Seismic Design Methods for Steel Building Structures

The book, after two introductory chapters on seismic design principles and structural seismic analysis methods, proceeds with the detailed description of seismic design methods for steel building structures. These methods include all the well-known methods, like force-based or displacement-based methods, plus some other methods developed by the present authors or other authors that have reached a level of maturity and are applicable to a large class of steel building structures. For every method, detailed practical examples and supporting references are provided in order to illustrate the methods and demonstrate their merits. As a unique feature, the present book describes not just one, as it is the case with existing books on seismic design of steel structures, but various seismic design methods including application examples worked in detail. The book is a valuable source of information, not only for MS and PhD students, but also for researchers and practicing engineers engaged with the design of steel building structures.

Associate Professor G.A.Papagiannopoulos and Professor G.D.Hatzigeorgiou are the Directors of the MS programs on Earthquake Engineering and Construction Management, respectively, at the Hellenic Open University, Greece. Emeritus Professor D.E.Beskos is with the Civil Engineering Department of the University of Patras, Greece. He is a Member of the Academia Europaea and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts and Co-Editor-in-Chief of Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering. All three authors maintain research interests in Computational Mechanics, Earthquake Engineering, Analysis and Design of Steel Structures and Dynamic Soil-Structure Interaction,