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Buildings --- Earthquake engineering --- Earthquake effects. --- Data processing. --- Civil engineering --- Engineering --- Engineering geology --- Shear walls --- Earthquakes and building

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Current knowledge and state-of-the-art developments in topics related to the seismic performance and risk assessment of different types of structures and building stock are addressed in the book, with emphasis on probabilistic methods. The first part addresses the global risk components, as well as seismic hazard and ground motions, whereas the second, more extensive part presents recent advances in methods and tools for the seismic performance and risk assessment of structures. The book contains examples of steel, masonry and reinforced concrete buildings, as well as some examples related to various types of infrastructure, such as bridges and concrete gravity dams. The book's aim is to make a contribution towards the mitigation of seismic risk by presenting advanced methods and tools which can be used to achieve well-informed decision-making, this being the key element for the future protection of the built environment against earthquakes. Audience: This book will be of interest to researchers, postgraduate students and practicing engineers working in the fields of natural hazards, earthquake, structural and geotechnical engineering, and computational mechanics, but it may also be attractive to other experts working in the fields related to social and economic impact of earthquakes.

Buildings -- Earthquake effects. --- Earthquake engineering. --- Earthquake hazard analysis. --- Earthquake resistant design. --- Earthquakes -- Safety measures. --- Emergency management. --- Structural dynamics. --- Earthquake engineering --- Earthquake resistant design --- Earthquake hazard analysis --- Buildings --- Civil & Environmental Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Civil Engineering --- Earthquake effects --- Earthquake effects. --- Earthquakes and building --- Aseismic design --- Seismic design --- Earth sciences. --- Natural disasters. --- Geotechnical engineering. --- Civil engineering. --- Earth Sciences. --- Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences. --- Civil Engineering. --- Natural Hazards. --- Civil engineering --- Engineering --- Engineering geology --- Shear walls --- Structural design --- Vertical evacuation structures --- Geology. --- Public works --- Geognosy --- Geoscience --- Earth sciences --- Natural history --- Natural calamities --- Disasters --- Engineering, Geotechnical --- Geotechnics --- Geotechnology

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In the past, facilities considered to be at the end of their useful life were demolished and replaced with new ones that better met the functional requirements of modern society, including new safety standards. Humankind has recently recognised the threats to the environment and to our limited natural resources due to our relentless determination to destroy the old and build anew. With the awareness of these constraints and the emphasis on sustainability, in future the majority of old structures will be retrofitted to extend their service life as long as feasible. In keeping with this new approach, the EU’s Construction Products Regulation 305/2011, which is the basis of the Eurocodes, included the sustainable use of resources as an "Essential Requirement" for construction. So, the forthcoming second generation of EN-Eurocodes will cover not only the design of new structures, but the rehabilitation of existing ones as well. Most of the existing building stock and civil infrastructures are seismically deficient. When the time comes for a decision to prolong their service life with the help of structural and architectural upgrading, seismic retrofitting may be needed. Further, it is often decided to enhance the earthquake resistance of facilities that still meet their functional requirements and fulfil their purpose, if they are not earthquake-safe. In order to decide how badly a structure needs seismic upgrading or to prioritise it in a population of structures, a seismic evaluation is needed, which also serves as a guide for the extent and type of strengthening. Seismic codes do not sufficiently cover the delicate phase of seismic evaluation nor the many potential technical options for seismic upgrading; therefore research is on-going and the state-of-the-art is constantly evolving. All the more so as seismic evaluation and rehabilitation demand considerable expertise, to make best use of the available safety margins in the existing structure, to adapt the engineering capabilities and techniques at hand to the particularities of a project, to minimise disruption of use, etc. Further, as old structures are very diverse in terms of their materials and layout, seismic retrofitting does not lend itself to straightforward codified procedures or cook-book approaches. As such, seismic evaluation and rehabilitation need the best that the current state-of-the-art can offer on all aspects of earthquake engineering. This volume serves this need, as it gathers the most recent research of top seismic experts from around the world on seismic evaluation, retrofitting and closely related subjects.

Earthquake resistant design. --- Buildings --- Earthquake effects. --- Earthquakes and building --- Aseismic design --- Seismic design --- Earth sciences. --- Natural disasters. --- Geotechnical engineering. --- Structural mechanics. --- Vibration. --- Dynamical systems. --- Dynamics. --- Civil engineering. --- Earth Sciences. --- Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences. --- Structural Mechanics. --- Civil Engineering. --- Vibration, Dynamical Systems, Control. --- Natural Hazards. --- Earthquake engineering --- Structural design --- Vertical evacuation structures --- Mechanics. --- Mechanics, Applied. --- Geology. --- Solid Mechanics. --- Geognosy --- Geoscience --- Earth sciences --- Natural history --- Cycles --- Mechanics --- Sound --- Applied mechanics --- Engineering, Mechanical --- Engineering mathematics --- Classical mechanics --- Newtonian mechanics --- Physics --- Dynamics --- Quantum theory --- Engineering --- Public works --- Natural calamities --- Disasters --- Dynamical systems --- Kinetics --- Mathematics --- Mechanics, Analytic --- Force and energy --- Statics --- Engineering, Geotechnical --- Geotechnics --- Geotechnology --- Engineering geology

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Engineers are always interested in the worst-case scenario. One of the most important and challenging missions of structural engineers may be to narrow the range of unexpected incidents in building structural design. Redundancy, robustness and resilience play an important role in such circumstances. Improving the Earthquake Resilience of Buildings: The worst case approach discusses the importance of worst-scenario approach for improved earthquake resilience of buildings and nuclear reactor facilities. Improving the Earthquake Resilience of Buildings: The worst case approach consists of two parts. The first part deals with the characterization and modeling of worst or critical ground motions on inelastic structures and the related worst-case scenario in the structural design of ordinary simple building structures. The second part of the book focuses on investigating the worst-case scenario for passively controlled and base-isolated buildings. This allows for detailed consideration of a range of topics including: •A consideration of damage of building structures in the critical excitation method for improved building-earthquake resilience, •A consideration of uncertainties of structural parameters in structural control and base-isolation for improved building-earthquake resilience, and •New insights in structural design of super high-rise buildings under long-period ground motions. Improving the Earthquake Resilience of Buildings: The worst case approach is a valuable resource for researchers and engineers interested in learning and applying the worst-case scenario approach in the seismic-resistant design for more resilient structures.

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This book focuses on the seismic design of Structures, Piping Systems and Components (SSC). It explains the basic mechanisms of earthquakes, generation of design basis ground motion, and fundamentals of structural dynamics; further, it delves into geotechnical aspects related to the earthquake design, analysis of multi degree-of-freedom systems, and seismic design of RC structures and steel structures. The book discusses the design of components and piping systems located at the ground level as well as at different floor levels of the structure. It also covers anchorage design of component and piping system, and provides an introduction to retrofitting, seismic response control including seismic base isolation, and testing of SSCs. The book is written in an easy-to-understand way, with review questions, case studies and detailed examples on each topic. This educational approach makes the book useful in both classrooms and professional training courses for students, researchers, and professionals alike.

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