Seismic Design Of Concrete Buildings To Eurocode 8
Contents
- Seismic design of concrete buildings in the context of Eurocodes
- Seismic design of concrete buildings in this book
- Seismic performance requirements for buildings in Eurocode
- Life safety under a rare earthquake: The ‘design
- seismic action’ and the ‘seismic design situation’
- Limitation of damage in occasional earthquakes
- Earthquakes and their structural and geotechnical effects
- Introduction to earthquakes
- Measure of earthquake characteristics: Magnitudes
- Characteristics of ground motions
- Determination of ground motion parameters
- Probabilistic seismic hazard analyses
- Effects of earthquakes on concrete buildings
- Global seismic response mechanisms
- Collapse
- Member behaviour and failure
- Columns
- Beam–column joints
- Beams
- Concrete walls
Effects of earthquakes on geotechnical structures
- Site effects
- Soil liquefaction
- Slope stability
- Earthquake effects on shallow foundations
- Earthquake effects on lifelines
- Analysis of building structures for seismic actions
- Linear elastic analysis
- Dynamics of single degree of freedom systems
- Equation of motion
- Free vibration
- Forced vibration
- Numerical evaluation of dynamic response
- Seismic response of SDOF systems – Response spectrum
- Response spectra
- Pseudo-spectra and seismic force
- Elastic response spectra according to Eurocode
- Dynamics of multiple degrees of freedom systems
- Equation of motion
- Free vibration
