Critical Excitation Methods in Earthquake Engineering
Language: English
Published by Elsevier Science, 2007
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- Title
- Critical Excitation Methods in Earthquake Engineering
- Author
- Takewaki, Izuru
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Publication year
- 2007
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0080453090
- ISBN 13
- 9780080453095
- First comprehensive book for critical excitation methods
- Including updated, cutting-edge research
- Applicable to other worst-case analysis problems
- Including comprehensive review of critical excitation methods
- Including verification by comprehensive recorded ground motions
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In the past, once a big earthquake occurred, some building codes were upgraded. However, it is true that this repetition never resolves all the issues and new damage problems occur even recently. In order to overcome this problem, a new paradigm has to be posed. To the author’s knowledge, the concept of ‘critical excitation’ and the structural design based upon this concept can become one of such new paradigms.
In the seismic resistant design of building structures, the concept of ‘performance-based design’ has become a new paradigm guaranteeing the maximum satisfaction of building owners. The quality and reliability of the performance-based design certainly depend on the scientific rationality of design ground motions.
The most critical issue in the seismic resistant design is the resonance. The promising approaches are to shift the natural period of a building through seismic control and to add damping in the building. However it is also true that the seismic control is under development and more sufficient time is necessary to respond to uncertain ground motions. This book introduces a new probabilistic and energy-based critical excitation approach to overcome several problems in the scientific and rational modeling of ground motions. The author hopes that this book will help the development of new seismic-resistant design methods of buildings for such unpredicted or unpredictable ground motions.
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