EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES

To give students an appreciation of the special requirements for design of structures subject to dynamic effects, particularly earthquake loading. This will include:

further topics in structural dynamics that relate to earthquake engineering

basics of load effect in earthquake engineering

design and calculation of earthquake resistant structures

experience of structural behaviour under earthquake loading

SYLLABUS

Structural dynamics -- basics (5 lectures 1 tutorial) Dr. A. J. Bell

Generalised single degree-of-freedom systems. Vibration analysis by Rayleigh’s method, Calculation of free vibration of multi-degrees-of-freedom systems. Response to general dynamics loads.

Structural dynamics – special topics (1 lectures) Dr. T. Ji

Dynamic testing.

Earthquake engineering – seismotectonics (4 lectures) Prof. E. H. Rutter

Seismological background. Surface ground motions. Seismic hazards and how to deal with them. The USA National Earthquake Hazard Reduction program.

Earthquake engineering – concepts and methods (8 lecturers 2 tutorials) Dr. T. Ji

Introduction. Earthquake resistant design philosophy. Calculation of seismic response of single degree-of-freedom elastic systems and multi- degrees-of-freedom elastic systems. Basics of designing loading. Spectrum method. Eurocode 8. Structural control.

Earthquake engineering - concrete and masonry structures (5 lectures 1 tutorial) Prof. M. E. Phipps

Behaviour and design of concrete and masonry structures under earthquake loading.

Earthquake engineering - offshore structures and steel structures (5 lectures 1 tutorial) Prof. F. M. Burdekin

Basic principles of earthquake design of offshore structures based on the USA methodology. General experience of earthquake performance of steel structures in Northridge and Kobe.

Earthquake engineering - design practice and site investigation (3 Lectures) Dr. A. Mann

Design practice of earthquake resistant structures. Site investigation in Kobe

ASSESSMENT

A two-hour examination, answer three questions from five. Three pieces of coursework.

Examination 80%, coursework 20%