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Proceedings of the 17th Analysis and Computation Specialty Conference 2006, held in conjunction with Structures Congress 2006 in St. Louis, Missouri, May 18-21, 2006. The collection of 44 papers highlights recent research in the broad areas of applied structural analysis, optimal structural design, structural control, and emergent computing technology. Dr. Kircher's presentation addressed the topic of Protecting Older Buildings with Seismic Isolation and Damping Systems. Dr. Kircher has made significant contributions to the field of earthquake engineering including the development of earthquake damage and loss estimation methods, seismic hazard criteria, and isolation and damping system design criteria used in building codes.

Computer analysis --- Structural engineering --- Structural analysis --- Structural control --- Seismic tests --- Base isolation --- Damping --- Earthquakes --- Computer analysis --- Structural engineering --- Structural analysis --- Structural control --- Seismic tests --- Base isolation --- Damping --- Earthquakes

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This eBook is the third in a series of books on the critical earthquake response of elastic or elastic-plastic structures under near-fault or long-duration ground motions, and includes four original research papers which were published in the specialty section Earthquake Engineering in ‘Frontiers in Built Environment’. Several extensions of the first eBook and the second eBook are included here. The first article is on the earthquake resilience of residential houses after repeated ground motions with high intensity. The 2016 Kumamoto earthquake brought a significant impact on the earthquake resilience of residential houses under repeated ground motions with high intensity in a few days. The necessary strength upgrade withstanding two repeated high-intensity ground motions was found to be 1.5. The second article is concerned with the smart enhancement of earthquake resilience of building structures under both near-fault and long-duration ground motions. A hybrid system of base-isolation and building connection control was proposed and its earthquake resilience to near-fault and long-duration ground motions was evaluated by a double impulse and a multiple impulse. It was demonstrated that the base-isolation is effective for near-fault ground motions and the building connection system using passive dampers is effective for long-duration ground motions. The third article is related to the robustness evaluation of elastic-plastic base-isolated high-rise buildings under resonant near-fault ground motions. The robustness function was introduced to evaluate quantitatively the robustness of elastic-plastic base-isolated high-rise buildings. The fourth article is an extension of the previously proposed energy balance approach to a bilinear elastic-plastic single-degree-of-freedom system under a long-duration sinusoidal ground motion. A historical difficulty in nonlinear vibration posed by Caughey (1960) and Iwan (1961) has been overcome in a smart manner after half a century. The approach presented in this eBook, together with the previous eBooks, is an epoch-making accomplishment to open the door for simpler and deeper understanding of structural reliability and resilience of built environments in the elastic-plastic and nonlinear range.

Building --- Base isolation --- Energy balance --- Earthquake response --- Structural control --- Robustness --- Earthquake ground motion --- Seismic resistance --- Impulse --- Resilience --- Building --- Base isolation --- Energy balance --- Earthquake response --- Structural control --- Robustness --- Earthquake ground motion --- Seismic resistance --- Impulse --- Resilience

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This eBook is the third in a series of books on the critical earthquake response of elastic or elastic-plastic structures under near-fault or long-duration ground motions, and includes four original research papers which were published in the specialty section Earthquake Engineering in ‘Frontiers in Built Environment’. Several extensions of the first eBook and the second eBook are included here. The first article is on the earthquake resilience of residential houses after repeated ground motions with high intensity. The 2016 Kumamoto earthquake brought a significant impact on the earthquake resilience of residential houses under repeated ground motions with high intensity in a few days. The necessary strength upgrade withstanding two repeated high-intensity ground motions was found to be 1.5. The second article is concerned with the smart enhancement of earthquake resilience of building structures under both near-fault and long-duration ground motions. A hybrid system of base-isolation and building connection control was proposed and its earthquake resilience to near-fault and long-duration ground motions was evaluated by a double impulse and a multiple impulse. It was demonstrated that the base-isolation is effective for near-fault ground motions and the building connection system using passive dampers is effective for long-duration ground motions. The third article is related to the robustness evaluation of elastic-plastic base-isolated high-rise buildings under resonant near-fault ground motions. The robustness function was introduced to evaluate quantitatively the robustness of elastic-plastic base-isolated high-rise buildings. The fourth article is an extension of the previously proposed energy balance approach to a bilinear elastic-plastic single-degree-of-freedom system under a long-duration sinusoidal ground motion. A historical difficulty in nonlinear vibration posed by Caughey (1960) and Iwan (1961) has been overcome in a smart manner after half a century. The approach presented in this eBook, together with the previous eBooks, is an epoch-making accomplishment to open the door for simpler and deeper understanding of structural reliability and resilience of built environments in the elastic-plastic and nonlinear range.

Building --- Base isolation --- Energy balance --- Earthquake response --- Structural control --- Robustness --- Earthquake ground motion --- Seismic resistance --- Impulse --- Resilience

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This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial Office: frontiersin.org/about/contact

Civil engineering, surveying & building --- Environmental science, engineering & technology --- seismic base isolation --- energy dissipation devices --- tuned mass damper --- performance-based seismic engineering --- reliability-based design --- dampers --- damper optimization --- earthquake-resistant structures --- seismic base isolation --- energy dissipation devices --- tuned mass damper --- performance-based seismic engineering --- reliability-based design --- dampers --- damper optimization --- earthquake-resistant structures