Advanced Seismic Design of Structures (2742003)

Unit-1:  Earthquake Inputs

Time History Records and Frequency Contents of Ground Motion; Power Spectral Density Function of Ground Motion; Construction of Design Spectrum; Site Specific, Probabilistic and Uniform Hazard Spectrum; Predictive Relationships for earthquake parameters.

Unit-2:  Response analysis for specific ground motion

Time and frequency domain analyses of single and multi point excitations.

Unit-3:  Inelastic response of analysis

Incremental analysis for SDOF and MDOF systems, push over analysis.

Unit-4:  Performance based seismic design

Overview of the principles of performance - based seismic design, failure mode control and capacity design.

Unit-5:  Seismic soil structure interaction

Direct, substructure method and equivalent spring-dashpot analysis for soil-structure interaction problems.

After learning the course the students should be able to:

1. Construct design spectrum; Site Specific, Probablistic and Uniform Hazard Spectrums.
2. Carry out time and frequency domain analysis of single and multi point excitations.
3. To perform inelastic analysis of SDOF and MDOF systems.
4. Understand the principles of performance-based seismic design, failure mode control and capacity design.
5. To understand seismic soil structure interaction problems.