Design of Reinforced Concrete Buildings for Seismic Performance Practical Deterministic and Probabilistic Approaches

An elegant, simple and theoretically coherent design framework. Detailing is given to both ACI 318 and Eurocode 8, and the required strength is determined on the basis of estimated yield displacement and the desired limits of system ductility and drift demands. Students users will benefit from the coverage of seismology, structural dynamics, reinforced concrete members, and capacity design approaches, which allows the book to be used as a foundation text in earthquake engineering.