Seismic Conceptual Design of Buildings – Basic principles for engineers, architects, building owners, and authorities





Author’s Preface

For a long time earthquake risk was considered

unavoidable. It was accepted that buildings would be

damaged as a result of an earthquake’s ground shaking.

Preventive measures for earthquakes were therefore

mostly limited to disaster management preparedness.

Although measures related to construction methods had already

been proposed at the beginning of the 20th century,

it is only during the last decades

that improved and intensified research

has revealed how to effectively reduce

the vulnerability of structures to earthquakes. The

objective of this document is to present recent

knowledge on earthquake protection measures for

buildings in a simple and easy to understand manner.


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