Critical Excitation Methods in Earthquake Engineering

Preface to the first edition <br>Preface to the second edition<br>1. Overview of seismic critical excitation method<br>2. Critical excitation for stationary and non-stationary random inputs 25<br>3. Critical excitation for non-proportionally damped structural systems <br>4. Critical excitation for acceleration response<br>5. Critical excitation for elastic-plastic response<br>6. Critical envelope function for non-stationary random earthquake input<br>7. Robust stiffness design for structure-dependent critical excitation<br>8. Critical excitation for earthquake energy input in SDOF system <br>9. Critical excitation for earthquake energy input in MDOF system <br>10. Critical excitation for earthquake energy input in soil-structure interaction system <br>11. Critical excitation for earthquake energy input in structure-pile-soil system <br>12. Critical excitation for earthquake energy input rate<br>13. Critical excitation for multi-component inputs<br>14. Critical excitation for elastic-plastic response using deterministic approach<br>15. Earthquake resilience evaluation of building structures with critical excitation methods