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Role of Seismic Testing Facilities in Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering - SERIES Workshop (Paperback, 2012 ed.)
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Role of Seismic Testing Facilities in Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering - SERIES Workshop (Paperback, 2012 ed.)
Series: Geotechnical, Geological and Earthquake Engineering, 22
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Nowadays research in earthquake engineering is mainly experimental
and in large-scale; advanced computations are integrated with
large-scale experiments, to complement them and extend their scope,
even by coupling two different but simultaneous tests. Earthquake
engineering cannot give answers by testing and qualifying few,
small typical components or single large prototypes. Besides, the
large diversity of Civil Engineering structures does not allow
drawing conclusions from only a few tests; structures are large and
their seismic response and performance cannot be meaningfully
tested in an ordinary lab or in the field. So, seismic testing
facilities should be much larger than in other scientific fields;
their staff has to be resourceful, devising intelligent ways to
carry out simultaneously different tests and advanced computations.
To better serve such a mission European testing facilities and
researchers in earthquake engineering have shared their resources
and activities in the framework of the European project SERIES,
combining their research and jointly developing advanced testing
and instrumentation techniques that maximize testing capabilities
and increase the value of the tests. This volume presents the first
outcomes of the SERIES and its contribution towards
Performance-based Earthquake Engineering, i.e., to the most
important development in Earthquake Engineering of the past three
decades. The concept and the methodologies for performance-based
earthquake engineering have now matured. However, they are based
mainly on analytical/numerical research; large-scale seismic
testing has entered the stage recently. The SERIES Workshop in
Ohrid (MK) in Sept. 2010 pooled together the largest European
seismic testing facilities, Europe's best experts in experimental
earthquake engineering and select experts from the USA, to present
recent research achievements and to address future developments.
Audience: This volume will be of interest to researchers and
advanced practitioners in structural earthquake engineering,
geotechnical earthquake engineering, engineering seismology, and
experimental dynamics, including seismic qualification.
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