TY - BOOK AU - Takewaki,Izuru TI - Critical excitation methods in earthquake engineering SN - 9780080994291 (electronic bk.) AV - TA654.6 U1 - 624.1762 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Amsterdam PB - Butterworth-Heinemann KW - Earthquakes KW - Earthquake engineering KW - TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Civil / Earthquake KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1. Overview of seismic critical excitation method -- 2. Critical excitation for stationary and nonstationary random inputs -- 3. Critical excitation for nonproportionally damped structural systems -- 4. Critical excitation for acceleration response -- 5. Critical excitation for elastic-plastic response -- 6. Critical envelope function for nonstationary random earthquake input -- 7. Robust stiffness design for structure-dependent critical excitation -- 8. Critical excitation for earthquake energy input in SDOF system -- 9. Critical excitation for earthquake energy input in MDOF system -- 10. Critical excitation for earthquake energy input in soil-structure interaction system -- 11. Critical excitation for earthquake energy input in structure-pile-soil system -- 12. Critical excitation for earthquake energy input rate -- 13. Critical excitation for multi-component inputs -- 14. Critical excitation for elastic-plastic response using deterministic approach -- 15. Earthquake resilience evaluation of building structures with critical excitation methods N2 - This book introduces a new probabilistic and energy-based critical excitation approach to overcome several problems in the scientific and rational modelling of ground motions UR - http://148.231.10.114:2048/login?url=http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780080994369 ER -