Class Id: 8079
Days: MW
Start Time: 11:00 AM
End Time: 12:20 PM
Building: FRIEN
Room: 202
Course Id: 3591
Departments and Numbers: CEE 514
Area:
Title: Earthquake Engineering
Description: Analysis of forces and deformations in structures under dynamic loads. Idealization as discrete parameter systems. Single and multiple degrees of freedom. Response analysis under free vibration, harmonic, periodic, impulsive, and general dynamic loads. Time and frequency domains. Distributed parameter systems. Earthquake phenomena from the engineering point of view. Faulting and seismic waves. Measurement of strong ground motion. Influence of geology. The concept of response spectra, structural response to earthquakes, and design criteria.
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Professors: Erik Vanmarcke
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