A systematic and comprehensive introduction of seismic risk analysis of critical engineering structures, focusing on nuclear power plants.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Wei-Chau Xie is a Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Waterloo. His principal areas of research include seismic analysis and design of engineering structures, reliability and safety analysis of engineering systems, dynamic stability of structures, structural dynamics and random vibration. He is the author of Dynamic Stability of Structures (Cambridge, 2006) and Differential Equations for Engineers (Cambridge, 2010). He is the recipient of the Distinguished Teacher Award from the University of Waterloo. He is a voting member of Canadian Standard Association (CSA) N289 Technical Committee on Seismic Design.
Inhaltsangabe
1. Introduction 2. Engineering seismology 3. Basics of random processes and structural dynamics 4. Seismic response spectra 5. Seismic hazard analysis 6. Ground motions for seismic analysis 7. Modeling of structures 8. Floor response spectra 9. Seismic fragility analysis 10. Seismic probability safety assessment.
