HomeEARTHQUAKE: RESISTANT DESIGN AND RISK REDUCTION
EARTHQUAKE: RESISTANT DESIGN AND RISK REDUCTION
Editor: Maya Halcomb
Forthcoming
Binding: Hardcover
Earthquake events have not only affected humans and done physical damage, they have also been able to cause considerable economic conflict in vulnerable cities and regions. Recent major earthquakes around the world have revealed the vulnerability of infrastructure and the need for research to better understand the nature of seismic events and their effects on structures. The design of structures resistant to seismic events is an important field in the structural engineering, because it reduces both the loss of lives and the economic damages that earthquakes can produce. The conventional approach to earthquake resistant design of buildings depends upon providing the building with strength, stiffness and inelastic deformation capacity which are great enough to withstand a given level of earthquake-generated force. This is generally accomplished through the selection of an appropriate structural configuration and the careful detailing of structural members. Such as beams and columns, and the connections between them. But more advanced techniques for earthquake resistance is not to strengthen the building, but to reduce the earthquake-generated forces acting upon it. Experience in past earthquake has demonstrated that many common building and typical methods of construction lack basic resistance to earthquake forces.
In most cases this resistance can be achieved by following simple, inexpensive principles of good building construction practice. Adherence to these simple rules will not prevent all damage in moderate or large earthquakes, but life-threatening collapses should be prevented, and damage limited to repairable proportions. The book Earthquake: Resistant Design and Risk Reduction provides excellent treatment of the complex multidisciplinary process of earthquake resistant design and risk reduction. It deals with earthquake-resistant structures, such as, buildings, bridges and liquid storage tanks. The book covers seismic-resistance design of masonry and reinforced concrete structures to be constructed as well as safety assessment, strengthening and rehabilitation of existing structures against earthquake loads. This book will be of invaluable reference and guiding tool to practicing civil and structural engineers and architects, research and postgraduate students in earthquake engineering and engineering seismology, local governments and risk management officials.
Maya Halcomb holds Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Public Technological University, Varna. She is a Visiting Professor at a State University, Bryansk. She has contributed several articles and research papers on earthquake ground motion and seismic hazard, earthquake moment tensor solutions, and ambient noise measurements on soil. She has also co-edited over 80 books on earthquake engineering and geotechnical engineering. Her research interest areas are earthquake resistant structure design and seismology.
