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Book Synopsis Structures of Displacement by : Baerbel Mueller
Download or read book Structures of Displacement written by Baerbel Mueller and published by Birkhaüser. This book was released on 2020-11-23 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Structures of Displacement documents a joint project of the [applied] Foreign Affairs lab of the Institute of Architecture at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO). The project involved the conception and design of an agricultural training center at Harsham Camp, a refugee camp in Erbil in the Kurdistan region of Iraq (2016-2019). This book presents [a]FA's mapping of the Harsham Camp to identify and describe its economic networks and habitats, and provides insights into the individual biographies of the camp's residents. The project was conducted as part of the UN mandate to stabilize Iraq and support economic recovery and reconstruction for displaced persons and returnees.
Book Synopsis Displacement-based Seismic Design of Structures by : M. J. N. Priestley
Download or read book Displacement-based Seismic Design of Structures written by M. J. N. Priestley and published by Iuss Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Displacement-Based Seismic Design of Structures is a book primarily directed towards practicing structural designers who are interested in applying performance-based concepts to seismic design. Since much of the material presented in the book has not been published elsewhere, it will also be of considerable interest to researchers, and to graduate and upper-level undergraduate students of earthquake engineering who wish to develop a deeper understanding of how design can be used to control seismic response. The design philosophy is based on determination of the optimum structural strength to achieve a given performance limit state, related to a defined level of damage, under a specified level of seismic intensity. Emphasis is also placed on how this strength is distributed through the structure. This takes two forms: methods of structural analysis and capacity design. It is shown that equilibrium considerations frequently lead to a more advantageous distribution of strength than that resulting from stiffness considerations. Capacity design considerations have been re-examined, and new and more realistic design approaches are presented to insure against undesirable modes of inelastic deformation. The book considers a wide range of structural types, including separate chapters on frame buildings, wall buildings, dual wall/frame buildings, masonry buildings, timber structures, bridges, structures with isolation or added damping devices, and wharves. These are preceded by introductory chapters discussing conceptual problems with current force-based design, seismic input for displacement-based design, fundamentals of direct displacement-based design, and analytical tools appropriate for displacement-based design. The final two chapters adapt the principles of displacement-based seismic design to assessment of existing structures, and present the previously developed design information in the form of a draft building code. The text is illustrated by copious worked design examples (39 in all), and analysis aids are provided in the form of a CD containing three computer programs covering moment-curvature analysis (Cumbia), linear-element-based inelastic time-history analysis (Ruaumoko), and a general fibre-element dynamic analysis program (SeismoStruct). The design procedure developed in this book is based on a secant-stiffness (rather than initial stiffness) representation of structural response, using a level of damping equivalent to the combined effects of elastic and hysteretic damping. The approach has been fully verified by extensive inelastic time history analyses, which are extensively reported in the text. The design method is extremely simple to apply, and very successful in providing dependable and predictable seismic response. Authors Bios M.J.N.Priestley Nigel Priestley is Professor Emeritus of the University of California San Diego, and co-Director of the Centre of Research and Graduate Studies in Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Seismology (ROSE School), Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori (IUSS), Pavia, Italy. He has published more than 450 papers, mainly on earthquake engineering, and received numerous awards for his research. He holds honorary doctorates from ETH, Zurich, and Cujo, Argentina. He is co-author of two previous seismic design books “Seismic Design of Concrete and Masonry Buildings” and “Seismic Design and Retrofit of Bridges”, that are considered standard texts on the subjects. G.M.Calvi Michele Calvi is Professor of the University of Pavia and Director of the Centre of Research and Graduate Studies in Earthquake Engineering and Engineering Seismology (ROSE School), Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori (IUSS) of Pavia. He has published more than 200 papers and is co-author of the book “Seismic Design and Retrofit of Bridges”, that is considered a standard text on the subject, has been involved in important construction projects worldwide, such as the Rion Bridge in Greece and the upgrading of the Bolu Viaduct in Turkey, and is coordinating several international research projects. M.J.Kowalsky Mervyn Kowalsky is Associate Professor of Structural Engineering in the Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering at North Carolina State University and a member of the faculty of the ROSE School. His research, which has largely focused on the seismic behaviour of structures, has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the North Carolina and Alaska Departments of Transportation, and several industrial organizations. He is a registered Professional Engineer in North Carolina and an active member of several national and international committees on Performance-Based Seismic Design.
