Improving the Earthquake Resilience of Buildings : The worst case approach - Takewaki, Izuru; Moustafa, Abbas; Fujita, Kohei; SpringerLink (Online service) (London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer, 2013)
1 Introduction -- 2. Earthquake resilience of high-rise buildings: Case study of the 2011 Tohoku (Japan) earthquake -- 3. Simulation of near-field pulse-like ground motion -- 4. Critical characterization and modeling of pulse-like near-field strong ground motion -- 5. Characteristics of earthquake ground motion of repeated sequences -- 6. Modeling critical ground-motion sequences for inelastic structures -- 7. Response of Nonlinear SDOF Structures to Random Acceleration Sequences -- 8. Use of deterministic and probabilistic measures to identify unfavorable earthquake records -- 9. Damage Assessment to Inelastic Structure Under Worst Earthquake Loads -- 10 Critical earthquake loads for SDOF inelastic structures considering evolution of seismic waves -- 11. Critical Correlation of Bi-Directional Horizontal Ground Motions -- 12. Optimal placement of viscoelastic dampers and supporting members under variable critical excitations -- 13 Earthquake response bound analysis of uncertain passively controlled buildings for robustness evaluation -- 14 Earthquake response bound analysis of uncertain base-isolated buildings for robustness evaluation -- 15. Future Directions.
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