FUNDAMENTALS OF EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING

PROPOSED COURSE OUTLINE

Muhammad Murtaza, (Lecturer)

CIVIL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT

SIR SYED UNIVERSIRTY OF ENGINEERING &
TECHNOLOGY

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FUNDAMENTALS OF EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING

COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course is designed to serve as a first course in earthquake engineering
at university level. Over the past few decades, earthquake engineering has
evolved as a branch of engineering dealing with the evaluation of earthquake
consequences and the mitigation of these consequences. It has become an
interdisciplinary subject connecting seismologist, structural and geotechnical
engineers, architects, urban planners, information technologist and social
scientists. This characteristic makes the subject both exciting and complex,
challenging its practitioners to keep alongside of wide range of rapidly
evolving disciplines.
The course is designed to undergraduate students, the concepts and
application of principles of geology, engineering seismology and geotechnical engineering that are necessary for earthquake structural
engineering graduates and researchers. It will provide students with an
understanding of latest applied structural earthquake engineering.

COURSE PREREQUISITES
Students pursuing this course are appreciated to first complete a course in
1. Engineering Geology
2. Structural analysis
Apart from these prerequisites, the course is designed in a manner that it
can still be taken independently of any prerequisite(s).

COURSE AIM & LEARNING OUTCOMES

As shown in the flow chart, the course is intended to understand the
mechanism of earthquake and its impact on societal systems .i.e. evaluation
of actions and deformations imposed by earthquake on structural systems.
The students will learn in detail about
1) Earthquake source parameters
2) Path and site characteristics

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Effect of geophysical and seismological features

Ground motion characteristics
Evaluation of structural response
Rationale behind design codes for earthquake resistant design
EARTHQUAKE CHARACTERISTICS
Causes, Measurements and Effects

RESPONSE OF STRUCTURES
Hierarchical System Characteristics Affecting
Response
EARTHQUAKE INPUT MOTION
Methods of Representing the Imposed Demands

RESPONSE EVALUATION
Modeling of Structures and Measurement of Response
Flow Chart: Learning Outcomes

COURSE CONTENTS
1. EARTHQUAKE CHRACTERISTICS
a. Causes Of Earthquake
i. Plate Tectonics Theory
ii. Faulting
iii. Seismic Waves
b. Measuring Earthquakes
i. Intensity
ii. Magnitude
iii. Intensity-Magnitude Relationship
c. Source-To-Site Effects
i. Directional Effects
ii. Site Effects
iii. Dispersion and Incoherence
d. Effects Of Earthquakes
i. Damage To Buildings And Life Lines
ii. Effects On The Ground
iii. Human And Financial Losses
2. RESPONSE OF STRUCTURES
a. Conceptual Framework

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i. Definitions