- Principles of earthquake resistant design of structures.
- Structural types and modelling techniques for seismic design.
- Ductility, damage and their influence to the behaviour factor in seismic design.
- Basic principles for performance based seismic design.
- Mathematical models simulating non-linear hysteretic behaviour for various types of structural elements, infill walls and foundations.
- Methods of static and dynamic linear and non-linear structural analysis.
- Numerical methods for analysis of non-linear structural systems.
- Characteristics examples of seismic response analysis of structures.
Advanced structural analysis for earthquake engineering
- Institution:
- University of Patras
- Specialization:
- EE - Earthquake Engineering
- Term:
- Fall 2012
- Teacher(s):
- NIKITAS BAZEOS
- Credits:
- 8
- Date (from - to):
- 03/10/2012 – 10/02/2013
Suggested readings:
Chapters 1, 7 and 8 from Computer Analysis and Design of Earthquake Resistant Structures: A Handbook, editors D.E. Beskos and S.A. Anagnostopoulos, Computational Mechanics Publications