Books in the Advances in Earthquake Engineering series

This volume explores seismic isolation as an alternative and performance-based design approach to minimize earthquake induced loads and resulting damage in low to medium-rise buildings. It demonstrates its capability to decouple a structure from the damaging effects of ground acceleration.

Nonlinear static monotonic (pushover) analysis has become a common practice for performance-based seismic bridge design. The popularity of pushover analysis is due to its ability to identify the failure modes and the design limit states of bridge piers and to provide the progressive collapse sequence of damaged bridges when subjected to major earthquakes. This book fills the need for a complete reference on pushover analysis for practicing engineers. Covering the simplest to the most sophisticated methods, this book includes step-by-step procedures. The authors also provide a computer program, INSTRUCT, that allows readers to perform their own analyses.

Describes important principles for dealing with the damping of structures to aid in the analysis and design of supplemental damping to mitigate seismic effects. This text also examines limitations and the problem of damping and stiffness nonlinearity, which may not be approximated with sufficient accuracy using the simplified approaches.

Nonlinear static monotonic (pushover) analysis has become a common practice for performance-based seismic bridge design. The popularity of pushover analysis is due to its ability to identify the failure modes and the design limit states of bridge piers and to provide the progressive collapse sequence of damaged bridges when subjected to major earthquakes. This book fills the need for a complete reference on pushover analysis for practicing engineers. Covering the simplest to the most sophisticated methods, this book includes step-by-step procedures. The authors also provide a computer program, INSTRUCT, that allows readers to perform their own analyses.