Gueguen Seismic Vulnerability of Structures

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-118-60396-3
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 368 Seiten, E-Book

This book is focused on the seismic vulnerability assessmentmethods, applied to existing buildings, describing severalbehaviors and new approaches for assessment on a large scale (urbanarea).
It is clear that the majority of urban centers are composed of oldbuildings, designed according to concepts and rules that areinadequate to the seismic context. How to assess the vulnerabilityof existing buildings is an essential step to improve themanagement of seismic risk and its prevention policy. After somekey reminders, this book describes seismic vulnerability methodsapplied to a large number of structures (buildings and bridges) inmoderate (France, Switzerland) and strong seismic prone regions(Italy, Greece).
Contents
1. Seismic Vulnerability of Existing Buildings: Observationaland Mechanical Approaches for Application in Urban Areas, SergioLagomarsino and Serena Cattari.
2. Mechanical Methods: Fragility Curves and Pushover Analysis,Caterina Negulescu and Pierre Gehl.
3. Seismic Vulnerability and Loss Assessment for Buildings inGreece, Andreas J. Kappos.
4. Experimental Method: Contribution of Ambient VibrationRecordings to the Vulnerability Assessment, Clotaire Michel andPhilippe Guéguen.
5. Numerical Model: Simplified Strategies for Vulnerability SeismicAssessment of Existing Structures, Cédric Desprez, PanagiotisKotronis and Stéphane Grange.
6. Approach Based on the Risk Used in Switzerland, PierinoLestuzzi.
7. Preliminary Evaluation of the Seismic Vulnerability of ExistingBridges, Denis Davi.
About the Authors
Philippe Guéguen is a Senior IFSTTAR Researcher at ISTerre,Joseph Fourier University Grenoble 1, France

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gueguen, Philippe

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Chapter 1 - Seismic vulnerability of existing buildings: observational and mechanical approaches for application in urban areas
Chapter 2 - Mechanical methods: fragility curves and push-over methods
Chapter 3 - Seismic vulnerability and loss assessment for buildings in Greece
Chapter 4 - Experimental method: input of the recordings of ambient vibrations for the study of seismic vulnerability of the existing buildings
Chapter 5 - Numerical methods: simplified modelling strategy for the evaluation of the seismic vulnerability of existing structures
Chapter 6 - Approach based on the risk used in Switzerland
Chapter 7 - Preliminary evaluation of the seismic vulnerability of existing bridges