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Reducing the Seismic Vulnerability of Existing Buildings Assessment and Retrofit
  • Author : Tiago Miguel Ferreira
  • Release Date : 31 July 2019
  • Publisher : MDPI
  • Genre : Technology & Engineering
  • Pages : 182
  • ISBN 13 : 9783039212576
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Book Description: This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue Reducing the Seismic Vulnerability of Existing Buildings: Assessment and Retrofit that was published in Buildings

Reducing the Seismic Vulnerability of Existing Buildings Assessment and Retrofit

Reducing the Seismic Vulnerability of Existing Buildings Assessment and Retrofit

Author : Tiago Miguel Ferreira,Nuno Mendes,Rui Silva
Publisher : Unknown
Genre : Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
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Devastating seismic events occurring all over the world keep raising the awareness of the scientific, technical and political communities to the need of identifying assets at risk and developing more effective and cost-efficient seismic risk mitigation strategies. Significant advances in earthquake engineering research have been achieved with the rise of ...

Seismic Assessment and Rehabilitation of Existing Buildings

Seismic Assessment and Rehabilitation of Existing Buildings

Author : Syed Tanvir Wasti,Güney Özcebe
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Genre : Technology & Engineering
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The present volume contains a total of 23 papers centred on the research area of Seismic Assessment and Rehabilitation of Existing Buildings. This subject also forms the core of Project SfP977231, sponsored by the NATO Science for Peace Office and supported by the Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey [ TUBIT ...

Structural Rehabilitation of Old Buildings

Structural Rehabilitation of Old Buildings

Author : Aníbal Costa,João Miranda Guedes,Humberto Varum
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Genre : Technology & Engineering
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This present book describes the different construction systems and structural materials and elements within the main buildings typologies, and it analyses the particularities of each of them, including, at the end, general aspects concerning laboratory and in-situ testing, numerical modeling, vulnerability assessment and construction maintenance....

Seismic Evaluation of Existing Buildings

Seismic Evaluation of Existing Buildings

Author : American Society of Civil Engineers
Publisher : Amer Society of Civil Engineers
Genre : Technology & Engineering
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Provides a three-tiered process for seismic evaluation of existing buildings in any level of seismicity. This standard is intended to serve as a nationally applicable tool for design professionals, code officials, and building owners looking to seismically evaluate existing buildings. It considers various aspects of building performance....

Seismic Risk Assessment and Retrofitting

Seismic Risk Assessment and Retrofitting

Author : Alper Ilki,Faruk Karadogan,Sumru Pala,Ercan Yuksel
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Genre : Technology & Engineering
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Many more people are coming to live in earthquake-prone areas, especially urban ones. Many such areas contain low-rise, low-cost housing, while little money is available to retrofit the buildings to avoid total collapse and thus potentially save lives. The lack of money, especially in developing countries, is exacerbated by difficulties ...

Seismic Vulnerability Assessment of Civil Engineering Structures at Multiple Scales

Seismic Vulnerability Assessment of Civil Engineering Structures at Multiple Scales

Author : Tiago Miguel Ferreira,Hugo Rodrigues
Publisher : Woodhead Publishing
Genre : Technology & Engineering
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Seismic Vulnerability Assessment of Civil Engineering Structures at Multiple Scales: From Single Buildings to Large-Scale Assessment provides an integrated, multiscale platform for fundamental and applied studies on the seismic vulnerability assessment of civil engineering structures, including buildings with different materials and building typologies. The book shows how various outputs obtained ...

Seismic Assessment and Retrofit of Reinforced Concrete Buildings

Seismic Assessment and Retrofit of Reinforced Concrete Buildings

Author : fib Fédération internationale du béton
Publisher : fib Fédération internationale du béton
Genre : Technology & Engineering
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In most parts of the developed world, the building stock and the civil infrastructure are ageing and in constant need of maintenance, repair and upgrading. Moreover, in the light of our current knowledge and of modern codes, the majority of buildings stock and other types of structures in many parts ...

Advances in Earthquake Engineering for Urban Risk Reduction

Advances in Earthquake Engineering for Urban Risk Reduction

Author : S. Tanvir Wasti,Guney Ozcebe
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Genre : Science
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Earthquakes affecting urban areas can lead to catastrophic situations and hazard mitigation requires preparatory measures at all levels. Structural assessment is the diagnosis of the seismic health of buildings. Assessment is the prelude to decisions about rehabilitation or even demolition. The scale of the problem in dense urban settings brings ...

Earthquake Science and Seismic Risk Reduction

Earthquake Science and Seismic Risk Reduction

Author : F. Mulargia,R.J. Geller
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Genre : Science
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What is the first thing that ordinary people, for whom journalists are the proxy, ask when they meet a seismologist? It is certainly nothing technical like "What was the stress drop of the last earthquake in the Imperial Valley?" It is a sim ple question, which nevertheless summarizes the real ...

Advanced Design Examples of Seismic Retrofit of Structures

Advanced Design Examples of Seismic Retrofit of Structures

Author : Mohammad Yekrangnia
Publisher : Butterworth-Heinemann
Genre : Technology & Engineering
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Advanced Design Examples of Seismic Retrofit of Structures provides insights on the problems associated with the seismic retrofitting of existing structures. The authors present various international case studies of seismic retrofitting projects and the different possible strategies on how to handle complex problems encountered. Users will find tactics on a ...

Advances in Geotechnics and Structural Engineering

Advances in Geotechnics and Structural Engineering

Author : Sanjay Kumar Shukla,Sudharshan N. Raman,Bishwajit Bhattacharjee,J. Bhattacharjee
Publisher : Springer Nature
Genre : Science
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This book comprises select proceedings of the International Conference on Trends and Recent Advances in Civil Engineering (TRACE 2020). The book focuses on the latest research developments in structural engineering, structural health monitoring, rehabilitation and retrofitting of structures, geotechnical engineering, and earthquake-resistant structures. The contents also cover the latest innovations in ...

Handbook of Seismic Risk Analysis and Management of Civil Infrastructure Systems

Handbook of Seismic Risk Analysis and Management of Civil Infrastructure Systems

Author : S Tesfamariam,K Goda
Publisher : Elsevier
Genre : Science
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Earthquakes represent a major risk to buildings, bridges and other civil infrastructure systems, causing catastrophic loss to modern society. Handbook of seismic risk analysis and management of civil infrastructure systems reviews the state of the art in the seismic risk analysis and management of civil infrastructure systems. Part one reviews ...