Overview
- Provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the fields of Earthquake Engineering, Dynamics of Structures, Seismology and Seismic Design
- Emphasizes the application of energy methods and the analysis in the frequency domain with corresponding visualization in the Gauss-Argant plan
- Illustrates the applications of numerical methods for the solution of the equation of motion and to the ground motion selection to be used in time history analysis of structures
- Provides unique software for ground motion selection and processing that can be used by professionals to select the correct earthquake records that would run in the nonlinear analysis
- Introduces new topics in the field such as the Neodeterministic method in simplified terms
Part of the book series: Geotechnical, Geological and Earthquake Engineering (GGEE, volume 45)
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Table of contents (21 chapters)
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Dynamics of Structures
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Introduction to Earthquake Engineering
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Seismic Design of Buildings
Keywords
- Dynamics of Structures textbook
- Earthquake Engineering textbook
- Ground Motion Selection
- Passive Systems
- Infill Walls
- Earthquake prediction methods
- Ground motion processing
- seismic retrofit systems
- structural dynamics
- Neodeterministic method
- energy method in frequency domain
- Frequency domain modal analysis
- Seismic input
- quality control, reliability, safety and risk
About this book
The book contains clear illustrations and figures to describe the subjectin an intuitive way. It uses simple language and terminology and the math is limited only to cases where it is essential to understand the physical meaning of the system.
Therefore, it is suitable also for those readers who approach these subjects for the first time and who only have a basic understanding of mathematics (linear algebra) and static analysis of structures.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Gian Paolo Cimellaro is currently Associate Professor at the Politecnico di Torino. He has been recently Visiting Professor at the University of California Berkeley (2014-2016). He obtained his M.S. (2005) and Ph.D. (2008) from the University at Buffalo (SUNY) in USA. Graduated cum laude in Civil Engineering, University of Rome La Sapienza (2001). He is the Chair of the ASCE Committee on “Disaster Resilience of Structures, Infrastructures and Communities” in USA. In 2011, he has received the Fib Achievement Award for Young Engineers, sponsored by fib - the international federation for structural concrete. In 2015, he has received the Seed Grant Award from the Siebel Energy Institute of UC Berkeley. Prof. Cimellaro current research interests address earthquake engineering with emphasis to community resilience to natural disasters such as earthquakes. He has been awarded a grant of 1.3 M € by the European Research Council for the research project "IDEAL RESCUE: Integrated Design and control of sustainable communities During emergencies" ERC-2014-StG (2015-2019). This is the most prestigious prize assigned in Europe to researchers, performing high-risk and high-gain ground-breaking research.
Sebastiano Marasco is currently Ph.D. student at the Politecnico di Torino (Italy). He received his master degree in Civil Engineering from the Politecnico di Torino in 2014. His thesis focused on the signal processing of earthquake records and he has implemented a software called Opensignal for earthquake record processing and selection adopted in both practice and academic field. His expertise is in the advanced software programming, in the seismic design of reinforced concrete buildings and in the F.E.M. analysis. His research under the supervision of Professor Gian Paolo Cimellaro is focused on the assessment of resilience in a urban environment. This research is part of project IDEal reSCUE founded by the European Research Council. As a part ofthis research, he has collected the building’s data within a virtual city and developed an algorithm for estimating the capacity of each building under a seismic event.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Introduction to Dynamics of Structures and Earthquake Engineering
Authors: Gian Paolo Cimellaro, Sebastiano Marasco
Series Title: Geotechnical, Geological and Earthquake Engineering
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72541-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-72540-6Published: 10 April 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-10223-4Published: 25 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-72541-3Published: 26 March 2018
Series ISSN: 1573-6059
Series E-ISSN: 1872-4671
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 598
Number of Illustrations: 361 b/w illustrations, 191 illustrations in colour
Topics: Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences, Civil Engineering, Vibration, Dynamical Systems, Control, Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk