Earthquake Engineering From Engineering Seismology to Performance-Based Engineering

Performance-based engineering, use of energy dissipating devices, earthquake-resistant design, and other techniques in earthquake engineering have come of age in the last decade. Following a brief overview of traditional methods, Earthquake Engineering: From Engineering Seismology to Performance-Based Engineering presents the details of these recent advances in a single volume. The book elucidates advances in scientific knowledge, summarizes recent research project findings, covers design guidelines, and discusses the future challenges and directions. Highlights include: Historical development of earthquake engineering and its modern goal Geosciences principles needed to define seismic hazards Geotechnical hazards and engineering characterizations of ground motion Deterministic and probabilistic methods of analysis Performance-based earthquake engineering, its applications, and future direction Innovative strategies and techniques, including seismic isolation and energy dissipation devices Seismic behavior and earthquake-resistant design of building structural systems using different structural materials such as reinforced concrete, steel, masonry, and wood Seismic analysis and design of nonstructural elements The multi-disciplinary nature of earthquake engineering is reflected in the diversity of the chapter authors. The book is the result of an enormous amount of time and energy spent by a panel of distinguished contributors whose collective experience exceeds 500 years of teaching, research, and practice.Bozorgnia, Yousef is the author of 'Earthquake Engineering From Engineering Seismology to Performance-Based Engineering' with ISBN 9780849314391 and ISBN 0849314399.