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Concrete Buildings In Seismic Regions Free PDF Engineering Book

Bearing in mind that reinforced concrete is a key component in a majority of built environment structures, Concrete Buildings in Seismic Regions combines the scientific knowledge of earthquake engineering with a focus on the design of reinforced concrete buildings in seismic regions. This book addresses practical design issues, providing an integrated, comprehensible, and clear presentation that is suitable for design practice.

It combines current approaches to seismic analysis and design, with a particular focus on reinforced concrete structures, and includes:

an overview of structural dynamics
analysis and design of new R/C buildings in seismic regions
post-earthquake damage evaluation, pre earthquake assessment of buildings and retrofitting procedures
seismic risk management of R/C buildings within urban nuclei
extended numerical example applications

Concrete Buildings in Seismic Regions determines guidelines for the proper structural system for many types of buildings, explores recent developments, and covers the last two decades of analysis, design, and earthquake engineering.

Divided into three parts, the book specifically addresses seismic demand issues and the basic issues of structural dynamics, considers the “capacity” of structural systems to withstand seismic effects in terms of strength and deformation, and highlights existing R/C buildings under seismic action.

All of the book material has been adjusted to fit a modern seismic code and offers in-depth knowledge of the background upon which the code rules are based. It complies with the last edition of European Codes of Practice for R/C buildings in seismic regions. It also includes references to the American Standards in effect for seismic design.

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Earthquake Resistant Design Of Structures Free PDF

This book introduces and explains all aspects of earthquake-resistant design of structures. Designed as a textbook for undergraduate and graduate students of civil engineering, practising engineers and architects will also find the book equally useful.

It has been assumed that the reader is well acquainted with structural analysis, structural dynamics, and structural design.

The design of earthquake-resistant structures is an art as well as science. It is necessary to have an understanding of the manner in which a structure absorbs the energy transmitted to it during an earthquake.

The book provides a comprehensive coverage of the basic principles of earthquake-resistant design with special emphasis on the design of masonry, reinforced concrete, and steel buildings. The text is focussed on the design of structural and non-structural elements in accordance with the BIS codes.

Content :

1. Earthquakes and Ground Motion
2. Dynamics of Structures and Seismic Response
3. Dynamics of Soils and Seismic Response
4. Conceptual Design
5. Code-based Analysis Method and Design Approaches
6. Masonry Buildings
7. Timber Buildings
8. Reinforced Concrete Buildings
9. Steel Buildings
10. Non-structural Elements
11. Bhuj Earthquake 2001: A Case Study

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Seismic Design Of Reinforced Concrete and Masonry Buildings Free PDF

CONTENT :

Causes and Effects of Earthquakes: Seismicity–Structural Response–Seismic Action.
Principles of Member Design.
Reinforced Concrete Ductile Frames.
Structural Walls.
Dual Systems.
Masonry Structures.
Reinforced Concrete Buildings with Restricted Ductility
Foundation Structures.

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345 Solved Seismic Design Problems Free PDF

This book introduces you to the seismic exam and tells you how to use 345 Solved Seismic Design Problem. It also explains how to relate this book to reference materials, such as the California Building Code, Seismic Design of Building Structure, and others.

Using this book as a study guide, you will be surprised to discover how effectively you can learn seismic principles and fundamental earthquake engineering of structure to successfully pass the special seismic exam.

This book gives you the opportunity to work problems of the same format and difficulty as those on the seismic portion of the California Special Civil Engineer exam. Every problem is fully solved.

Content:

Seismology principles, Earthquake Characteristics, and basiic structural dynamics.
Codes and regulatory provisions
Diaphragm theory
Details of structure
Design problems
A. useful conversion factors
B. reference and suggested reading

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Earthquake Engineering Mechanism, Damage Assessment And Structural Design Free PDF

This book is an expanded version of the earlier (first edition) text, Earthquake Engineering —Damage Assessment and Structural Design, here called EE-DA&SD.

Every chapter of the first edition has been altered and enlarged and new chapters have been added to include work done by the author and some of his graduate students, following the publication of EE-DA&SD.

Some remarks concerning the modus operandi of the two texts may be in order. In accordance with currently accepted methods of scientific inquiry, the procedures used in EE-DA&SD and in this bode for developing the rational earthquake engineering theory.

Content :

A Tensile Rupture Instability Similarity Earthquake Mechanism
The Canonical Accelerogram and Its Parameters
The Canonical Isoseismal Chart and Its Parameters
The Earthquake Engineering Damage Assessment and Structural Design Charts and Curves
Efficiency -Focal Depth and Figure 4.5
Superposition of Canonical Accelerograms
Superposition of Canonical Isoseismal Contour Maps
Approximate Analytical Damage (Intensity Number) Assessment Procedures
Special Topics in Earthquake Structural Engineering
Some Non-Structural Applications of the Rational Theory
Some Structural Applications of the Rational Theory

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Earthquake Resistant Design of Structures Free PDF

By PANKAJ AGARWAL

The vast devastation of engineered systems and facilities during the past few earthquakes has exposed serious deficiencies in the prevalent design and construction practices. These disasters have created a new awareness of disaster preparedness and mitigation.

