Increasing seismic safety by combining engineering technologies and seismological data: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Increasing Seismic Safety by Combining Engineering Technologies and Seismological Data, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 19-21 September 2007

Too often the Earth’s surface acted as a divide between seismologists and engineers. Now it is becoming clear that the building behaviour largely depends on the seismic input and the buildings on their turn act as seismic sources, inan intricate interplay that non-linear phenomena make even more complex. These phenomena are often the cause of observed damage enhancement during past earthquakes. While research may pursue complex models to fully understand soil dynamics under seismic loading, we need also simple models valid on average, whose results can be easily transferred to end users. Under the title ‘IncreasingSeismic Safety by Combining Engineering Technologies and Seismological Data’,we grouped several topics to be discussed together by engineers and seismologists: (1) Can we use ambient noise building and soil characterisation to extract useful information for engineers? (2) How we can tell apart a frequency decrease due to distributed damage, concentrated damage, time- varying building and soil behaviour?. Joint discussion and conclusions between seismologists andengineers Case histories focused on less expensive techniques Updated state of the art with reference to most recent experience in different countries INDICE: From the contents Introduction. Group picture, Participants sketches and names.- 1. The Use of Ambient Noise for Building and Soil Characterisation.- 2. Effect of Buildings on Free-Field Ground Motion.- 3. Role of Dynamic Properties on Building Vulnerability.- 4. State of the Art - Recent Advances and Applications.- Conclusions.

• ISBN: 978-1-4020-9193-3
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 450
• Fecha Publicación: 01/11/2008
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés