Earthquake Engineering and Seismic Design of Steel Buildings

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• - the dynamics of elastic single-degree-of-freedom systems
• - the framework of Eurocode 8
• - the behaviour of different seismic-resistant systems such as moment-resisting frames, braced frames, and frames with energy dissipation devices
• - specific seismic design rules for steel buildings
• - the earthquake hazard (sources, magnitude, seismic intensity and site effects)
• - the dynamics of elastic multi-degree-of-freedom systems
• - different hysteretic rules
• - modal time history analysis and response spectrum analysis
• - approximate methods for estimating the peak inelastic response
• - the dynamics of inelastic single-degree-of-freedom systems
• - the dynamics of elastic frames with rotational degrees of freedom
• - nonlinear structural analysis methods and their use for seismic assessment
• - the elastic response spectrum

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• - Use commercially available software to create nonlinear structural analysis models of buildings
• - Process accelerograms and compute important characteristics of ground motions using MATLAB or any other programming environment
• - Compute the elastic and inelastic response spectrum of ground motions using MATLAB or any other programming environment
• - Use commercially available software to perform seismic design and assessment of steel buildings

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Critical appraisal
• Communication
• Planning and time management
• Exercising independent judgment
• Problem solving

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• - perform the seismic design of multi-storey steel buildings
• - compute the seismic response of simple elastic structures
• - perform seismic assessment of steel buildings using state-of-the-art nonlinear analysis methods
• - develop appropriate linear and nonlinear structural models for dynamic analysis
• - compute the seismic response of inelastic structures

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.