Seismic Design and Assessment of Bridges

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction

   • Andreas J. Kappos

   Pages 1-4

3. Modelling of Bridges for Inelastic Analysis

   • M. Saiid Saiidi, Antonio Arêde, Donatello Cardone, Pedro Delgado, Mauro Dolce, Matej Fischinger et al.

   Pages 5-84

4. Methods for Inelastic Analysis of Bridges

   • M. Nuray Aydınoğlu, Matej Fischinger, Tatjana Isaković, Andreas J. Kappos, Rui Pinho

   Pages 85-128

5. Case Studies and Comparative Evaluation of Methods

   • Tatjana Isaković, Antonio Arêde, Donatello Cardone, Pedro Delgado, Matej Fischinger, Andreas J. Kappos et al.

   Pages 129-212

6. Conclusions and Recommendations

   • Andreas J. Kappos, Tatjana Isaković

   Pages 213-217

7. Back Matter

   Pages 219-221

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The book focuses on the use of inelastic analysis methods for the seismic assessment and design of bridges, for which the work carried out so far, albeit interesting and useful, is nevertheless clearly less than that for buildings. Although some valuable literature on the subject is currently available, the most advanced inelastic analysis methods that emerged during the last decade are currently found only in the specialised research-oriented literature, such as technical journals and conference proceedings.

Hence the key objective of this book is two-fold, first to present all important methods belonging to the aforementioned category in a uniform and sufficient for their understanding and implementation length, and to provide also a critical perspective on them by including selected case-studies wherein more than one methods are applied to a specific bridge and by offering some critical comments on the limitations of the individual methods and on their relative efficiency.

The book should be a valuable tool for both researchers and practicing engineers dealing with seismic design and assessment of bridges, by both making the methods and the analytical tools available for their implementation, and by assisting them to select the method that best suits the individual bridge projects that each engineer and/or researcher faces.

• Bridges
• Earthquake engineering
• Inelastic analysis
• Seismic assessment
• Seismic design

• , Department of Civil Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

  Andreas J. Kappos

• , Dept. of Civil and Env. Eng. (258), Universityy of Nevada, Reno, USA

  M. Saiid Saiidi

• Kandilli Obs. and Earthquake Res. Inst., Department of Earthquake Engineering, Boğaziçi University, Çengelköy - Istanbul, Turkey

  M. Nuray Aydınoğlu

• Fac. of Civil and Geodetic Engineering, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

  Tatjana Isaković

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