Design for seismic safety with our BCV714B VTU Notes. Master earthquake engineering, structural dynamics, and IS 1893 standards for the 2022 Scheme at the all-new vtubuddy.in Civil Engineering resource portal.
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Design for seismic safety with our BCV714B VTU Notes. Master earthquake engineering, structural dynamics, and IS 1893 standards for the 2022 Scheme at the all-new vtubuddy.in Civil Engineering resource portal.
Introduction to structural dynamics: Basic Definitions, Concept of degrees of freedom, D’Alembert’s principle, principle of virtual displacement and energy principles, Types of Vibrations, Damping and its types, Analytical Model of dynamic system, Free vibration of damped and undamped system having single degree of freedom. Concept of equivalent spring, Numerical problems on determining natural period, natural frequency, mass, stiffness, amplitude, and acceleration for undamped free vibration systems.
Engineering Seismology: Terminologies (Focus, Focal depth, Epicenter, etc.); Causes of Earthquakes; Theory of plate tectonics; Types and characteristics faults; Classification of Earthquakes; Types and characteristics of seismic waves; Magnitude and intensity of earthquakes; local site effects; Earthquake ground motion characteristics: Amplitude, frequency and duration; Seismic zoning map of India, Earthquake measuring instrumentsSeismoscope, Seismograph and accelerograph.
Seismic Performance of Buildings and Over View of IS-1893 (Part-1): Types of damages to building observed during past earthquakes; Plan irregularities; mass irregularity; stiffness irregularity; Concept of soft and weak storey; Torsional irregularity and its consequences; configuration problems; continuous load path; Architectural aspects of earthquake resistant buildings; Lateral load resistant systems. Seismic design philosophy; Structural modeling; Code based seismic design methods.
Determination of Design Lateral Forces: Equivalent lateral force procedure and dynamic analysis procedure. Step by step procedures for seismic analysis of RC buildings using Equivalent static lateral force method and response spectrum methods (maximum of 4 storeys and without infill walls). Numerical problems.
Ductility considerations: Factor affecting ductility, ductile detailing of flexural members, columns and frame members as per IS13920. Design of Ductile Reinforced Concrete Beams, Seismic Design of Ductile Reinforced Concrete column Earthquake Resistant Design of Masonry Buildings: Performance of Unreinforced, Reinforced, Infill Masonry Walls, Box Action, Lintel and sill Bands, elastic properties of structural masonry, lateral load analysis, Recommendations for Improving performance of Masonry Buildings during earthquakes; Retrofitting of Masonry buildings
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