1st Edition

Design of Reinforced Concrete Buildings for Seismic Performance Practical Deterministic and Probabilistic Approaches

    598 Pages 439 B/W Illustrations
    by CRC Press

    598 Pages 439 B/W Illustrations
    by CRC Press

    The costs of inadequate earthquake engineering are huge, especially for reinforced concrete buildings. This book presents the principles of earthquake-resistant structural engineering, and uses the latest tools and techniques to give practical design guidance to address single or multiple seismic performance levels.

    It presents an elegant, simple and theoretically coherent design framework. Required strength is determined on the basis of an estimated yield displacement and desired limits of system ductility and drift demands. A simple deterministic approach is presented along with its elaboration into a probabilistic treatment that allows for design to limit annual probabilities of failure. The design method allows the seismic force resisting system to be designed on the basis of elastic analysis results, while nonlinear analysis is used for performance verification. Detailing requirements of ACI 318 and Eurocode 8 are presented. Students will benefit from the coverage of seismology, structural dynamics, reinforced concrete, and capacity design approaches, which allows the book to be used as a foundation text in earthquake engineering.

    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