Damage-based earthquake engineering / Pierre Ghisbain.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ghisbain, Pierre, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Earthquake engineering--Examinations--Study guides.

Earthquake engineering.

Earthquake engineering--Data processing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 p.)

Place of Publication:

Southampton, England : WIT Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Over the life of a structure, the smaller but more frequent earthquakes contribute more to the cumulative damage than the larger earthquakes on which structural design is traditionally based. This is a quantitative argument in favour of designing structures beyond what the codes require for life-safety.This book presents a computational method to evaluate the damage sustained by a building over its lifetime in a seismic environment. The ability to estimate future damage is relevant to a pair of current trends in earthquake engineering: a growing interest for preventing damage on top of protect

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-78466-014-0

OCLC:

898892837