Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering

3 credits · College of Engineering catalogue

Advisory Prerequisite: CEE 511, CEE 512, and CEE 517 or equivalent. Enforced Prerequisite: None. (3 credits) Introduction to state-of-the-art performance-based earthquake-resistant design, including both theoretical and practical aspects. Topics include probabilistic seismic hazard analysis; uniform and conditional mean spectrum; ground motion selection and scaling; inelastic dynamic analysis; incremental dynamic analysis; collapse fragilities; damage analysis and fragility functions; probabilistic seismic loss analysis.