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Improving the Earthquake Resilience of Buildings pp 151–175Cite as

Use of Deterministic and Probabilistic Measures to Identify Unfavorable Earthquake Records

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The robust design of structures toward earthquake loads is the key for the mitigation of the structure damage against earthquake hazards. The structural engineer aims to design structures that are safe against possible future earthquakes and economic at the same time. The selection of suitable design earthquake loads for structural design is the first step to achieve this goal. The use of accurate nonlinear model describing the inelastic behavior of the structure is the second step to achieve this goal. Earthquake loads can be specified for seismic design of structures using the response spectrum method, using recorded accelerograms, or using the random vibration theory. The method of the critical excitation has been developed in the literature for specifying mathematical earthquake loads on structures.

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  1. Department of Architecture and Architectural Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyotodaigaku-Katsura, Kyoto, 615-8540, Japan

    Izuru Takewaki & Kohei Fujita

  2. Department of Civil Engineering, Minia University, Minia, 61111, Egypt

    Abbas Moustafa

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Takewaki, I., Moustafa, A., Fujita, K. (2013). Use of Deterministic and Probabilistic Measures to Identify Unfavorable Earthquake Records. In: Improving the Earthquake Resilience of Buildings. Springer Series in Reliability Engineering. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4144-0_8

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