Dynamic Behavior of Concrete and Seismic Engineering

<p>Preface . xi</p>
<p>Chapter 1. Dynamic Behavior of Concrete: Experimental Aspects 1<br /> Fran&ccedil;ois Toutlemonde and G&eacute;rard Gary</p>
<p>1.1. Introduction 1</p>
<p>1.2. Tests in which the transient rate has little influence 10</p>
<p>1.3. Tests with transient phase conditioned interpretations 20</p>
<p>1.4. Other tests 29</p>
<p>1.5. Synthesis of the experimental data on concrete and associated materials 33</p>
<p>1.6. Conclusion 46</p>
<p>1.7. Bibliography 47</p>
<p>Chapter 2. Dynamic Behavior of Concrete: Constitutive Models 55<br /> Patrice Bailly</p>
<p>2.1. Dynamics of concrete structures 55</p>
<p>2.2. Fast dynamics applied to concrete 62</p>
<p>2.3. Scabbing 68</p>
<p>2.4. Effect of a shock wave on the structure of materials 69</p>
<p>2.5. Modeling types 70</p>
<p>2.6. Models 76</p>
<p>2.7. Conclusion 90</p>
<p>2.8. Bibliography 92</p>
<p>Chapter 3. Seismic Ground Motion 95<br /> Pierre–Yves Bard</p>
<p>3.1. Introduction 95</p>
<p>3.2. Measuring seismic motions 96</p>
<p>3.3. Quantitative characterization of seismic movements&nbsp;98</p>
<p>3.4. Factors affecting seismic motions 108</p>
<p>3.5. Conclusions 120</p>
<p>3.6. Bibliography 121</p>
<p>Chapter 4. Soil Behavior: Dynamic Soil–Structure Interactions 125<br /> Alain Pecker</p>
<p>Introduction 125<br /> <br /> 4.1. Behavior of soils under seismic loading 126</p>
<p>4.2. Modeling soil behavior 131</p>
<p>4.3. Linear soil–structure interactions&nbsp; 143</p>
<p>4.4. Non–linear soil–structure interactions 158</p>
<p>4.5. Bibliography 161</p>
<p>Chapter 5. Experimental Methods in Earthquake Engineering 165<br /> Alain Millard, Pierre Pegon and Jean–Claude Queval</p>
<p>Introduction 165</p>
<p>5.1. The pseudo–dynamic method 167</p>
<p>5.2. The conventional pseudo–dynamic method 170</p>
<p>5.3. Continuous pseudo–dynamic method 178</p>
<p>5.4. Final comments 183</p>
<p>5.5. Shaking table tests 184</p>
<p>5.6. Laws of similarity 193</p>
<p>5.7. Instrumentation 194</p>
<p>5.8. Loading 195</p>
<p>5.9. Conclusion 196</p>
<p>5.10. Bibliography 197</p>
<p>Chapter 6. Experiments on Large Structures 201<br /> Patrick Paultre and Jean Proulx</p>
<p>Introduction 201</p>
<p>6.1. Instrumentation 202</p>
<p>6.2. Dynamic loads 205</p>
<p>6.3. Data processing&nbsp;206</p>
<p>6.4. Application to buildings 208</p>
<p>6.5. Bridge application 213</p>
<p>6.6. Application to large dams 220</p>
<p>6.7. Conclusion 230</p>
<p>6.8. Acknowledgements 230</p>
<p>6.9. Bibliography 230</p>
<p>Chapter 7. Models for Simulating the Seismic Response of Concrete Structures 233<br /> Didier Combescure, Nicolas Ile, Jacky Mazars and Jean–Marie Reynouard</p>
<p>7.1. Introduction 233</p>
<p>7.2. Different discretization families 234</p>
<p>7.3. Behavior laws for concrete 240</p>
<p>7.4. A few examples with their validation through experiments&nbsp; 250</p>
<p>7.5. Conclusions 269</p>
<p>7.6. Bibliography 270</p>
<p>Chapter 8. Seismic Analysis of Structures: Improvements Due to Probabilistic Concepts 273<br /> Jean–Ren&eacute; Gibert</p>
<p>8.1. Introduction 273</p>
<p>8.2. The modal method 274</p>
<p>8.3. Criticism of the modal method 279</p>
<p>8.4. A few reminders about random processes 280</p>
<p>8.5. Improvements to the modal method&nbsp;292</p>
<p>8.6. Direct calculation of the floor spectra 297</p>
<p>8.7. Creation of synthetic signals and direct numerical integration 301</p>
<p>8.8. Seismic analysis of non–linear behavior structures 304</p>
<p>8.9. Conclusion 323</p>
<p>8.10. Bibliography 323</p>
<p>Chapter 9. Engineering Know–How: Lessons from Earthquakes and Rules for Seismic Design 327<br /> Philippe Bisch</p>
<p>9.1. Introduction 327</p>
<p>9.2. Lessons from earthquakes 327</p>
<p>9.3. The aims of anti–seismic protection standards 336</p>
<p>9.4. General design 344</p>
<p>9.5. Behavior coefficients&nbsp;349</p>
<p>9.6. Designing and dimensioning reinforced concrete structure elements&nbsp;353</p>
<p>9.7. Conclusions 366<br /> <br /> 9.8. Bibliography 366</p>
<p>List of Authors 369</p>
<p>Index 373</p>