Seismic Assessment and Rehabilitation of Existing Buildings - Proceedings of the NATO Science for Peace Workshop, Izmir, Turkey, from 13 to 14 May 2003 (Hardcover, 2003 ed.)

This book will appeal to specialist engineers with enquiring minds and, in a broader sense, to all who live in buildings, especially those in a seismically active region. While the continual development of building codes permits the design of new construction to resist earthquake loads more effectively, a major problem is that buildings which may once have conformed to past seismic codes become structurally unacceptable according to today's codes and need upgrading or retrofitting'. Poor construction methods also result in buildings that do not conform to any codes. Existing vulnerable' buildings that require strengthening in earthquake-prone countries immensely outnumber all recent construction.
The health' of buildings thus requires assessment and rehabilitation. Seismic assessment ranges from the cataloguing of danger symptoms' in individual buildings to structural analyses involving finite element procedures and refined statistical analyses incorporating expert systems, stochastic processes and predictions from available databases. Structures have to be rendered fit for earthquakes, and this book goes a long way towards showing why and how, offering the results of cutting-edge research in the area and presenting innovative methods that enable system improvement while the structure remains in use.

General

Imprint:	Kluwer Academic Publishers
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	NATO Science Series IV, v. 29
Release date:	December 2003
First published:	2003
Editors:	S. Tanvir Wasti • Guney OEzcebe
Dimensions:	248 x 163 x 35mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	564
Edition:	2003 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-1-4020-1624-0
Categories:	Books > Earth & environment > Earth sciences > Structure & properties of the Earth > Volcanology & seismology Books > Professional & Technical > Civil engineering, surveying & building > Structural engineering > General Promotions
LSN:	1-4020-1624-7
Barcode:	9781402016240

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