Learn to design code-compliant, earthquake-resistant structures with this practical guide

Earthquake Engineering demonstrates how to design structural members and joints for seismic resistance. The text guides readers through dozens of structural designs, documenting how to perform each step, make the necessary calculations, and adhere to relevant design codes. Most other texts on seismic design focus on theory and the construction of idealized structures; this text is a radical departure, presenting actual tested design methodologies that protect structures from the devastation of earthquakes.

All the design methods presented by the author comply with the current U.S. building codes. References to these codes are provided throughout the text, helping readers understand how they are integrated into an overall structural design.

Everything readers need to create sound designs, from analysis to design implementation, is provided, including:
* Dozens of worked problems throughout the text
* Complete reference chapters dedicated to matrices, differential equations, and numerical analysis
* Latest results of ongoing seismic research, including how these studies are likely to influence future design projects
* The latest 2006 IBC, highlighting significant variations from the 2000 and 2003 editions of the code
* Detailed coverage of seismic design for steel moment-resisting frame structures (SMRF), as well as braced-frame steel, concrete, masonry, and wood-framed structures

This text, with its many worked problems, is ideal for upper-level undergraduates and graduate students. Now that the seismic engineering provisions of the IBC Code apply to the entire United States, this text should also guide practicing engineers not yet exposed to seismic design in designing code-compliant, earthquake-resistant structures.

Steel Detailers' Manual By Alan Hayward, Frank Weare, Anthony Oakhill

This highly illustrated manual provides practical guidance on structural steelwork detailing. It: * describes the common structural shapes in use and how they are joined to form members and complete structures* explains detailing practice and conventions* provides detailing data for standard sections, bolts and welds* emphasises the importance of tolerances in order to achieve proper site fit-up* discusses the important link between good detailing and construction costs Examples of structures include single and multi-storey buildings, towers and bridges. The detailing shown will be suitable in principle for fabrication and erection in many countries, and the sizes shown will act as a guide to preliminary design. The second edition has been updated to take account of changes to standards, including the revisions to BS5950 and includes a new chapter on computer aided detailing.

Engineering Damage Mechanics is deliberately oriented toward applications of continuous damage mechanics to failures of mechanical and civil engineering components in ductile, creep, fatigue and brittle conditions depending upon the thermomechanical loading and the materials: metals and alloys, polymers, elastomers, composites concretes. Nevertheless, to help engineers, researchers, beginners or not, the first two chapters are devoted to the main concepts of damage mechanics and to the associated computational tools

This report presents information on performance of steel shear walls under seismic effects and their seismic design. Steel shear walls discussed in this report are used to provide lateral strength and stiffness to steel building structures. They have also been used efficiently in seismic retrofit of existing steel or reinforced concrete buildings. Since 1970’s structural engineers have used the steel shear walls as lateral load resisting system for new high-rises in highly seismic regions such as California and Japan. This report is prepared to provide the state of the art of the seismic behavior as well as seismic design of steel shear walls. First, some of the important structures in which steel shear walls have been used, are introduced. Then, a summary of the behavior of steel shear walls under cyclic load, in the laboratory as well as during past earthquakes, is presented. Later in the report, current code provisions relevant to steel shear walls are presented and new R-Factor and other design parameters are proposed for steel shear walls. The report also includes a chapter on seismic design of steel shear walls. The design procedures if applied can result in more ductile, economical and better seismic performance. Finally, a number of economical and efficient steel shear wall systems and their details are suggested.
The first edition of this report, which was printed on paper, was released in February 2001. The differences between this electronic edition for the web and the first printed edition are: (a) the results of an additional test of steel shear walls conducted at UC-Berkeley are added to Section 3.5, (b) the equations adapted from the AISC-LRFD Specification are written in the same format as in the just released 1999 AISC-LRFD Specification, © any typographical error caught after the first printed version have been corrected in this electronic version and; (d) a page “about the author” has been added to the end of the report.