Seismic Resistance of Buildings and Constructions

Description: Fundamentals of earthquake engineering, parameters of seismic loads, history of development of calculation methods. Normative as well as numerical approach to the determination of seismic loads. Basic information on seismic protection and seismic isolation. Current issues of strengthening the existing buildings and structures built without taking into account the possible impact of seismic loads.

Amount of credits: 5

Пререквизиты:

• Building Constructions

Course Workload:

Component: Component by selection

Cycle: Profiling disciplines

Goal

• Assessment of seismic hazard of territories from the standpoint of seismological engineering, selection of space-planning and structural solutions of seismic safe buildings and structures

Objective

• Study of natural and engineering-geological factors, the dynamic nature of loads and their impact on buildings and structures, the choice of engineering solutions to ensure seismic safety

Learning outcome: knowledge and understanding

• Ability to use the principles of engineering seismology and features of seismic effects to find space-planning and structural solutions that ensure seismic safety of buildings and structures.

Learning outcome: applying knowledge and understanding

• Ability to choose ways of seismic protection of building structures under destructive earthquakes

Learning outcome: formation of judgments

• Ability to show the technical and economic efficiency of designing seismic strengthening systems for buildings compared to the cost of rebuilding them after a destructive earthquake

Learning outcome: communicative abilities

• Ability to use normative and technical documentation on earthquake intensity assessment and design of buildings and structures in earthquake-prone areas of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Learning outcome: learning skills or learning abilities

• Ability to implement new methods of seismic protection of buildings, the use of lightweight building structures, the development of innovative protective design solutions that increase seismic safety

Teaching methods

Traditional technologies are provided for teaching: classroom instruction and independent work of students. The lecture course is presented in multimedia form. Motivational speech is used when presenting lecture material at the beginning and at the end of the lecture. Text, audio and video information, graphs, tables, etc. are used in the lecture-presentation and practical classes.

Assessment of the student's knowledge

Teacher oversees various tasks related to ongoing assessment and determines students' current performance twice during each academic period. Ratings 1 and 2 are formulated based on the outcomes of this ongoing assessment. The student's learning achievements are assessed using a 100-point scale, and the final grades P1 and P2 are calculated as the average of their ongoing performance evaluations. The teacher evaluates the student's work throughout the academic period in alignment with the assignment submission schedule for the discipline. The assessment system may incorporate a mix of written and oral, group and individual formats.

The evaluating policy of learning outcomes by work type

Evaluation form

The student's final grade in the course is calculated on a 100 point grading scale, it includes:

• 40% of the examination result;
• 60% of current control result.

The final grade is calculated by the formula:

 

Where Midterm 1, Midterm 2are digital equivalents of the grades of Midterm 1 and 2;

E is a digital equivalent of the exam grade.

Final alphabetical grade and its equivalent in points:

The letter grading system for students' academic achievements, corresponding to the numerical equivalent on a four-point scale:

Topics of lectures

• General characteristics of earthquakes and assessment of their consequences
• Estimating the intensity of earthquakes
• Earthquake prediction
• Nature of earthquake damage
• Calculation of buildings and structures for seismic loads
• Dynamic characteristics of building materials and structures
• The requirements of earthquake-resistant construction to the volumetric planning and urban solutions
• Basic requirements for structural solutions of buildings and structures
• Buildings with special seismic protection systems
• Restoration of buildings damaged by earthquakes
• Passportization of existing buildings in earthquake-prone areas

Key reading

• SN RK 2.03-28-2004. Shkala dlya ocenki intensivnosti zemletryasenij MSK-64(K)/ Komitet po delam str-va i ZhKH Min-va ind. i torgovli RK, - Almaty, 2004. - 16 s.
• Mahiev B.E., Hapin A.V. Opredelenie usilij ot sejsmicheskih nagruzok: MU k prakticheskim zanyatiyam. - Ust-Kamenogorsk: VKGTU, 2015. - 48 s.
• SP RK EN 1998-1:2004/2012. Proektirovanie sejsmostojkih konstrukcij. Chast 1. Obshie pravila, sejsmicheskie vozdejstviya i pravila dlya zdanij. Komitet po delam str. i ZhKH Min-va nac. ekonomiki RK. – Astana 2016. – 224 s
• SP RK EN 1998-3:2005/2012. Proektirovanie sejsmostojkih konstrukcij. Chast 3. Ocenka i rekonstrukciya zdanij. Komitet po delam str. i ZhKH Min-va nac. ekonomiki RK. – Astana, 2016. – 85 s.
• SP RK 2.03-30-2017 Stroitelstvo v sejsmicheskih rajonah. Komitet po delam stroitelstva i zhilishno-kommunalnogo hozyajstva Ministerstva po investiciyam i razvitiyu Respubliki Kazahstan. - Astana 2018

Further reading

• Martemyanov A.I. Proektirovanie i stroitelstvo zdanij i sooruzhenij v sejsmicheskih rajonah: Ucheb. posobie dlya vuzov.- M.: Strojizdat, 2005 – 255 s.
• Zhunusov T.Zh. Osnovy sejsmostojkosti sooruzhenij.- Alma-Ata: Rauan, 2010 – 270 s.
• Proizvodstvo i kontrol kachestva stroitelnyh rabot. Uchebno-metodicheskoe posobie. – Almaty, 2010