WITH EFFECT FROM THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2013- 2014

CE 406

ELEMENTS OF EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING

Instruction                                                                                                                                                                                       4 Periods per week

Duration of University Examination                                                                                                                                                     3 Hours

University Examination                                                                                                                                                                       75 Marks

Sessional                                                                                                                                                                                           25  Marks

UNIT-I

Engineering Seismology: Causes of earthquakes - Seismic waves -Magnitudes, Intensity and energy release - characteristics of strong earthquakes, ground motions, soils effects and liquefaction.

UNIT-II

Theory of Vibrations : Introduction, long and short period structure; single, two and multi-degree of freedom systems, damped and undamped variations, concepts of damped and undamped vibrations, response spectrum - Response spectrum analysis.

UNIT-III

Seismic Design Philosophy: Concept of Seismic resistant design, reduction factors - Over strength, Ductility and Redundancy -Determination of earthquake forces on structures. Seismic Design and detailing of Masonary, Reinforced Concrete, and Steel Buildings.

UNIT-IV

Seismic Performance of Buildings : Case Studies of few serious earthquakes in the country in the past, damages to buildings - Damage Patterns - Performance of Non-Engineered Buildings, Rural houses during the Earthquakes.

UNIT-V

Seismic Resistant Design: Basic principles of Earthquake resistance. Concepts of earthquake resistant construction in rural areas.Base isolation and energy and dissipation devices.Seismic retrofitting - Repair, rehabilitation and retrofitting, retrofitting strategies - Importance of reanalysis.Case Studies.

Suggested Reading :

1. 1.A.K. Chopra, Dynamics of Structures, Theory and Applications to Earthquake Engineering, Pearson Education, 2004.

1. 2.Pankaj Agarwal and Manish Shrikhande, Earthquake Resistant Design of Structures, Prentice Hall ofIndia, 2006.

1. 3.S.L. Kramer, Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering, Pearson Education, 2004.

1. 4.Mario Paz, International Handbook of Earthquake Engineering: Codes, Programs, and Examples, Springer Verlag, 1995.

1. 5.D.S. PrakashRao, Design Principles and Detailing of Concrete Structures, Tata McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, 1995.