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Earthquake Response Spectra and Design Spectra

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Characterization of ground motions; Earthquake ground motions; Structural response

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The design of structures capable to perform satisfactorily when subjected to earthquake ground motions requires a characterization of such motions far more detailed than the information provided by popular seismological data, e.g., the Modified Mercalli Intensity. Key role to the seismic response of a structural system plays, among others, the frequency content of the induced ground motion. All ground motions contain a broad range of frequencies and each structure is more or less sensitive to some of them. Of all the rigorous mathematical or engineering tools available to describe the frequency dependence of a seismic signal, none is simpler or more valuable, for design purposes, than the response spectrum which is a plot of the maximum response of all possible single-degree-of-freedom (SDOF) systems to a given dynamic excitation. The term “maximum response” may imply any quantity...

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  1. Department of Civil Engineering, University of Patras, 26504, Patras, Greece

    Dimitris L. Karabalis

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  1. Institute for Computer Science in Civil Engineering, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, University Hannover, Hannover, Germany

    Michael Beer

  2. Department of Civil Engineering & Engineering Mechanics, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

    Ioannis A. Kougioumtzoglou

  3. Institute for Risk & Uncertainty and Centre for Engineering Sustainability, Liverpool, UK

    Edoardo Patelli

  4. Institute for Risk & Uncertainty and Centre for Engineering Dynamics, Liverpool, UK

    Siu-Kui Au

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Karabalis, D.L. (2015). Earthquake Response Spectra and Design Spectra. In: Beer, M., Kougioumtzoglou, I.A., Patelli, E., Au, SK. (eds) Encyclopedia of Earthquake Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35344-4_115

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