Concrete Buildings in Seismic Regions
Earthquake engineering is an independent scientific discipline that has come into being
along with engineering seismology over the past 100 years and is therefore still evolving,as happens in every new
scientific field.
lt started as a framework of codified rules for the seismic design of buildings at the begin-
ning ofthe twentieth century, after the catastrophic San Francisco earthquake of 1906.
This design procedure was based, on one hand,
on a framework of empirical rules for avoiding seismic damage observed in previous earthquakes, and on the other,
on the simulation of the seismic action on a set of lateral forces equal to a percentage of the gravity loads of the
building.
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Earthquake engineering is an independent scientific discipline that has come into being
along with engineering seismology over the past 100 years and is therefore still evolving,as happens in every new
scientific field.
lt started as a framework of codified rules for the seismic design of buildings at the begin-
ning ofthe twentieth century, after the catastrophic San Francisco earthquake of 1906.
This design procedure was based, on one hand,
on a framework of empirical rules for avoiding seismic damage observed in previous earthquakes, and on the other,
on the simulation of the seismic action on a set of lateral forces equal to a percentage of the gravity loads of the
building.
18.7MB
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