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This step-by-step approach to nonlinear structural dynamics and critical excitation transforms ground motion into impulses and by takes an energy balance approach. It can be used by practitioners for building and structural design, and is based on the energy balance law, and the concepts of kinetic and strain energies.
List of contents
1 Introduction
2 Critical earthquake response of an elastic-perfectly plastic SDOF model under double impulse as a representative of near-fault ground motions
3 Critical earthquake response of an elastic-perfectly plastic SDOF model under triple impulse as a representative of near-fault ground motions
4 Critical input and response of an elastic-perfectly plastic SDOF model under multi-impulse as a representative of long-duration earthquake ground motions
5 Critical earthquake response of an elastic-perfectly plastic SDOF model with viscous damping under double impulse
6 Critical steady-state response of a bilinear hysteretic SDOF model under multi-impulse
7 Critical earthquake response of an elastic-perfectly plastic SDOF model on compliant ground under double impulse
8 Closed-form dynamic collapse criterion for a bilinear hysteretic SDOF model under near-fault ground motions
9 Closed-form overturning limit of a rigid block as a SDOF model under near-fault ground motions
10 Critical earthquake response of a 2DOF elastic-perfectly plastic model under double impulse
11 Optimal viscous damper placement for an elastic-perfectly plastic MDOF building model under critical double impulse
12 Future directions
About the author
Izuru Takewaki is a professor of building structures at Kyoto University and president of the Architectural Institute of Japan.
Kotaro Kojima is an assistant professor of building structures at the Kyoto Institute of Technology.
Summary
This step-by-step approach to nonlinear structural dynamics and critical excitation transforms ground motion into impulses and by takes an energy balance approach. It can be used by practitioners for building and structural design, and is based on the energy balance law, and the concepts of kinetic and strain energies.
