Seismic Assessment and Rehabilitation of Existing Buildings (NATO Science Series: IV: Earth and Environmental Sciences - Couverture souple

 
9781402016257: Seismic Assessment and Rehabilitation of Existing Buildings (NATO Science Series: IV: Earth and Environmental Sciences
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ISBN 10 : 1402016255 ISBN 13 : 9781402016257
Editeur : Springer, 2003

Synopsis

This book will appeal to specialist engineers with enquiring minds and, in a broader sense, to all who live in buildings, especially those in a seismically active region. While the continual development of building codes permits the design of new construction to resist earthquake loads more effectively, a major problem is that buildings which may once have conformed to past seismic codes become structurally unacceptable according to today's codes and need upgrading or 'retrofitting' Poor construction methods also result in buildings that do not conform to any codes. Existing 'vulnerable' buildings that require strengthening in earthquake-prone countries immensely outnumber all recent construction. The 'health' of buildings thus requires assessment and rehabilitation. Seismic assessment ranges from the cataloguing of 'danger symptoms' in individual buildings to structural analyses involving finite element procedures and refined statistical analyses incorporating expert systems, stochastic processes and predictions from available databases. Structures have to be rendered fit for earthquakes, and this book goes a long way towards showing why and how, offering the results of cutting-edge research in the area and presenting innovative methods that enable system improvement while the structure remains in use.

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This book will appeal to specialist engineers with enquiring minds and, in a broader sense, to all who live in buildings, especially those in a seismically active region. While the continual development of building codes permits the design of new construction to resist earthquake loads more effectively, a major problem is that buildings which may once have conformed to past seismic codes become structurally unacceptable according to today's codes and need upgrading or 'retrofitting' Poor construction methods also result in buildings that do not conform to any codes. Existing 'vulnerable' buildings that require strengthening in earthquake-prone countries immensely outnumber all recent construction. The 'health' of buildings thus requires assessment and rehabilitation. Seismic assessment ranges from the cataloguing of 'danger symptoms' in individual buildings to structural analyses involving finite element procedures and refined statistical analyses incorporating expert systems, stochastic processes and predictions from available databases. Structures have to be rendered fit for earthquakes, and this book goes a long way towards showing why and how, offering the results of cutting-edge research in the area and presenting innovative methods that enable system improvement while the structure remains in use.

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Éditeur
Springer
Date d'édition
2003
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1402016255
ISBN 13 
9781402016257
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
568
Éditeur
Wasti S. Tanvir
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ISBN 10 :  1402016247 ISBN 13 :  9781402016240
Editeur : Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003
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