Book Synopsis Introduction to Structural Analysis by : S. T. Mau
Download or read book Introduction to Structural Analysis written by S. T. Mau and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2012-04-26 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bridging the gap between what is traditionally taught in textbooks and what is actually practiced in engineering firms, Introduction to Structural Analysis: Displacement and Force Methods clearly explains the two fundamental methods of structural analysis: the displacement method and the force method. It also shows how these methods are applied, pa
Book Synopsis Matrix and Finite Element Displacement Analysis of Structures by : D. J. Dawe
Download or read book Matrix and Finite Element Displacement Analysis of Structures written by D. J. Dawe and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1984 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Displacement-based Seismic Design of Reinforced Concrete Buildings by : fib Fédération internationale du béton
Download or read book Displacement-based Seismic Design of Reinforced Concrete Buildings written by fib Fédération internationale du béton and published by fib Fédération internationale du béton. This book was released on 2003 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brief summary of the history of seismic design as given in chapter 1, indicates that initially design was purely based on strength or force considerations. When the importance of displacement, however, became better appreciated, it was attempted to modify the existing force-based approach in order to include considerations of displacement, rather than to totally reconsider the procedure on a more rational basis. In the last decade, then, several researchers started pointing out this inconsistency, proposing displacement-based approaches for earthquake engineering evaluation and design, with the aim of providing improved reliability in the engineering process by more directly relating computed response and expected structural performance. The main objective of this report is to summarize, critically review and compare the displacement - based approaches proposed in the literature, thus favouring code implementation and practical use of rational and reliable methods. Chapter 2 Seismic performance and design objectives of this report introduces concepts of performance levels, seismic hazard representation, and the coupling of performance and hazard to define performance objectives. In fact, for displacement analysis to be relevant in the context of performance-based design, the structural engineer must select appropriate performance levels and seismic loadings. A critical review of some engineering limit states appropriate to the different performance levels is therefore proposed. In chapter 3 Conceptual basis for displacement-based earthquake resistant design, the fundamental principles associated with displacement of the ground during an earthquake and the effects, in terms of displacement, in the structure, are reviewed. The historical development guides the presentation with a review of general linear and nonlinear structural dynamics principles, general approaches to estimate displacement, for both ground and structure, and finally a general presentation of the means to measure and judge the appropriateness of the displacements of the structure in section. Chapter 4 Approaches and procedures for displacement-based design can be somehow considered the fundamental part of the report, since a critical summary of the displacement - based approaches proposed by different researchers is presented there. Displacement - based design may require specific characterization of the input ground motion, a topic addressed in Chapter 5 Seismic input. In general, various pertinent definitions of input motion for non-code format analysis are included, while peak ground parameters necessary for code base shear equations are only addressed as needed for the definition of motion for analysis. Chapter 6 Displacement capacity of members and systems addresses the fundamental problem of evaluating the inelastic displacement capacity of reinforced concrete members and realistic values of their effective cracked stiffness at yielding, including effects of shear and inclined cracking, anchorage slip, bar buckling and of load cycling. In Chapter 7 Application and evaluation of displacement-based approaches, some of the many different displacement based design procedures briefly introduced in Chapter 4 are applied to various case studies, identifying and discussing the difficulties a designer may encounter when trying to use displacement based design. Results for five different case studies designed in accordance with eight different displacement based design methods are presented. Although in general case studies are considered a useful but marginal part of a state of the art document, in this case it has to be noted that chapter 7 is possibly the most innovative and fundamental part of the whole report. The conclusions of chapter 7 are the fundamental and essential conclusions of the document and allow foreseeing a bright future for displacement - based design approaches. The state-of-art report has been elaborated over a period of 4 years by Task Group 7.2 Displacement-based design and assessment of fib Commission 7Seismic design, a truly international team of experts, representing the expertise and experience of all the important seismic regions of the world. In October 2002 the final draft of the Bulletin was presented to the public during the 1st fibCongress in Osaka. It was also there that it was approved by fib Commission 7Seismic Design.
