Advanced Earthquake Engineering Analysis
July 3, 2006 — July 7, 2006
Coordinator:
- Alain Pecker (, Bagneux, France)
During the last decade, the state of the art in Earthquake Engineering Design and Analysis has made significant steps towards a more rationale analysis of structures. Scientists have long recognized that earthquake design is guided by displacements and deformations rather than forces. However due to the historical background of structural engineers in static analyses, effects of earthquake on structures have been viewed as forces acting on the structures. All presently available design building codes are developed along these lines.
Our knowledge of ground motion characteristics, earthquake geotechnical engineering, structural behaviour (design and numerical analyses) and model tests have advanced to a point where it is possible to anticipate a significant move from force based design approaches to displacements based design approaches. Although displacement based analyses constitute the kernel of most research programs, they have not yet been incorporated in the state of practice.
The purpose of the course is to review the fundamentals of displacement based methods, starting from engineering seismology, earthquake geotechnical engineering, to focus on design, analysis and testing of structures with emphasis on buildings and bridges.
The five main topics listed above will be treated by six different lecturers. Each topic will start with a lecture intended to provide the attendees with the fundamentals and then three to four lectures in each topic will be devoted to advanced, state of the art, subjects. The lectures will be heavily illustrated with examples drawn from actual projects in which the lecturers are deeply involved.
The course is addressed to PhD students, post docs and experienced researchers in earthquake engineering who are willing to broaden their knowledge and be aware of the future trends in the field.