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Seismic Design Principles

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Seismic Design Guidelines

Explores seismic design guidelines for buildings, emphasizing simplicity, regularity, and structural strength to ensure safety and robustness.

Seismic Assessment: SIA 269/8

Covers seismic assessment, retrofitting, compliance factors, and risk evaluation, with case studies and cost implications.

Conceptual Seismic Design: Guidelines and Principles

Explores the principles of conceptual seismic design for new buildings, emphasizing simplicity, compactness, and structural integrity.

Response Spectrum Method

Covers the Response Spectrum Method and its combination rules, emphasizing effective modal mass and maximum absolute responses.

Inelastic SDOF: Response and Design

Explores the response and design of inelastic SDOF systems under seismic forces, including force capacity, displacement ductility, and shear strength estimation.

Failure modes: URM structures & RC frames with URM infills

Explores the failure modes of URM structures and RC frames with URM infills.

Seismic design: Conventional vs. Capacity design

Explores seismic design principles, including conventional and capacity design of structures, failure modes, and plastic mechanisms.

Relationship between R and Ductility

Delves into the relationship between R and ductility in seismic engineering, focusing on inelastic response spectra.

Seismic Design Methods: Response Spectrum vs Equivalent Lateral Force

Compares force-based seismic design methods: response spectrum vs equivalent lateral force, explaining peak forces and displacements estimation during earthquakes.

Plastic hinge method

Explains the plastic hinge method for estimating inelastic deformation capacity in structural elements, focusing on flexural deformations and providing good approximations.

Seismic Engineering Fundamentals

Introduces seismic engineering fundamentals, covering failure modes, design, evaluation, and comparison of linear and nonlinear systems.

Seismic Assessment: SIA 269/8

Covers the risk-based seismic assessment using Swiss Standard SIA 269/8, emphasizing cost-effective interventions and evaluation of individual and collective risks.

Seismic Design of Structures: Course Objectives

Explores seismic design objectives, emphasizing deformation capacity, engineer tasks, and structural evaluation methods.

Plastic Hinge Analysis

Explores the plastic hinge method, moment-curvature analysis, and force-displacement response construction in structures.

Displacement-based Evaluation: N2 Method

Introduces the N2 method for evaluating structures during earthquakes and covers seismic demand, safety factors, and response spectra.

Seismic Retrofitting Strategies

Explores seismic retrofitting strategies in Switzerland, showcasing case studies of various buildings and discussing retrofitting costs and techniques.

Seismic Behaviour of Unreinforced Masonry Buildings

Explores the seismic vulnerability and behavior of unreinforced masonry buildings, covering failure modes, structural features, and in-plane behavior.

Capacity Design of RC Walls

Covers the capacity design of reinforced concrete walls in 10 steps, emphasizing overstrength and ductility.

Inelastic Response Spectra: Design Codes

Explores inelastic response spectra in seismic design codes, including behaviour factors, detailing rules, and design spectra.