Rapid Visual Screening of Buildings for Potential Seismic Hazards: Supporting Documentation
Rapid Visual Screening of Buildings for Potential Seismic Hazards: Supporting Documentation

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Publisher: Government Printing Office

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 9780160926754

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The Rapid Visual Screening (RVS) handbook can be used by trained personnel to identify, inventory, and screen buildings that are potentially seismically vulnerable. The RVS procedure comprises a method and several forms that help users to quickly identify, inventory, and score buildings according to their risk of collapse if hit by major earthquakes. The RVS handbook describes how to identify the structural type and key weakness characteristics, how to complete the screening forms, and how to manage a successful RVS program.

Elements of Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics
Elements of Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics

Author: André Filiatrault

Publisher: Presses inter Polytechnique

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 9782553010217

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Earthquake engineering is the ultimate challenge for structural engineers. Even if natural phenomena such as earthquakes involve great uncertainties, structural engineers need to design buildings, bridges, and dams capable of resisting the destructive forces produced by earthquakes. However, structural engineers must rely on the expertise of other specialists to realize these projects. Thus, this book not only focuses on structural analysis and design, but also discusses other disciplines, such as geology, seismology, and soil dynamics, providing basic knowledge in these areas so that structural engineers can better interact with different specialists when working on earthquake engineering projects."

Do Seismic Analysis Using Finite Elements
Do Seismic Analysis Using Finite Elements

Author: Phil Cooper

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 104

ISBN-13:

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This book aims to provide practical guidance on the application of FEA to the seismic analysis of structures and equipment, and to inform the reader generally about seismic analysis. The intended audience is the practicing engineer (and to a lesser degree engineering managers). It is assumed that the reader has some understanding and experience of seismic engineering and FEA. Examples of actual applications of FEA to safety critical structures and plant are used to illustrate some of the techniques and guidelines given within this document. There is much literature on the subject of FEA, including other NAFEMS publications, and there is an abundance of literature on the subject of seismic engineering. In particular, the reader is referred to ASCE 4-98 [Ref 1], and its successor document ASCE/SEI 43-05 [Ref 2]. Although geared to seismic analysis of safety related nuclear structures, this publication offers good practical guidance that is generally applicable to seismic analysis.