Publisher's Synopsis
The structural engineering profession has adopted performance-based seismic design of structures and evaluation of existing structures for almost 20 years, which involves estimating the seismic response of the structure accurately using simple methods. Current trends in building code development bring a major challenge in this context by shifting away from traditional elastic analysis of structures to nonlinear static and dynamic procedures. This book provides a state-of-the-art, easy to read insight into the seismic design of new and retrofit of existing building structures. Questions and problems are included at the end of each chapter to reinforce knowledge, and an entire chapter of case studies gives the book real-world applications. Students and graduates of civil engineering courses who would like to pursue a career in structural engineering will find this an essential text when they are in school, and a must-own reference book when they are in design office.
