Advances in Earthquake Engineering for Urban Risk Reduction
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Beschreibung
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 about a need for macro seismic appraisal procedures because large numbers of existing buildings do not conform to the increased requirements of new earthquake codes and specifications or have other deficiencies. It is the vulnerable buildings - liable to cause damage and loss of life - that need immediate attention and urgent appraisal in order to decide if structural rehabilitation and upgrading are feasible. Current economic, efficient and occupant-friendly rehabilitation techniques vary widely and include the application either of precast concrete panels or layers, strips and patches of fiber reinforced polymers (FRP) in strategic locations. The papers in this book, many by renowned authorities in earthquake engineering, chart new and vital directions of research and application in the assessment and rehabilitation of buildings in seismic regions. While several papers discuss the probabilistic prediction and quantification of structural damage, others present approaches related with the in-situ and occupant friendly upgrading of buildings and propose both economical and practical techniques to address the problem.
Identifies seismic assessment and rehabilitation problems and proposes practical user-friendly solutions Offers a global, code-independent, cutting-edge analytical evaluation of seismic structural topics Introduces Fibre Reinforced Polymer, Panel and other retrofit techniques validated in North America, Europe, Japan and the Balkans Incorporates numerical and graphical results from sophisticated experimental investigations including shaking table tests Presents in one volume innovative methods enabling structural system improvement that will appeal to researchers, designers and practicising engineers
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S. Tanvir Wasti
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From the reviews:
"The papers in this book, which constitute the proceedings of the NATO Science for Peace Workshop on Advances in Earthquake Engineering for Urban Risk Reduction … chart new directions of research and application in the assessment and rehabilitation of buildings in seismically active regions, with an emphasis on dense, urban settings. … The intended audience includes earthquake engineers, building officials and contractors, municipal authorities, and graduate students." (Natural Hazards Observer, March, 2007)
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