Bridge Engineering: Seismic Design, W.F. Chen

Bridge Engineering: Seismic Design by W.F. Chen and Lian Duan offers ideas and programs of seismic design, from the important geotechnical and dynamic evaluation background to seismic isolation and power dissipation, active manage, and retrofit technologies. In-depth discussions contributed by bridge and earthquake engineers from around the globe cover the types and effects of earthquake harm and structural performance requirements.

The book also consists of reviews of seismic design techniques in Japan, such as a research from the damage to freeway bridges brought on by the Hyogo-ken Nanbu earthquake along with the adjustments in retrofit procedures precipitated by that earthquake.

Authors involve manual to identify the failure modes plus the design limit states of bridge piers and also to supply the progressive collapse sequence of broken bridges when subjected to main earthquakes. This book fills the want for any total reference on pushover analysis for practicing engineers.

Bridge Engineering: Seismic Design covers the pushover evaluation of reinforced concrete and steel bridges with confined and unconfined concrete column members of circular or rectangular cross sections at the same time as metal members of regular designs. It offers step-by-step procedures for pushover evaluation with a variety of nonlinear member stiffness formulations, including finite segment-finite string (FSFS) and finite segment-moment curvature (FSMC).

Quite a few real-world examples demonstrate the accuracy of analytical prediction by evaluating numerical results with full- or large-scale check outcomes. Bridge Engineering: Seismic Design is useful reference for scientists and engineers operating in structural engineering.

Bridge Engineering: Seismic Design

W.F. Chen and Lian Duan
CRC Press; 1 edition
480 pages

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