Seismic design of concrete buildings in the context of Eurocodes – Seismic design of concrete buildings in this book – Seismic performance requirements for buildings in Eurocode – Life safety under a rare earthquake: The ‘design – seismic action’ and the ‘seismic design situation’ – Limitation of damage in occasional earthquakes – Earthquakes and their structural and geotechnical effects – Introduction to earthquakes – Measure of earthquake characteristics: Magnitudes – Characteristics of ground motions – Determination of ground motion parameters – Probabilistic seismic hazard analyses – Effects of earthquakes on concrete buildings – Global seismic response mechanisms – Collapse – Member behaviour and failure – Columns – Beam–column joints – Beams – Concrete walls – Effects of earthquakes on geotechnical structures – Site effects – Soil liquefaction – Slope stability – Earthquake effects on shallow foundations – Earthquake effects on lifelines – Analysis of building structures for seismic actions – Linear elastic analysis – Dynamics of single degree of freedom systems – Equation of motion – Free vibration – Forced vibration – Numerical evaluation of dynamic response – Seismic response of SDOF systems – Response spectrum – Response spectra – Pseudo-spectra and seismic force – Elastic response spectra according to Eurocode – Dynamics of multiple degrees of freedom systems – Equation of motion – Free vibration – Modal response spectrum analysis .
