During the last decade, the state of the art in Earthquake
Engineering Design and Analysis has made significant steps towards
a more rationale analysis of structures. Scientists have long
recognized that earthquake design is guided by displacements and
deformations rather than forces. However due to the historical
background of structural engineers in static analyses, effects of
earthquake on structures have been viewed as forces acting on the
structures. All presently available design building codes are
developed along these lines. Our knowledge of ground motion
characteristics, earthquake geotechnical engineering, structural
behaviour (design and numerical analyses) and model tests have
advanced to a point where it is possible to anticipate a
significant move from force based design approaches to
displacements based design approaches. Although displacement based
analyses constitute the kernel of most research programs, they have
not yet been incorporated in the state of practice.
The purpose of the book is to review the fundamentals of
displacement based methods, starting from engineering seismology,
earthquake geotechnical engineering, to focus on design, analysis
and testing of structures with emphasis on buildings and
bridges.
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