Earthquake Engineering: A Lecture Delivered To The 4th Year Students

This document provides an overview of key topics in earthquake engineering for civil engineering students. It begins with an outline of the course structure, including lectures, labs, homework assignments, and exams. It then discusses the relevant areas of structural mechanics and introduces some of the major concepts in seismology, including the structure and layers of the Earth. The document emphasizes that earthquake engineering draws from fields like geophysics, geology, and structural dynamics to optimize earthquake-resistant structures. It also notes that geology informs seismology through studying the causes, propagation, and recording of earthquakes.

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“Gh.

Asachi” Tehnical University of Iaşi Faculty of Civil and Building Equipment Engineering
67, D. Mangeron Blvd., Iaşi, 700050, România 43, D. Mangeron Blvd, Iaşi, 700050, România
tel: +40+232-278680 tel: +40-232-278680/1479, fax: +40-232-233368
www.tuiasi.ro www.ce.tuiasi.ro
Department of Structural Mechanics
tel: +40-232-278680/1447, tel/fax: +40-232-239213
www.ce.tuiasi.ro/english/departments/mechanics.html

Earthquake Engineering

a lecture delivered to the 4th year students

by
Fideliu Păuleţ-Crăiniceanu, Associate Professor
tel: +40-232-278680/1488
Lecture 1 [email protected], www.ce.tuiasi.ro/~fideliu
EE course outline
Lecture Laboratory Exam Final
physical physical
homework written mark
presence presence

10% 20% 30% 40% 100%

14 → 10 14 → 10 1p → 1. theory
13 → 9 13 → 9 1p → 2. theory
(H1+H2+H3+H4)/4
1p → 3. theory
12 → 8
0-11 → 0
12 → 8
0-11 → 0
1p → 4. theory ?
2p → 5. theory
not ≥ 8 condition
compulsory to exam 4p → 6. problem
≥ 5 condition to exam
EE laboratory outline
Week no /
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
homework
H1
mark 10 9 8 7 6 5

H2
mark 10 9 8 7 6 5

H3
mark 10 9 8 7

H4
mark 10
Structural Mechanics
• Theoretical Mechanics
• Strength of Materials
•
y
Elasticity Theory A
q (N/m) P (N)
B x
C D E

• Structural Statics 30

20
Top Tower Accel. Resp. Fc.
VA a b
l
c d VB

• Structural Dynamics
10
Magnitude (dB)

El-Centro NS 1940
0
0.3

Acceleration (m/s2)
-10
0.2

• Structural Stability -20

-30
10
-1
10
0
no control
control
reduced
non-hinged

1
10
0.1
0.0
-0.1
Frequency (Hz)

• Earthquake Engineering
-0.2
-0.3
-0.4
0 5 10 15 20 25 30
Time (sec)
Contents of Lectures
• Seismology for Civil Engineers
• Seismic Analysis of SDOFS
• Seismic Analysis of MDOFS
• Romanian Earthquake Engineering
Code, P100
• New Trends in Earthquake Engineering
• Case Study
Structures
Natural Disasters
• Floods
• Land-slides
• Volcanoes
• Typhoons, hurricanes,
cyclones, storms, tornadoes
• Draught
• Fires
• Earthquakes
• Tsunamis
Floods
Land-slides
Strong winds
Volcanoes
Draught
Fires
Tsunamis
Tsunamis
Earthquakes
Earthquakes
Earthquakes
Earthquakes
Earthquakes
Earthquakes
Earthquakes
Earthquakes
Earthquakes
Earthquakes
Earthquakes

Soil liquefaction and “sand blow” due to earthquakes

However, life goes on !
Seismology for Civil Engineers
introduction

• Earthquake Engineering → mitigating earthquake hazards

planning, designing, constructing, and managing stages
• Earthquake Engineering → part of Structural Dynamics
strain and stress states
optimize the earthquake-resistant structures

• Geophysics, Geology, Seismology, Vibration Theory, Structural

Mechanics and construction techniques
Earthquake Engineering

• Geology → Seismology
causes, propagation, recording, Earth's structure, generation
mechanisms, history, prediction etc.
Seismology
for Civil
Engineers
introduction

List of major
earthquakes and
life losses
Seismology for Civil Engineers
structure of the Earth
Geological history of the Earth starts 4500 Ma ≡ our Galaxy

Earth Today’s shape

Seismology for Civil Engineers
structure of the Earth
History of the hominin species
Seismology for Civil Engineers
structure of the Earth

External
views of the
Earth
Seismology for Civil Engineers
structure of the Earth

Internal
structure of
the Earth
Seismology for Civil Engineers
structure of the Earth

Crust
Mantle Mohorovicic
discontinuity
Outer core
Inner core 2900km 5 60km
3500km