Advances in Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering

✍ Scribed by Ezio Faccioli, Manuela Villani, Manuela Vanini, Carlo Cauzzi (auth.), Michael N. Fardis (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 507
• Series: Geotechnical, Geological and Earthquake Engineering 13
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

<P>Performance-based Earthquake Engineering has emerged before the turn of the century as the most important development in the field of Earthquake Engineering during the last three decades. It has since then started penetrating codes and standards on seismic assessment and retrofitting and making headway towards seismic design standards for new structures as well. The US have been a leader in Performance-based Earthquake Engineering, but also Europe is a major contributor. Two Workshops on Performance-based Earthquake Engineering, held in Bled (Slovenia) in 1997 and 2004 are considered as milestones. The ACES Workshop in Corfu (Greece) of July 2009 builds on them, attracting as contributors world-leaders in Performance-based Earthquake Engineering from North America, Europe and the Pacific rim (Japan, New Zealand, Taiwan, China). It covers the entire scope of Performance-based Earthquake Engineering: Ground motions for performance-based earthquake engineering; Methodologies for Performance-based seismic design and retrofitting; Implementation of Performance-based seismic design and retrofitting; and Advanced seismic testing for performance-based earthquake engineering.

Audience: This volume will be of interest to scientists and advanced practitioners in structural earthquake engineering, geotechnical earthquake engineering, engineering seismology, and experimental dynamics.</P>

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xx
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Mapping Seismic Hazard for the Needs of Displacement-Based Design: The Case of Italy....Pages 3-14
Some Examples of 1D, Fully Stochastic Site Response Analyses of Soil Deposits....Pages 15-26
Evaluation of the Coherence of Strong Ground Motions Using Wavelet Analysis....Pages 27-38
Real, Scaled, Adjusted and Artificial Records: A Displacement and Cyclic Response Assessment....Pages 39-47
Theoretical Consistency of Common Record Selection Strategies in Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering....Pages 49-58
Long-Period Earthquake Ground Motion: Recent Advances and Observations from the April 6 2009, M w 6.3 L’Aquila Earthquake, Italy....Pages 59-68
Uncertainty in Nonlinear SDoF Response Due to Long-Period Noise of Accelerograms....Pages 69-78
Are Current Design Spectra Sufficient for Soil-Structure Systems on Soft Soils?....Pages 79-87
Elastic Demand Spectra....Pages 89-99
Front Matter....Pages 101-101
A Dynamic Macro-Element for Performance-Based Design of Foundations....Pages 103-112
New Concept on Fail-Safe Design of Foundation Structure Systems Insensitive to Extreme Motions....Pages 113-124
Performance-Based Seismic Design of Tall Buildings in the Western United States....Pages 125-135
Introduction to a Model Code for Displacement-Based Seismic Design....Pages 137-148
A Performance-Based Seismic Design Procedure for 3D R/C Buildings, Explicitly Accounting for Deformation Control....Pages 149-159
A New Seismic Design Method for Steel Structures....Pages 161-171
Significance of Modeling Deterioration in Structural Components for Predicting the Collapse Potential of Structures Under Earthquake Excitations....Pages 173-181
Enhanced Building-Specific Seismic Performance Assessment....Pages 183-191
A Damage Spectrum for Performance-Based Design....Pages 193-201
Construction of Response Spectra for Inelastic Asymmetric-Plan Structures....Pages 203-211
Multi-Mode Pushover Analysis with Generalized Force Vectors....Pages 213-223
Front Matter....Pages 101-101
A Practice-Oriented Approach for Probabilistic Seismic Assessment of Building Structures....Pages 225-233
Direct Probability-Based Seismic Design of RC Buildings....Pages 235-244
Probabilistic Models for Visual Damage....Pages 245-254
Front Matter....Pages 255-255
Dual Flexural Plastic Hinge Design for Reducing Higher-Mode Effects on High-Rise Cantilever Wall Buildings....Pages 257-266
High Seismic Performance Systems for Steel Structures....Pages 267-275
Performance-Based Seismic Design and Experimental Evaluation of Steel MRFs with Compressed Elastomer Dampers....Pages 277-286
Performance-Based Design of Self-Centering Steel Frame Systems....Pages 287-296
Damage-Control Self-Centering Structures: From Laboratory Testing to On-site Applications....Pages 297-308
Seismic Design of Plane Steel Frames Using Modal Strength Reduction (Behaviour) Factors....Pages 309-317
Recent Advances in Seismic Isolation: Methods and Tools....Pages 319-329
Modal Analysis of Isolated Bridges with Transverse Restraints at the End Abutments....Pages 331-339
Benefit–Cost Evaluation of Seismic Risk Mitigation in Existing Non-ductile Concrete Buildings....Pages 341-348
Seismic Retrofit of Non-ductile Reinforced Concrete Frames Using Infill Walls as a Rocking Spine....Pages 349-357
Deformation Capacity of Lightly Reinforced Concrete Members – Comparative Evaluation....Pages 359-371
The Effect of Displacement History on the Performance of Concrete Columns in Flexure....Pages 373-382
Innovative Seismic Retrofitting of RC Columns Using Advanced Composites....Pages 383-393
Optimum Partial Strengthening for Improved Seismic Performance of Old Reinforced Concrete Buildings with Open Ground Story....Pages 395-404
Front Matter....Pages 405-405
Role and Application of Testing and Computational Techniques in Seismic Engineering....Pages 407-418
Reliability Assessment in Pseudo-Dynamic and Dynamic Tests....Pages 419-429
Dynamic Interaction Between the Shaking Table and the Specimen During Seismic Tests....Pages 431-440
Front Matter....Pages 405-405
Frameworks for Internet Online Hybrid Test....Pages 441-450
Large Scale Seismic Testing of Steel-Framed Structures at NCREE....Pages 451-460
Large Scale Shaking Table Tests for High-Rise Buildings: New Projects of E-Defense....Pages 461-469
Verification Through Shaking Table Testing of EC8-Based Assessment Approaches Applied to a Building Designed for Gravity-Loads....Pages 471-482
Back Matter....Pages 483-486

✦ Subjects

Civil Engineering; Structural Mechanics; Geotechnical Engineering; Vibration, Dynamical Systems, Control