Earthquake Disaster Simulation of Civil Infrastructures From Tall Buildings to Urban Areas /

• Main Authors: Lu, Xinzheng (Author), Guan, Hong (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Natural disasters.; Computer simulation.; Building Construction and Design.; Simulation and Modeling.; Natural Hazards.

Based on more than 12 years of systematic investigation on earthquake disaster simulation of civil infrastructures, this book covers the major research outcomes including a number of novel computational models, high performance computing methods and realistic visualization techniques for tall buildi...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• High fidelity computational models for seismic simulation of tall buildings
• High performance computing and visualization for seismic simulation of tall buildings
• Seismic disaster simulation of typical super tall buildings
• Engineering application of seismic disaster simulation of supertall buildings
• Comparison of the seismic design and performance of tall buildings in China and USA
• Nonlinear MDOF models for seismic simulation of urban buildings
• Visualization of urban building seismic simulation
• High performance computing for urban building seismic simulation
• Seismic disaster simulation of typical urban areas
• Earthquake loss prediction for typical urban areas.