Book Synopsis Displacement-based seismic design for multi-storey cross laminated timber buildings by : Hummel, Johannes
Download or read book Displacement-based seismic design for multi-storey cross laminated timber buildings written by Hummel, Johannes and published by kassel university press GmbH. This book was released on 2017 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Key Terms: cross laminated timber, displacement-based seismic design, time history analysis, multi-storey timber structures, hysteretic behaviour
Book Synopsis Inhabiting Displacement by : Shahd Seethaler-Wari
Download or read book Inhabiting Displacement written by Shahd Seethaler-Wari and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2021-11-22 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Analysis of Structures by : Nicholas John Hoff
Download or read book The Analysis of Structures written by Nicholas John Hoff and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-27 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Analysis of Structures: Based on the Minimal Principles and the Principle of Virtual Displacements Many students of engineering consider the analysis of structures a rather boring subject. They do not understand the justification of the assumptions made, and they get tired of memorizing scores of un related formulas, rules, and procedures. It is the hope of the author that in this volume he has proved that these objections to the theory of structures are not justified because the study of structures can be an exciting undertaking. The various methods used by structural engineers are all logically interconnected if one looks upon them, from a unifying standpoint. Not a Single formula need be memorized if the fundamental principles are understood; every method presented in this book is an almost obvious consequence of the basic principles and can be derived with a minimum amount of mathematical manip ulation. The various devices suggested for increasing the accuracy of the calculations and reducing the work involved may appear as tricks to the uninitiated. But to the reader of this book, these devices should become obvious applications of the basic principles. The first purpose of this volume is therefore the presentation of structural analysis as a logical and unified theory based on a small number of first assumptions. To achieve it, the principle of virtual displacements is chosen as the starting point. The second purpose is the development of the minimal principles of structural theory; they have been used so generally in the engineering literature of the last few years that no modern practicing engineer can afford to ignore them. Finally an effort is made to give the reader a thorough under standing of buckling phenomena. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis Dynamic Behaviour of Reinforced Concrete Frames Designed with Direct Displacement- Based Design by : J. Didier Pettinga
Download or read book Dynamic Behaviour of Reinforced Concrete Frames Designed with Direct Displacement- Based Design written by J. Didier Pettinga and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Study of the Feasibility of Applying Capacitive Displacement-measuring Techniques to Open-mesh Grid Structures by : Richard DeLoach
Download or read book A Study of the Feasibility of Applying Capacitive Displacement-measuring Techniques to Open-mesh Grid Structures written by Richard DeLoach and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Capacitor field calculations for capacitive displacement measurement of open mesh structures such as radio telescopes and radar receivers.
Book Synopsis Smart Materials and Structures by : Peter L. Reece
Download or read book Smart Materials and Structures written by Peter L. Reece and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Smart" materials respond to environmental stimuli with particular changes in some variables. For that reason they are often also called responsive materials. Depending on changes in some external conditions, "smart" materials change either their properties (mechanical, electrical, appearance), their structure or composition, or their functions. Mostly, "smart" materials are embedded in systems whose inherent properties can be favourably changed to meet performance needs. Smart materials and structures have widespread applications in: 1. Materials science: composites, ceramics, processing science, interface science, sensor/actuator materials, chiral materials, conducting and chiral polymers, electrochromic materials, liquid crystals, molecular-level smart materials, biomaterials. 2. Sensing and actuation: electromagnetic, acoustic, chemical and mechanical sensing and actuation, single-measurand sensors, multiplexed multimeasurand distributed sensors and actuators, sensor/actuator signal processing, compatibility of sensors and actuators with conventional and advanced materials, smart sensors for materials and composites processing. 3. Optics and electromagnetics: optical fibre technology, active and adaptive optical systems and components, tunable high-dielectric phase shifters, tunable surface control. 4. Structures: smart skins for drag and turbulence control, other applications in aerospace/hydrospace structures, civil infrastructures, transportation vehicles, manufacturing equipment, repairability and maintainability. 5. Control: structural acoustic control, distributed control, analogue and digital feedback control, real-time implementation, adaptive structure stability, damage implications for structural control. 6. Information processing: neural networks, data processing, data visualisation and reliability. This book presents leading new research from around the globe in this field.
