Quantification of Building Seismic Performance Factors (FEMA)
Quantification of Building Seismic Performance Factors
Charles Kircher, Applied Technology Council
Publisher: Federal Emergency Management Agency of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (FEMA)
Published: June 2009
Pages: 421
Subjects:
* Earthquake resistant design - Standards
* Earthquake hazard analysis
* Buildings -- Earthquake effects
* Risk assessment
* Earthquake engineering.
* Structural analysis (Engineering)
* Building laws
The objective of this publication was to develop a procedure to establish consistent and rational building system performance and response parameters (R, Cd, Ω0) for the linear design methods traditionally used in current building codes. The primary application of the procedure is for the evaluation of structural systems for new construction with equivalent earthquake performance
Quantification of Building Seismic Performance Factors presents a recommended methodology for reliably quantifying building system performance and response parameters for use in seismic design. The parameters or “seismic performance factors” addressed include the response modification coefficient (R factor), system overstrength factor, and deflection amplification factor. The methodology is a refinement of an earlier preliminary methodology, and is based on a review of relevant research on nonlinear response and collapse simulation, benchmarking studies of selected structural systems, feedback from an expanded group of experts and potential users, and evaluations of additional structural systems conducted to verify the technical soundness and applicability of the approach
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Buildings for Industrial Storage and Distribution
Publisher: Architectural Press | ISBN: 0750648198 | edition 2003 | PDF | 288 pages | 26,4 mb
The purpose of this book is to assist in understanding the mechanics of industrial storage processes. Many of the relationships are of an approximate nature and may be unsuitable for detailed calculations. While reasonable care has been taken, it is possible that errors exist in the material contained and neither the authors nor the publisher can accept responsibility for any results arising from use of information in this book.
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Electric Railways, 1880-1990
By M. C. Duffy
Publisher: The Institution of Engineering and Technology 2003 | 480 Pages | ISBN: 0852968051 | PDF | 4 MB
This book presents a thorough survey of electric railway development from the earliest days of the London Underground to modern electrified main line trains. Coverage includes chapters on signalling and communications, power supplies, and a detailed survey about traction systems, both AC and DC. The introduction, first of mercury arc rectifiers, and later of power semiconductor controls, is also discussed in detail. The author has a long standing interest in engineering history and has written many papers on aspects of railway technology. This book will be of particular interest to scientists and historians interested in the development of electric railways.
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Construction Management and Planning
B Sengupta,H. Guha,
Tata Mcgraw-Hill | 2002 | ISBN: 0074623982 | 310 pages | PDF | 15,6 MB
This book presents the various issues and techniques in different facets of construction management. It gives a lucid description of the concepts included in the study of construction site analysis, financial management and legal environs with special emphasis on applications.Special Features: System techniques like CPM and PERT to study time-cost relationships and uncertainty;Includes selected research topics on construction management detailing bidding models, scheduling uncertainty, resource optimisation, aggregate blending, etc; Incorporates important topics--accounts management, cost management, contracts and commercial laws and, tender evaluation;Discusses the computer aided training in various fields of construction industry through application programs on project management, advanced construction engineering and export system for construction;Includes a case study showing the analysis of a tender bid; Highlights the various operation research techniques such as queuing, linear programming and simulation;Innovative exercises and worked examples at the end of various chapters.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Contract Management
3. Details of Construction
4. Construction Organisation and Superintendence
5. Operation Analysis and Statics
6. Construction Practice I
7. Construction Practice II: Superstructure
8. Times Management and Scheduling
9. Quantitative Management Applications
10. Quality Management and Safety
11. Resource Management and Inventory
12. Accounts Management
13. Cost Management
14. Financial Management
15. Contract and Relevant Commercial Laws
16. Relevant Labour and Industrial Laws
17. Case study
18. Information Management and Computers
19. Selected ResearchTopics in Construction Management
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Computational Earthquake Physics: Simulations, Analysis and Infrastructure, Part 1 & 2
By: Xiang-chu Yin, Peter Mora, Andrea Donnellan, Mitsuhiro Matsu'ura
Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel
Exciting developments in earthquake science have benefited from new observations, improved computational technologies, and improved modeling capabilities. Designing realistic supercomputer simulation models for the complete earthquake generation process is a grand scientific challenge due to the complexity of phenomena and range of scales involved from microscopic to global.
The book is divided into two parts:
Part I - focuses on microscopic simulation, scaling physics, dynamic rapture and wave propagation, earthquake generation, cycle and seismic pattern. Topics covered range from numerical developments, rupture and gouge studies of the particle model, Liquefied Cracks and Rayleigh Wave Physics, studies of catastrophic failure and critical sensitivity, numerical and theoretical studies of crack propagation, developments in finite difference methods for modeling faults, long time scale simulation of interacting fault systems, modeling of crustal deformation, through to mantle convection.
Part II - incorporates computational environment and algorithms, data assimilation and understanding, model applications and iSERVO. Topics covered range from iSERVO and QuakeSim: implementing the international solid earth research virtual observatory by integrating computational grid and geographical information web services; LURR (Load-Unload Response Ratio) described in six papers involving this promising earthquake forecasting model; pattern informatics and phase dynamics and their applications, which was also a highlight in the Workshop; computational algorithms, including continuum damage models and visualization and analysis of geophysical datasets; evolution of mantle material; the state vector approach; and assimilation of data such as geodetic data, GPS data, and seismicity and laboratory experimental data.
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Tailor Made Concrete Structures: New Solutions for our Society
Tailor Made Concrete Structures: New Solutions for our Society
Joost C. Walraven, Dick Stoelhorst "
CRC Press | English | 2008-05-07 | ISBN: 041547535X | 316 pages | PDF | 1,3 MB
In recent years knowledge of concrete and concrete structures has increased, as has its applications. New types of concrete challenged scientists and engineers, and ecological constraints encouraged the implementation of life cycle design of concrete structures, moving the focus more and more to maintenance and uprating of structures. And since buildings are not only designed for safety and serviceability, but also for flexibility and adaptability, the design of performance based materials and structures has become more and more important.
Tailor Made Concrete Structures. New Solutions for our Society comprises the proceedings of the International fib Symposium 2008 (Amsterdam, 19-22 May 2008), and considers these new perspectives and developments, including sections on new materials (i.e. fire resisting concrete, ultra-high performance fibered concrete, textile reinforced concrete, bacteria-based self healing concrete) and codes for the future (i.e. the American P2P Iniative, fibre-reinforced polymer (FRP) applications in construction, Codes for SFRC Structures).
The book includes contributions from leading scientists and professionals in concrete and concrete structures worldwide, and covers:
– Life cycle design
– Design strategies for the future
– Underground structures
– Monitoring and Inspection
– Diagnosis
– Innovative materials
– Codes for the future
– Modifying and adapting structures
– Architectural Concrete
– Developing a modern infrastructure
– Designing structures against extreme loads
– Increasing the speed of construction
Tailor Made Concrete Structures. New Solutions for our Society includes the state-of-the-art in research on concrete and concrete structures, and will be invaluable to professionals, structural engineers and scientists
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Bridge Maintenance, Safety Management, Health Monitoring and Informatics
Bridge Maintenance, Safety Management, Health Monitoring and Informatics
Hyun-Moo Koh, Dan Frangopol,
Taylor & Francis | 2008 | ISBN: 0415468442 | 778 pages | PDF | 7,7 MB
An extensive collection of 550 revised papers on most recent advances in bridge maintenance, safety, management and life-cycle performance. This is a major contribution to the state-of-the-art in all aspects of the field, containing papers from leading experts.
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