1st Edition
Design of Reinforced Concrete Buildings for Seismic Performance Practical Deterministic and Probabilistic Approaches
Introduction
Seismology and Site Effects.
Dynamics of Linear Elastic SDOF Oscillators
Dynamics of Nonlinear SDOF Oscillators.
Dynamics of Linear and Nonlinear MDOF Systems
Characterization of dynamic response using Principal Components Analysis
Equivalent SDOF Systems and Nonlinear Static (Pushover) Analysis
Principles of Earthquake-Resistant Design
Stability of the Yield Displacement
Performance-based Seismic Design
Plastic mechanism analysis
Proportioning of Earthquake-Resistant Structural Systems
Probabilistic Considerations
System Modeling and Analysis Considerations
Component Proportioning and Design Based on ACI 318
Component Proportioning and Design Requirements According to Eurocodes 2 and 8
Component Modeling and Acceptance Criteria
Design Methods
Design Examples
Design Charts for Rectangular and Barbell Section Walls
Plan Torsion
Validation of Column Flexural Stiffness Model
Biography
Mark Aschheim is a Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at Santa Clara University, California.
Enrique Hernández Montes is at the Universidad de Granada
Dimitrios Vamvatsikos is at the National Technical University of Athens