Book Synopsis Advances in Building Technology by : M. Anson
Download or read book Advances in Building Technology written by M. Anson and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2002-11-14 with total page 1844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This set of proceedings is based on the International Conference on Advances in Building Technology in Hong Kong on 4-6 December 2002. The two volumes of proceedings contain 9 invited keynote papers, 72 papers delivered by 11 teams , and 133 contributed papers from over 20 countries around the world. The papers cover a wide spectrum of topics across the three technology sub-themes of structures and construction, environment, and information technology. The variety within these categories spans a width of topics, and these proceedings provide readers with a good general overview of recent advances in building research.
Book Synopsis Health Assessment of Engineered Structures by : Achintya Haldar
Download or read book Health Assessment of Engineered Structures written by Achintya Haldar and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2013-05-08 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health Assessment of Engineered Structures has become one of the most active research areas and has attracted multi-disciplinary interest. Since available financial recourses are very limited, extending the lifespan of existing bridges, buildings and other infrastructures has become a major challenge to the engineering profession world-wide. Some of its related areas are only in their development phase. As the study of structural health assessment matures, more new areas are being identified to complement the concept. This book covers some of the most recent developments (theoretical and experimental) and application potentials in structural health assessment. It is designed to present currently available information in an organised form to interested parties who are not experts in the subject. Each chapter is authored by the most active scholar(s) in the area. After discussing the general concept, various currently available methods of structural health assessment (such as the use of smart sensors) are presented. Health Assessment discusses the following: sensor types, platforms and data conditioning for practical applications; wireless collection of sensor data, sensor power needs and on-site energy harvesting; and long term monitoring of structures. Uncertainty in collected data is also extensively addressed. A chapter discussing future directions in structural health assessment is also included. Contents:Structural Health Monitoring for Civil Infrastructure (E J Cross, K Worden and C R Farrar)Enhanced Damage Locating Vector Method for Structural Health Monitoring (S T Quek, V A Tran, and N N K Lee)Dynamics-Based Damage Identification (Pizhong Qiao and Wei Fan)Simulation Based Methods for Model Updating in Structural Condition Assessment (H A Nasrellah, B Radhika, V S Sundar, and C S Manohar)Stochastic Filtering in Structural Health Assessment: Some Perspectives and Recent Trends (S Sarkar, T Raveendran, D Roy, and R M Vasu)A Novel Health Assessment Method for Large Three Dimensional Structures (Ajoy Kumar Das and Achintya Haldar)Wavelet-Based Techniques for Structural Health Monitoring (Z Hou, A Hera, and M Noori)The HHT Based Structural Health Monitoring (Norden E Huang, Liming W Salvino, Ya-Yu Nieh, Gang Wang and Xianyao Chen)The Use of Genetic Algorithms for Structural Identification and Damage Assessment (C G Koh and Z Zhang)Health Diagnostics of Highway Bridges Using Vibration Response Data (Maria Q Feng, Hugo C Gomez, and Andrea Zampieri)Sensors Used in Structural Health Monitoring (Mehdi Modares and Jamshid Mohammadi)Sensor Data Wireless Communication, Sensor Power Needs, and Energy Harvesting (Erdal Oruklu, Jafar Saniie, Mehdi Modares, and Jamshid Mohammadi) Readership: Students (undergraduate and graduate), researchers (academic and industrial), and practitioners (government and private) interested in structural engineering. Keywords:Structural Health Assessment;Methodologies;Sensors;Wireless Sensors;Uncertainty Analysis;System IdentificationKey Features:No such book is currently available, it is one of the most active research and development areas in the engineering profession at present and each chapter will be authored by the most active scholar(s) on the subject
Book Synopsis Structures of Protection? by : Tom Scott-Smith
Download or read book Structures of Protection? written by Tom Scott-Smith and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2020-05-01 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Questioning what shelter is and how we can define it, this volume brings together essays on different forms of refugee shelter, with a view to widening public understanding about the lives of forced migrants and developing theoretical understanding of this oft-neglected facet of the refugee experience. Drawing on a range of disciplines, including sociology, anthropology, law, architecture, and history, each of the chapters describes a particular shelter and uses this to open up theoretical reflections on the relationship between architecture, place, politics, design and displacement.
