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Most of the existing strong motion instrumentation on civil
engineering structures is installed and operated as federal, state,
university, industry or private applications, in many cases
operated as a closed system. This hampers co-operation and data
exchange, hampering the acquisition of strong motion and structural
data, sometimes even within a single country. There is a powerful
need to inform engineers of existing strong motion data and to
improve the accessibility of data worldwide. This book will play a
role in fulfilling such a need by disseminating state-of-the art
information, technology and developments in the strong motion
instrumentation of civil engineering structures. The subject has
direct implications for the earthquake response of structures,
improvements in design for earthquake resistance, and hazard
mitigation. Readership: Researchers in earthquake engineering,
engineers designing earthquake resistant structures, and producers
of strong motion recording equipment.
Most of the existing strong motion instrumentation on civil
engineering structures is installed and operated as federal, state,
university, industry or private applications, in many cases
operated as a closed system. This hampers co-operation and data
exchange, hampering the acquisition of strong motion and structural
data, sometimes even within a single country. There is a powerful
need to inform engineers of existing strong motion data and to
improve the accessibility of data worldwide. This book will play a
role in fulfilling such a need by disseminating state-of-the art
information, technology and developments in the strong motion
instrumentation of civil engineering structures. The subject has
direct implications for the earthquake response of structures,
improvements in design for earthquake resistance, and hazard
mitigation. Readership: Researchers in earthquake engineering,
engineers designing earthquake resistant structures, and producers
of strong motion recording equipment.
This book includes a collection of state-of-the-art contributions
addressing both theoretical developments in, and successful
applications of, seismic structural health monitoring (S2HM). Over
the past few decades, Seismic SHM has expanded considerably, due to
the growing demand among various stakeholders (owners, managers and
engineering professionals) and researchers. The discipline has
matured in the process, as can be seen by the number of S2HM
systems currently installed worldwide. Furthermore, the responses
recorded by S2HM systems hold great potential, both with regard to
the management of emergency situations and to ordinary maintenance
needs. The book's 17 chapters, prepared by leading international
experts, are divided into four major sections. The first comprises
six chapters describing the specific requirements of S2HM systems
for different types of civil structures and infrastructures
(buildings, bridges, cultural heritage, dams, structures with base
isolation devices) and for monitoring different phenomena (e.g.
soil-structure interaction and excessive drift). The second section
describes available methods and computational tools for data
processing, while the third is dedicated to hardware and software
tools for S2HM. In the book's closing section, five chapters report
on state-of-the-art applications of S2HM around the world.
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