadings on a structure is not well understood—whether the source is man-made, such as an explosion and fire, or natural, such as an earthquake or extreme wind loading. A critical assessment of current knowledge is timely (with Fukushima-like disasters or terrorist threats). The central issue in all these problems is structural integrity, along with their transient nature, their unexpectedness, and often the uncertainty behind their cause. No single trad...
This proceedings of the Fifth U.S. Conference on Lifeline Earthquake Engineering, held in Seattle, Washington, on August 12-14, 1999, presents new developments and emerging practices that will advance the state of knowledge of lifeline earthquake engineering around the world. It includes over 100 papers covering a broad range of topics including: transportation systems; seismic hazards; pipelines; transportation projects; seismic risk analysis; water and wastewater; small group presentations; tr...
Guidelines for Testing Large Seismic Isolator and Energy Dissipation Devices
by Peter W McDonough
This report outlines the HITEC Technical Evaluation Plan for large seismic isolator and energy dissipation devices. The plan is designed to characterize the fundamental properties and performance characteristics of a wide range of devices produced by U.S. and overseas manufacturers. It describes a program of full-scale dynamic tests, the results of which should provide guidance to the transportation-engineering community regarding the performance of large seismic devices.
Coastal Construction Manual Volume 1
by Federal Emergency Management Agency and U S Department of Homeland Security
Seismic Analysis and Design Using the Endurance Time Method, Volume II
by Homayoon Estekanchi and Hassan Vafai
Seismic Design of Buildings to Eurocode 8
Practical information and training has become urgently needed for the new Eurocode 8 on the Design of Structures for Earthquake Resistance, especially in relation to the underlying principles of seismic behaviour and the design of building structures.This book covers seismic design in a clear but brief manner and links the principles to the code, i