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

Aschheim, Mark, Hernández-Montes, Enrique, Vamvatsikos, Dimi

ISBN 10: 0415778816 / ISBN 13: 9780415778817

Published by CRC Press, 2019

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Design of Reinforced Concrete Buildings for Seismic Performance: Practical Deterministic and Probabilistic Approaches
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415778816
• ISBN 13: 9780415778817
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New
• Book Type: book

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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