Perspectives on European Earthquake Engineering and Seismology : Volume 1 - Ansal, Atilla; SpringerLink (Online service) (Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014)
Preface -- 1. The Full-Scale Laboratory: The Practice of Post-Earthquake Reconnaissance Missions and Their Contribution to Earthquake Engineering -- 2. Rapid Earthquake Loss Assessment after Damaging Earthquakes -- 3. Existing Buildings: The New Italian Provisions for Probabilistic Seismic Assessment -- 4. Seismic Response of Precast Industrial Buildings -- 5. The Role of Site Effects at The Boundary Between Seismology and Engineering: Lessons from Recent Earthquakes -- 6. Seismic Analysis and Design of Bridges with an Emphasis to Eurocode Standards -- 7. From Performance- and Displacement-Based Assessment of Existing Buildings per EN1998-3 to Design of New Concrete Structures in Fib MC2010 -- 8. Testing Historic Masonry Structural Elements and/or Building Models -- 9. Earthquake Risk Reduction: From Scenario Simulators Including Systemic Interdependency to Impact Indicators -- 10. Physics-Based Earthquake Ground Shaking Scenarios in Large Urban Areas -- 11. A Seismic Performance Classification Framework to Provide Increased Seismic Resilience -- 12. Towards Displacement-Based Seismic Design of Modern Unreinforced Masonry Structures -- 13. Pushover Analysis for Plan Irregular Building Structures -- 14. Recent Development and Application of Seismic Isolation and Energy Dissipation and Conditions for Their Correct Use -- 15. Conservation Principles and Performance-Based Strengthening of Heritage Buildings in Post-Event Reconstruction -- 16. Earthquake Risk Assessment: Present Shortcomings and Future Directions -- 17. The Role of Pile Diameter on Earthquake-Induced Bending -- 18. Predictive Models for Earthquake Response of Clay and Quick Clay Slopes.- 19. Recent Advances in Seismic Soil Liquefaction Engineering -- 20. Seismic Hazard and Seismic Design and Safety Aspects of Large Dam Projects.
Keywords: Civil engineering; Natural disasters; Geotechnical engineering; Civil Engineering; Natural Hazards; Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences