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- Title
- Earthquake Design Criteria for Structures.
- File
- PB276502.pdf
- Author(s)
- Housner, G. W.; Jennings, P. C.
- Source
- National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C., November 1977, 65 p.
- Identifying Number(s)
- EERL-77-06
- Abstract
- Seismic design criteria should provide clearly stated guidelines for engineering designers which will give equal earthquake resistance to all parts of a structure and will give the desired overall resistance to the structure itself. To achieve this, the seismic design criteria must restate a complex problem, that has unknowns and uncertainties, into an unambiguous, simplified form that takes into account the uncertainties of seismic hazards, material properties and structural behavior. The criteria should be formulated by the project engineer, taking into account all the degrees of conservatism introduced in the sequence of design steps.
- Keywords
- Seismic design; Earthquake resistant structures; Seismic waves; Construction; Earth movements; Structural design; Ground motion; Earthquake engineering; Construction costs; Design criteria