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Seismic Design of Reinforced and Precast Concrete Buildings | ROBERT E. ENGLEKIRK | JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC. | 2003 | English | 853 p | pdf | 16.57 MB | ISBN : 0-471-08122-1 | Knowledge and imagination are essential components of the design process. Imagination without knowledge will quite often produce designs that are dangerous. Knowledge absent imagination can only produce designs of limited scope. The development and integration of these themes is the objective of this book.

Book Title

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Seismic Design of Reinforced and Precast
Concrete Buildings

Authors

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ROBERT E. ENGLEKIRK

Publisher

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JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC.

Year

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2003

Language

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English

Pages

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853 p

File Format

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pdf

File Size

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16.57 MB

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PREFACE

Knowledge and imagination are essential components of the design process. Imagination without knowledge will quite often produce designs that are dangerous. Knowledge absent imagination can only produce designs of limited scope. The development and integration of these themes is the objective of this book.

My hope is to advance the reader’s ability to design by reducing existing experimentally developed conclusions to design-relevant relationships and limit states. The reduction of experimental data to a usable form is essential to the design process because an engineer, faced with a design decision, cannot confidently develop a design approach from experiment data or basic principles as a part of each design, especially if the basic principle is not a part of his or her working vocabulary. Behavior models must also be available to and accepted by the designer.

INTRODUCTION

This book is primarily about design, which, as I use the term, is the creative process that seeks the proper blend of essential ingredients—specifically function, aesthetics, economy, and, in the context of this book, seismic behavior. There exists no single formula for creating a good design, for the design process involves making a set of decisions on issues for which no absolutely right answer exists. Thus the designer is continually seeking a comfortable rationally based design solution, and two identical solutions are not likely to be produced even successively by the same constructive designer.

Tools are essential to the completion of almost every task. I have tried to assemble, in as concise a form as possible, the tools necessary to the pursuit of a good design. From the extensive library of experimental efforts, I have selected representative works and demonstrated how both strength and deformation limit states might be predicted. Next, I review alternative design approaches and, in the process, simplify and adapt them to specific types of bracing systems. Finally I describe how designs might be comprehensively reviewed.

The focus of the book is concrete and the emphasis is on precast concrete. I have limited the scope to the satisfaction of seismic behavior objectives because the topic is complex and, though extensively studied and codified, not necessarily well understood by the structural design profession. The fact that seismic design can be reduced to an understandable level that can be creatively introduced into a building program makes it an ideal vehicle to study the design process.

Table of Contents

PREFACE

NOMENCLATURE

INTRODUCTION

1. BASIC CONCEPTS

1.1

Ductility—A System Behavior Enhancer

1.2

Confinement—A Component Behavior Enhancement

1.3

Shear

Selected References

2. COMPONENT BEHAVIOR AND DESIGN

2.1

Beams

2.2

The Beam Column

2.3

Beam-Column Joints

2.4

Shear Dominated Systems

Selected References

3. SYSTEM DESI

3.1

Shear Wall Braced Buildings

3.2

Frame Braced Buildings

3.3

Diaphragms

3.4

Design Process Overview

Selected References

4. DESIGN CONFIRMATION

4.1

Response of Shear Wall Braced Buildings to Ground Motion

4.2

Frame Braced Buildings

4.3

Behavior Imponderables

Selected References

INDEX

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