Seismic Conceptual Design of Buildings – Basic principles

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Seismic Conceptual Design of Buildings – Basic principles

For a long time earthquake risk was considered unavoidable. It was accepted that buildings would be damaged as a result of an earthquake’s ground shaking. Preventive measures for earthquakes were therefore mostly limited to disaster management preparedness. Although measures related to construction methods had already been proposed at the beginning of the 20th century, it is only during the last decades that improved and intensified research has revealed how to effectively reduce the vulnerability of structures to earthquakes.
The objective of this document is to present recent knowledge on earthquake protection measures for buildings in a simple and easy to understand manner. The chosen method explains basic principles by matching them with illustrations, examples, and an explanatory text. The principles, photographs (from the author for third parties), and the texts are the result of a long research and design activity in the challenging and strongly evolving field of earthquake engineering.
The author would like to thank, above all, the numerous photographs contributors mentioned at the end of the booklet, who have made available the results of extensive and often dangerous efforts. Thanks are also extended to the Federal Office for Water and Geology and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation for editing and carefully printing this document.

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Seismic Conceptual Design of Buildings – Basic principles

This document offers a broad outline of the art of designing earthquake resistant buildings. It describes basic principles guiding the seismic design of structures. These principles govern primarily the Conceptual design and Detailing of Structural elements and Non-structural elements.
The conceptual design and the detailing of the structural elements (walls, columns, slabs) and the non-structural elements (partition walls, façades) plays a central role in determining the structural behaviour (before failure) and the earthquake vulnerability (sensitivity to damage) of buildings. Errors and defects in the conceptual design cannot be compensated for in the following calculations and detailed design of the engineer. A seismically correct conceptual design is furthermore necessary in order to achieve a good earthquake resistance without incurring significant additional costs.

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