DEP 510E - Introduction to Earthquake Engineering

Course Objectives

1. To understand the basic concepts of earthquake engineering.
2. To understand basic structural response characteristics like stiffness, strength, ductility, overstrength, damping, response spectrum and to be able to learn the relations between these concepts.
3. To understand the constitutive behaviors of materials and sections.
4. To learn different analyses methodologies to capture the seismic response of building type structures.
5. To learn the seismic behavior of conventional and innovative structural systems.

Course Description

Effects of earthquakes, earthquake damage, characteristics of earthquakes, past earthquakes, magnitude, intensity, earthquake hypocenter, constitutive relations, distributed and concentrated plasticity concepts, stiffness, strength, ductility, damping, overstrength, conceptual relations, structural elements, their seismic response, structural modeling, substitute, stick, detailed models, seismic codes, seismic behavior of conventional and innovative structural systems, analyses procedures for building type structures.