Book Synopsis [APPLIED] FOREIGN AFFAIRS by : Baerbel Mueller
Download or read book [APPLIED] FOREIGN AFFAIRS written by Baerbel Mueller and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2017-04-10 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [a]FA is a laboratory of the Institute of Architecture of the University for Applied Arts in Vienna, in which spatial, infrastructure, ecological and cultural phenomena of the Sub-Saharan region are investigated. The concept for each project is based on an interdisciplinary and trans-cultural approach. This publication documents three projects that were carried out between 2011 and 2015. GUABULIGA _ WELL BY THE THORN TREE / ON OTHER PLANNING in northern Ghana, STAGING APAM / ON OTHER ARCHITECTURE at Ghana’s Atlantic coast, and LUBUNGAMODE / ON OTHER ARTISTIC RESEARCH in Kisangani, DR of Congo. The book illustrates the projects’ creative processes and contexts, embedded in contemporary discourses – well-known experts from architecture, art, theory, and urban sociology take a stand.
Book Synopsis Humanitarian Displacement and Boko Haram in Nigeria by : Medinat Abdulazeez Malefakis
Download or read book Humanitarian Displacement and Boko Haram in Nigeria written by Medinat Abdulazeez Malefakis and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-05-11 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book analyses the management of the internal displacement caused by activities of Boko Haram’s terrorist insurgence in Nigeria. With over 3.1m persons displaced, the humanitarian crisis is at teeter ends with acute malnourishment, inadequate wash and non-relief materials, improper hygiene facilities, and lack of access to basic relief aid for displaced persons. The array of humanitarian organisations belies the concrete living conditions of displaced persons and calls to question the huge resources assumed to be expended on managing the humanitarian crisis in the northeast of Nigeria and the Lake Chad Basin in general. Based on ethnographic research in IDP camps, the book chronicles the concrete living conditions of displaced persons and argues that IDPs in Northeastern Nigeria have been victimised first by Boko Haram’s terrorism, and then victimised again by inefficient, un-coordinated, and unsuitable displacement management programs. This book also explicate the roles played by the Nigerian government and international aid agencies in managing this displacement, vis-à-vis a comparative analysis of similar, but better managed displacement situations in Kenya, Lebanon, and Turkey.
Book Synopsis Contagion of Violence by : National Research Council
Download or read book Contagion of Violence written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2013-03-06 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The past 25 years have seen a major paradigm shift in the field of violence prevention, from the assumption that violence is inevitable to the recognition that violence is preventable. Part of this shift has occurred in thinking about why violence occurs, and where intervention points might lie. In exploring the occurrence of violence, researchers have recognized the tendency for violent acts to cluster, to spread from place to place, and to mutate from one type to another. Furthermore, violent acts are often preceded or followed by other violent acts. In the field of public health, such a process has also been seen in the infectious disease model, in which an agent or vector initiates a specific biological pathway leading to symptoms of disease and infectivity. The agent transmits from individual to individual, and levels of the disease in the population above the baseline constitute an epidemic. Although violence does not have a readily observable biological agent as an initiator, it can follow similar epidemiological pathways. On April 30-May 1, 2012, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Forum on Global Violence Prevention convened a workshop to explore the contagious nature of violence. Part of the Forum's mandate is to engage in multisectoral, multidirectional dialogue that explores crosscutting, evidence-based approaches to violence prevention, and the Forum has convened four workshops to this point exploring various elements of violence prevention. The workshops are designed to examine such approaches from multiple perspectives and at multiple levels of society. In particular, the workshop on the contagion of violence focused on exploring the epidemiology of the contagion, describing possible processes and mechanisms by which violence is transmitted, examining how contextual factors mitigate or exacerbate the issue. Contagion of Violence: Workshop Summary covers the major topics that arose during the 2-day workshop. It is organized by important elements of the infectious disease model so as to present the contagion of violence in a larger context and in a more compelling and comprehensive way.
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