Advanced Earthquake Engineering Analysis
Invited Lecturers
- Pierre-Yves Bard (LGIT/Grenoble, Grenoble Cedex, France)
3 lectures on:
Measurement, characterization and prediction of ground motions, trends about new instruments; physics of earthquake signals, source effect, empirical Green functions; site effects, surface topography effects, microzonation.- Gian Michele Calvi (Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy)
2 lectures on:
Strength & deformation capacity of structural materials, ductile and brittle mode of failures, common fallacies in seismic design; Design and assessment of bridges, ductility and drift capacity of piers, isolation systems.- Alain Pecker (, Bagneux, France)
3 lecures on:
Soil behaviour under cyclic loading, non linear behavior, measurements of soil properties; Seismic bearing capacity of foundations, detailing of foundations; Displacement based design of foundation, fundamentals of soil structure interaction, dynamic macro element.- Rui Pinho (Universita' di Pavia, Pavia , Italy)
4 lectures on:
Modelling of non linear inelastic structural response, source of non linearity, analysis methods and range of applicability, plastic hinge analysis, fibre analysis; Overview and application of nonlinear time-history analysis, selection of time histories, numerical integration algorithms; Overview and application of nonlinear static analysis (pushover), loading vector and control procedures, algorithms, three dimensional pushover, difficulties and shortcomings.- M.J. Nigel Priestley ( , Ilyllwild CA 92549, USA)
3 lectures on:
Need for displacement-based design, design for strength, ductility and displacement, common fallacies; Fundamentals of direct displacement-based design and assessment, seismic action for displacement based design, concept of equivalent stiffness and damping, capacity design; Design and assessment of buildings, frame, wall and dual structures, estimate of displacement and dissipation capacity, prediction of damage and collapse.- Pierre Sollogoub (CEA Direction Energie Nucleare, Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France)
3 lectures on:
Introduction to seismic testing, description of testing devices (in situ, pseudo dynamic reaction wall, centrifuge, shaking table), similarity laws for scaled models instrumentation; Shaking table and pseudo dynamic testing; Real time control in dynamic testing, dynamic substructuring, network of laboratories.