With increased awareness came the demand of learning resource material which directly addresses the requirements of professionals without any circumlocution. While the recommended codes of practice for earthquake resistant design do exist but those only specify a set of criteria for compliance. These design codes throw little light on the basic issue of how to design.

The problem! Jl becomes more acute as students graduate with degrees in civil/structural engineering without any exposure to earthquake engineering in most of the universities/institutes. The short-term refresher courses routinely offered by various institutes and universities for professionals achieve little more than mere familiarization with the subject matter.

Content :

1. Engineering Seismology
2. Seismic Zoning Map of India
3. Strong Motion Studies in India
4. Strong Motion Characteristics
5. Evaluation of Seismic Design Parameters
6. Initiation into Structural Dynamics
8. Theory of Seismic Pickups
9. Numerical Evaluation of Dynamic Response
10. Response Spectra
11. Dynamics of Multi-Degree-of-Freedom Systems
12. Earthquake and Vibration Effect on Structures

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Earthquake Engineering for Structural Design Free PDF

This chapter provides a basic understanding of earthquakes, by first discussing the causes of earthquakes,
then defining commonly used terms, explaining how earthquakes are measured, discussing the distribution
of seismicity, and, finally, explaining how seismicity can be characterized.

Earthquakes are broad-banded vibratory ground motions, resulting from a number of causes including tectonic ground motions, volcanism, landslides, rockbursts, and man-made explosions.

Of these, naturally occurring tectonic-related earthquakes are the largest and most important.

These are caused by the fracture and sliding of rock along faults within the Earth’s crust. A fault is a zone of the
earth’s crust within which the two sides have moved — faults may be hundreds of miles long, from one to over one hundred miles deep, and are sometimes not readily apparent on the ground surface.

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Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering Free PDF

By Ikuo Towhata

The main aim of this book is a collection of data which is useful in understanding the state-of-art technology and its application to new topics. Understanding the fundamental issues is important because practice makes use of many assumptions, hypotheses, and ways of thinking.

It has been my policy to show reasons why practice employs those ideas by showing experimental and field backgrounds. This idea does not change even today. Collecting background information is not very easy for an individual person.

It is necessary to read many publications; some were published in the first half of the 20th Century, and others in domestic publications. Not being impossible, this information collection is firstly a time-consuming business.

Secondly, access to old publications may not be easy to everybody. I am therefore attempting in this book to collect information as much as possible so that the new generation of readers can save time in studying.

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Concrete Structures in Earthquake Free PDF

By Thomas T. C. Hsu

This book gathers 23 papers by top experts from 11 countries, presented at the 3rd Houston International Forum: Concrete Structures in Earthquake.

Designing infrastructures to resist earthquakes has always been the focus and mission of scientists and engineers located in tectonically active regions, especially around the “Pacific Rim of Fire” including China, Japan, and the USA.

The pace of research and innovation has accelerated in the past three decades, reflecting the need to mitigate the risk of severe damage to interconnected infrastructures, and to facilitate the incorporation of high-speed computers and the internet.

The respective papers focus on the design and analysis of concrete structures subjected to earthquakes, advance the state of knowledge in disaster mitigation, and address the safety of infrastructures in general.

Content :

Periodic Material-Based Three-Dimensional (3D) Seismic Base
Shear Behavior Prediction of Non-ductile Reinforced Concrete Members in Earthquake
Experimental Study of Novel Concrete Frames Considering
Validation of the PARC_CL 2.0 Crack Model Strength Strength
Research on Resilient Reinforced Concrete Building Structural System
The State of Knowledge and Practice in Concrete Structure Design for Earthquake
Development of Large-Diameter Reinforcing Bars for the Seismic Resistance of Reinforced Concrete Bridge Columns
Reversed Cyclic Tests of 1/13 Scale Cylindrical Concrete Containment Structures
Understanding the Seismic Behaviour of FRP Retrofitted RC Shear Walls: Past and Present
Seismic Response and Collapse Risk of Shearwall Buildings Subjected to Long Duration Ground Motion
Drift Capacity at Onset of Bar Buckling in RC Members Subjected to Earthquakes

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Basic Earthquake Engineering From Seismology to Analysis and Design Free PDF

By Halûk Sucuoğlu

Earthquake engineering is generally considered as an advanced research area in engineering education. Most of the textbooks published in this field cover topics related to graduate education and research.

There is a growing need, however, for the use of basic earthquake engineering knowledge, especially, in the earthquake resistant design of structural systems. Civil engineering graduates who are concerned with the structural design face the fundamental problems of earthquake engineering more frequently in their professional careers.

Hence, an introductory level textbook covering the basic concepts of earthquake engineering and earthquake-resistant design is considered an essential educational instrument to serve this purpose.

This book aims at introducing earthquake engineering to senior undergraduate students in civil engineering and to master’s students in structural engineering who do not have a particular background in this area.

Content :

1 Nature of Earthquakes
2 Seismic Hazard Assessment
3 Response of Simple Structures to Earthquake Ground Motions.
4 Earthquake Design Spectra
5 Response of Building Frames to Earthquake Ground Motions.
6 Analysis Procedures and Seismic Design Principles for Building Structures
7 Seismic Design of Reinforced Concrete Structures.

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