Extreme Man-Made and Natural Hazards in Dynamics of Structures

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-VIII

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2. NUMERICAL MODELLING AND DYNAMICS OF COMPLEX STRUCTURES

   1. Front Matter

      Pages I-VIII

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   2. COMPUTATIONAL ISSUES IN THE SIMULATION OF BLAST AND IMPACT PROBLEMS: AN INDUSTRIAL PERSPECTIVE

      • D. R. J. Owen, Y. T. Feng, M. G. Cottrell, J. Yu

      Pages 3-35

   3. NONLINEAR TRANSIENT ANALYSIS AND DESIGN OF COMPLEX ENGINEERING STRUCTURES FOR WORST CASE ACCIDENTS : EXPERIENCE FROM INDUSTRIAL AND MILITARY APPLICATIONS

      • Adnan Ibrahimbegovic, D. Brancherie, J-B. Colliat, L. Davenne, N. Dominguez, G. Herve et al.

      Pages 37-69

   4. ON RELIABLE FINITE ELEMENT METHODS FOR EXTREME LOADING CONDITIONS

      • K.-J Bathe

      Pages 71-102

3. PROBABILITY ASPECTS, DESIGN AND UNCERTAINTY

   1. Front Matter

      Pages I-VIII

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   2. QUANTIFYING UNCERTAINTY: MODERN COMPUTATIONAL REPRESENTATION OF PROBABILITY AND APPLICATIONS

      • Hermann G. Matthies

      Pages 105-135

   3. OPTIMUM PERFORMANCE-BASED RELIABILITY DESIGN OF STRUCTURES

      • M. Papadrakakis, M. Fragiadakis, N.D. Lagaros

      Pages 137-159

4. FIRE AND EXPLOSION INDUCED EXTREME LOADING CONDITIONS

   1. Front Matter

      Pages I-VIII

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   2. COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING OF SAFETY CRITICAL CONCRETE STRUCTURES AT ELEVATED TEMPERATURES

      • N. Bicanic, C. Pearce, C. Davie

      Pages 163-176

   3. THREE-DIMENSIONAL FE ANALYSIS OF HEADED STUD ANCHORS EXPOSED TO FIRE

      • J. Ozbolt, I. Kozar, G. Periškić

      Pages 177-198

5. FLUID FLOW INDUCED EXTREME LOADING CONDITIONS

   1. Front Matter

      Pages I-VIII

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   2. DYNAMICS OF TSUNAMI WAVES

      • Frédéric Dias, Denys Dutykh

      Pages 201-224

   3. MODELLING FLUID-INDUCED STRUCTURAL VIBRATIONS: REDUCING THE STRUCTURAL RISK FOR STORMY WINDS

      • D. Perić, W. Dettmer, P.H. Saksono

      Pages 225-254

6. EARTHQUAKE INDUCED EXTREME LOADING CONDITIONS

   1. Front Matter

      Pages I-VIII

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   2. SEISMIC ASSESSMENT OF STRUCTURES BY A PRACTICE-ORIENTED METHOD

      • P. Fajfar

      Pages 257-284

   3. REDUCING THE EARTHQUAKE INDUCED DAMAGE AND RISK IN MONUMENTAL STRUCTURES: EXPERIENCE AT ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTREAL FOR LARGE CONCRETE DAMS SUPPORTED BY HYDRO-QUEBEC AND ALCAN

      • P. Léger

      Pages 285-309

   4. EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH AT JRC-ELSA

      • F. Javier Molina

      Pages 311-351

   5. THE HISTORY OF EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY AND RECENT DEVELOPMENTS OF NUMERICAL METHODS AND COMPUTER PROGRAMS AT CSI BERKELEY

      • E.L. Wilson

      Pages 353-379

7. STATISTICS ON EXTREME LOADING CONDITIONS FOR CROATIA

   1. Front Matter

      Pages I-VIII

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There is currently ever pressing need to provide a critical assessment of the current knowledge and indicate new challenges which are brought by the present time in fighting the man-made and natural hazards in transient analysis of structures. The latter concerns both the permanently fixed structures, such as those built to protect the people and/or sensitive storage material (e. g. military installations) or the special structures found in transportation systems (e. g. bridges, tunnels), and the moving structures (such as trains, plains, ships or cars). The present threat of the terrorist attacks or accidental explosions, the climate change which brings strong stormy winds or yet the destructive earthquake motion that occurs in previously inactive regions or brings about tsunamis, are a few examples of the kind of applications we seek to address in this work. The common ground for all the problems of this kind from the viewpoint of structural integrity, which also justifies putting them on the same basis and addressing them within the same context, is their sudden appearance, their transient nature and the need to evaluate the consequence for a high level of uncertainty in quantifying the cause. The problems of such diversity cannot be placed within a single traditional scientific discipline, but they call for the expertise in probability theory for quantifying the cause, interaction problems for better understanding the physical nature of the problems, as well as modeling and computational techniques for improving the representation of inelastic behavior mechanisms and providing the optimal design.

• Halle
• LCM
• Probability theory
• STATISTICA
• computer
• concrete
• construction
• modeling
• numerical methods
• simulation
• statistics
• structure
• vibration

• Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan, France

  Adnan Ibrahimbegovic

• University of Rijeka, Croatia

  Ivica Kozar

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