Earthquake Engineering | Faculty of Technical Sciences

Subject: Earthquake Engineering (17.GD013)

Type of studies	Title
Doctoral Academic Studies	Civil Engineering (Year: 1, Semester: Summer)

General information:

Category	Scientific-professional
Scientific or art field	Theory of Construction
ECTS	10

Expending fundamental knowledge in the area of earthquake engineering, aseismic design of construction structures and seismic risk management.

Enabling students to apply contemporary methods for structure calculations for earthquake action and design seismically resistant structures in construction practice.

Survey on earthquake action: respond spectres and accelerograms. Elastic, designed and nonlinear response spectres. Determining design loads. behaviour analysis for materials, elements and structures under the action simulating earthquakes. Breakage type control. Analysis of structures under seismic action: systems with one- and multiple-degree of freedom, linear elastic and nonlinear calculation models, equivalent static analysis, spectral analysis, and time analysis. Survey of innovative procedures for calculation structures for earthquake action: capacity method, design according to movements, and design based on performance estimation. Fundamentals in design according to contemporary regulations – Eurocode 8, FEMA 278. Main principles in designing seismically resistant structures. Selection of structural systems. Programmed behaviour method. Insulation and energy dissipation concept. Seismic insulation for buildings and bridges.

Interactive work with students with the objective to continually monitor students` knowledge level. Theoretical analysis on phenomena included in the course content and numerical modelling. The course prerequisites the elaboration and defence of a seminar paper.

Authors	Title	Year	Publisher	Language
Sullivan T., Priestley N., Calvi G.	Seismic Design of Frame-Wall Structures	2003	IUSS Press, Pavia, Italy	English
Wilson E.L.	Three-Dimensional Static and Dynamic Analysis of Structures	2002	CSI, Berkeley	English
Bathe K.J.	Finite Element Procedures	1996	Prentice Hall	English
Chopra A.K.	Dynamics of Structures – Theory and Applications to Earthquake Engineering	2017	Prentice Hall	English
Pinto P.E, Giannini R., Franchin P.	Seismic Reliability Analysis of Structures	2004	IUSS Press, Pavia - Italy	English
Paulay T., Priestley M.J.N.	Seismic Design of Reinforced Concrete and Masonry Buildings	1992	John Wiley & Sons, Inc.	English
Kyriazis Pitilakis, Editor	Recent Advancews in Earthquake Engineering in Europe	2018	Springer	English
Elnashai, A.S., Di Sarno, L.	Fundamentals of Earthquake Engineering	2008	Wiley	English
Alain Pecker	Advanced Earthquake Engineering Analysis	2007	Springer Wien New York	English