Moderate to severe earthquakes can cause vast damage to buildings and their foundations, endangering the lives of residents and leading to complex and costly search, rescue, and clean-up efforts. Seismic Retrofit of Buildings provides in-demand information on state-of-the-art technology and materials that are reshaping the field, with a particular focus on prefabricated, moment-resisting steel portal frames.
The book’s gradual introduction of performance-based plastic design concepts primes readers for the acquisition of in-depth technical competence in the implementation of solutions that not only improve the overall safety of a structure in the event of life-threatening ground motions but also offer advantages of both cost-effective and practical resilience significance. Rehabilitation issues, specialized techniques, considerations related to aesthetic appeal, construction drawings, functional detailing, photos from real-life projects, and other practice-informed insights are all included to make up a carefully composed and balanced reference resource that is of value for audiences in both academia and industry.
1. Title of Book - p. i 2. Cover image - p. i 3. Title page - p. ii 4. Table of Contents - p. iii 5. Copyright - p. iv 6. Preface - p. vii 7. 1. Inserting portal frames in buildings - p. 1 8. 2. Plastic behavior of flexural members - p. 25 9. 3. Collapse of beams and portal frames - p. 43 10. 4. Pushover and time history analyses of portal frames - p. 69 11. 5. Detailing techniques - p. 97 12. 6. Installation and architectural aspects of portal frames - p. 135 13. 7. Initial structural drawings - p. 155 14. Appendix A. Answers to supplementary questions - p. 177 15. Appendix B. Step-by-step procedure for pushover and linear time history analyses - p. 181 16. Index - p. 215
Moderate to severe earthquakes can cause vast damage to buildings and their foundations, endangering the lives of residents and leading to complex and costly search, rescue, and clean-up efforts. Seismic Retrofit of Buildings provides in-demand information on state-of-the-art technology and materials that are reshaping the field, with a particular focus on prefabricated, moment-resisting steel portal frames.
The book’s gradual introduction of performance-based plastic design concepts primes readers for the acquisition of in-depth technical competence in the implementation of solutions that not only improve the overall safety of a structure in the event of life-threatening ground motions but also offer advantages of both cost-effective and practical resilience significance. Rehabilitation issues, specialized techniques, considerations related to aesthetic appeal, construction drawings, functional detailing, photos from real-life projects, and other practice-informed insights are all included to make up a carefully composed and balanced reference resource that is of value for audiences in both academia and industry.
1. Title of Book - p. i 2. Cover image - p. i 3. Title page - p. ii 4. Table of Contents - p. iii 5. Copyright - p. iv 6. Preface - p. vii 7. 1. Inserting portal frames in buildings - p. 1 8. 2. Plastic behavior of flexural members - p. 25 9. 3. Collapse of beams and portal frames - p. 43 10. 4. Pushover and time history analyses of portal frames - p. 69 11. 5. Detailing techniques - p. 97 12. 6. Installation and architectural aspects of portal frames - p. 135 13. 7. Initial structural drawings - p. 155 14. Appendix A. Answers to supplementary questions - p. 177 15. Appendix B. Step-by-step procedure for pushover and linear time history analyses - p. 181 16. Index - p. 215
