Structural Dynamics with Applications in Earthquake and Wind Engineering

✍ Scribed by Konstantin Meskouris, Christoph Butenweg, Klaus-G. Hinzen, Rüdiger Höffer

• Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 561
• Edition: 2nd ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the theory of structural dynamics, highlighting practical issues and illustrating applications with a large number of worked out examples. In the spirit of “learning by doing” it encourages readers to apply immediately these methods by means of the software provided, allowing them to become familiar with the broad field of structural dynamics in the process.
The book is primarily focused on practical applications. Earthquake resistant design is presented in a holistic manner, discussing both the underlying geophysical concepts and the latest engineering design methods and illustrated by fully worked out examples based on the newest structural codes. The spectral characteristics of turbulent wind processes and the main analysis methods in the field of structural oscillations due to wind gusts and vortex shedding are also discussed and applications illustrated by realistic examples of slender chimney structures.
The user‐friendly software employed is downloadable and can be readily used by readers to tackle their own problems.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xii
Basic Theory and Numerical Tools (Konstantin Meskouris)....Pages 1-95
Seismic Loading (Klaus-G. Hinzen)....Pages 97-151
Stochasticity of Wind Processes and Spectral Analysis of Structural Gust Response (Konstantin Meskouris, Christoph Butenweg, Klaus-G. Hinzen, Rüdiger Höffer)....Pages 153-196
Earthquake Resistant Design of Structures According to Eurocode 8 (Linda Giresini, Christoph Butenweg)....Pages 197-358
Seismic Design of Structures and Components in Industrial Units (Christoph Butenweg, Britta Holtschoppen)....Pages 359-481
Structural Oscillations of High Chimneys Due to Wind Gusts and Vortex Shedding (Francesca Lupi, Hans-Jürgen Niemann, Rüdiger Höffer)....Pages 483-552

✦ Subjects

Engineering; Building Construction and Design; Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences