Damage-based earthquake engineering / Pierre Ghisbain.

Includes bibliographical references.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 26, 2015).

Cover; Damage-based Earthquake Engineering; Copyright page; Table of contents; Foreword; Preface; 1. Damage assessment method; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Probabilistic framework; 1.3 Procedure; 1.4 Strategy for validation and applicaiton; 2. Method properties; 2.1 Ground motion; 2.2 Fragility; 2.3 Damage calculation; 2.4 Hazard; 2.5 Summary and conclusions; 3. Incremental response analysis; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Nonlinear direct integration; 3.3 Linear direct integration; 3.4 Mode superposition; 3.5 Spectral combination; 3.6 Summary and conclusions; 4. Nonlinearities; 4.1 Introduction.

4.2 Sources and propagation4.3 Sensitivity to model parameters; 4.4 Sensitivity to structural properties; 4.5 Summary and conclusions; 5. Application to damping optimization; 5.1 Viscous damping design; 5.2 Solution strategy; 5.3 Cost and constraints modeling; 5.4 Illustration; 5.5 Summary and conclusions; Appendix A: Modal properties of benchmark structures; Appendix B: Earthquake records; Appendix C: Damage assessment results; References.

Over the life of a structure, smaller but more frequent earthquakes contribute more to the cumulative damage than larger earthquakes on which structural design is traditionally based. The included case studies show that the optimal solutions support a shift toward more resilient structures designed beyond the traditional life-safety requirements.

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