Design of Steel Structures for Buildings in Seismic Areas

Training on "Design of Steel Structures for Buildings in Seismic Areas"

Reference book:

Eurocode 8 : Design of Structures for Earthquake Resistance Part : 1 General Rules, Seismic Action and Rule for Buildings

DAY 1 :

• 09:15 - 09:30
  Welcome & Introduction :
• • Content, objectives
• • Logic of the book and of the lectures
  • Structures at risk, examples of failures
    
• 09:30 - 11:00 
  Philosophy and contents of EN 1998. Structures located in moderate to high seismic areas.
• 11:00 - 11:15 Break Coffee
• 11:15 - 12:45
• • Conceptual design of seismic resistant structures Structural Systems, Ductility Classes, Choice of Material, Ductile Components, Design Overstrength, Fuses and Replaceable Elements 
• 12:45 - 13:30 Break Lunch
• 13:30 - 15:00
• • Structural analysis for seismic action
• • Seismic load combination.
  • Overview of structural analysis methods. Modal response spectrum analysis. Effective modal mass.
  • The lateral force method. Linear dynamic analysis.
  • Pushover analysis. Non-linear dynamic analysis. Accidental torsion. Accounting for torsional effects in structural analysis.
  • Combination of the effects of the components of the seismic action.
• 15:00 - 15:15 Break Coffee

• 15:15 - 16:45 

• • Seismic design of MRFs, X-CBF and V-CBFs (1/2)
  • Discussion of differences between DCH/DCM/DCL

• 16:45 - 17:00 Conclusion of Day 1

• Prof. Raffaele Landolfo, University of Naples "Federico II", Italy
• Prof. Dan Dubina, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania
• Assistant Prof. Mario D'Aniello, University of Naples "Federico II"
• Assoc Prof. Aurel Stratan, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania