This book provides comprehensive, practical and easy to read advice for all engineers, designers and analysts of earthquake resistant structures. The entire text is completely revised to account for the many developments that have taken place since the publication of the best-selling first edition in 1988. This includes advances in the understanding of how structures and the soils that support them respond to ground shaking, development of new robust forms of earthquake resistant construction, and improved forms of analysis and assessment.
Biographies
Preface
Chapter 1 : Causes and Effects of Structural Vibration
Chapter 2 : Equivalent one Degree-of-Freedom Systems
Chapter 3 : Free Vibration of One Degree-of-Freedom Systems
Chapter 4 : Forced Harmonic Vibration of One Degree-of-Freedom Systems
Chapter 5 : Evaluation of Equivalent Viscous Damping Coefficients by Harmonic Excitation
Chapter 6 : Response of Linear and Non-Linear One Degree-of-Freedom Systems to Random Loading : Time Domain Analysis
Chapter 7 : Free Vibration of Multi-Degree-of-Freedom Systems
Chapter 8 : Forced Harmonic Vibration of Multi-Degree-of-Freedom Systems
Chapter 9 : Damping Matrices for Multi-Degree-of-Freedom Systems
Chapter 10 : The Nature and Statistical Properties of Wind
Chapter 11 : Dynamic Response to Turbulent Wind : Frequency-Domain Analysis
Chapter 12 : The Nature and Properties of Earthquakes
Chapter 13 : Dynamic Response to Earthquakes : Frequency-Domain Analysis
Chapter 14 : Generation of Wind and Earthquake Histories
Index
