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Earthquake Engineering For Practicing Structural Engineers

A one-day course on structural dynamics

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Earthquake Engineering For Practicing Structural Engineers

A one-day course on structural dynamics

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STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS Earthquake Engineering for Practicing Structural Engineers A ONE-DAY COURSE INSTRUCTOR: ASHRAF HABIBULLAH COMPUTERS & STRUCTURES, INC. Presents A One-Day Short Course STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS Earthquake Engineering for Practicing Structural Engineers Instructor: Ashraf Habibullah, S.E. President and CEO, Computers & Structures, Inc. Berkeley, California, USA COURSE CONTENT INTRODUCTION Why this Seminar? Why Dynamics? ‘STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS ~ THE THEORY ‘The Very Basics ~ Newto Time Period and Circular Frequency ‘The Basic Slope Relationship between Displacement, Velocity and Acceleration ‘The Basle Dynamic Loading ~ Applied Loads and Earthquake Loads What Is s0 Special about a Single Dogroe of Freedom Systom = SDOFS? ‘The Basic Dynamic Equilibrlum Equation of a SDOFS Time History Analysis and the Closed Form Time History Solution for SDOFS What is a Response Spectrum Analysis? Response Spectrum Analysis as a Substitute for Time History Analysis ‘The Advantages of Response Spectrum over Time History ‘Types of Response Spectrum Curves ~ SD, PSV, PSA and ADRS ‘What Is Multi Degroe of Freedom Systam ~ MDOFS? What are Mode Shapes? ‘The Physical Significance of Mode Shapes ~ Eigen Vectors ‘Time History and Response Spectrum Analysis for MDOFS. ‘The Need for Modal Combination Techniques ~ SRSS, COC, GMC ‘The Magic of the Dynamic Directional SRSS Combination The Order of the Combination USING RESULTS FROM A DYNAMIC ANALYSIS IN DESIGN Number of Modes, Effective Mass and Mass Participation Factors ‘The Advantage of Ritz Vectors over Eigen Vectors! ‘Sealing of Results for Base Shear Design Using Time History Results ~ Design at Each Time Step Design Using Response Spectrum Results ~ Design at Each Mode ‘The Impact of Loss of Sign Rigid Diaphragm Floors and Semi Rigid or Foxible Diaphragm Floors Including the Effects of Accidental Torsion Integrated Design Forees from Section Cuts, Tateral vs Vertieal Dynamic Analysis: SPECIAL TOPICS Dynamies of Sloped Floors and Curved Shear Walls and Multiple Towers ‘Dynamics of Mezzanine Floors and Structural Appendages Generating Floor Response Spactra for Mechanical Equipment ‘Mult! Support Excitation with Time History & Response Spectrum ‘The Theory of Tuned Mass Dampers ‘The Problem with identical and Closely Spaced Frequencies: Including Live Load in the Dynamic Mase Including the P-Dolta otfecte In Dynamics ‘The Ritz Gased Wilson's Fast Nonlinear Dynamle Analysis (FNA) Technique COMPUTERS & STRUCTURES, INC. Presents ‘A One-Day Short Course STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS for Practicing Structural Engineers by. Ashraf Habibullah, President & CEO Computers & Structures, Inc.

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