Overview
- Covers the seismic hazard, the basics of seismotectonics, and the fundamentals of earthquake engineering
- Meets the future professional needs of senior undergraduate students by explaining the principles of earthquake-resistant design
- Includes useful sample problems on earthquake-resistant design of frame and frame-shear wall systems
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book provides senior undergraduate students, master students and structural engineers who do not have a background in the field with core knowledge of structural earthquake engineering that will be invaluable in their professional lives. The basics of seismotectonics, including the causes, magnitude, and intensity of earthquakes, are first explained. Then the book introduces basic elements of seismic hazard analysis and presents the concept of a seismic hazard map for use in seismic design. Subsequent chapters cover key aspects of the response analysis of simple systems and building structures to earthquake ground motions, design spectrum, the adoption of seismic analysis procedures in seismic design codes, seismic design principles and seismic design of reinforced concrete structures. Helpful worked examples on seismic analysis of linear, nonlinear and base isolated buildings, earthquake-resistant design of frame and frame-shear wall systems are included, most of which can be solved using a hand calculator.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Sinan Akkar is professor of Civil Engineering at the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey and also a member of teaching staff on the earthquake engineering program at Pavia University, Rose School, Italy. His main research interests are displacement-based seismic assessment and prediction of strong ground-motion parameters for seismic design. Professor Akkar is currently the Principal Investigator of the Turkish National Strong Motion Project and the NATO Project Director of the Harmonization of Seismic Hazard Maps for the Western Balkan Countries. He is involved in the Seismic Harmonization in Europe project (SHARE, EC-FP7) as a research member.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Basic Earthquake Engineering
Book Subtitle: From Seismology to Analysis and Design
Authors: Halûk Sucuoğlu, Sinan Akkar
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01026-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-01025-0Published: 20 May 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-01026-7Published: 09 May 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 288
Number of Illustrations: 222 b/w illustrations, 23 illustrations in colour
Topics: Geoengineering, Foundations, Hydraulics, Solid Mechanics, Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences, Engineering Design, Vibration, Dynamical Systems, Control