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Seismic Design: Past, Present and Future
In Seismic Design: Past, Present and Future, you'll learn ...
- The background and progression of structural seismic concepts
- The relative merits of the eight basic steel-frame designs that have been used in multi-story buildings
- The evolution of concrete building frameworks
- The use of building configurations and contemporary high-performance seismic mechanisms for energy dissipation
Overview
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Credit: 2 PDH
Length: 49 pages
Design of any building is a challenge for architects and engineers, and the challenge is made more complex when there is a need to provide for earthquake resistance.
During the past 100 years, seismic design philosophy and details have progressed from simply considering earthquakes to be the same as wind loads, to a sophisticated understanding of the phenomenon of the earthshaking that induces a building response.
This course covers the 100-year history of seismic structural systems, ranging from simple to sophisticated solutions. Basic structural behavior is outlined; guidance for selecting a good structural system is suggested, and relevant seismic issues are explored.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Summarize 100 years of structural seismic design.
- Compare historical and current structural seismic systems, from those used before the 1906 San Francisco earthquake to present-day systems.
- Identify the three main factors that have influenced the progression of seismic systems selected by structural engineers.
- Explain the variables that make selecting an appropriate seismic system difficult.
- Describe why a simple building-code approach to seismic design is often inadequate.
- Explain why excessive or insufficient lateral drift can result in seismic performance issues.
- Compare “pushover” performance results for six different structural systems in a four-story building.
- Explain why energy dissipation is an important factor in a building’s overall seismic performance.
- Describe energy-dissipating concepts developed in 1976 at the New Zealand National Laboratory.
- Analyze seismic performance characteristics, including nonlinear drift, energy dissipation, and cyclic behavior, for twenty different structural systems.
- Explain why building configuration frequently governs the ultimate seismic behavior of a structure.
Certificate of Completion
You will be able to immediately print a certificate of completion after passing a multiple-choice quiz consisting of 10 questions. PDH credits are not awarded until the course is completed and quiz is passed.
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Preview a portion of this course before purchasing it.
Credit: 2 PDH
Length: 49 pages
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