Improving the Earthquake Resilience of Buildings

Dr. Izuru Takewaki is a Professor in the Department of Architecture and Architectural Engineering, College of Engineering, Kyoto University, Japan.  Dr. Takewaki authored more than 100 international journal papers and authored 4 monographs in English on Structural Optimization, Critical Excitation Methods and Structural Health Monitoring.  He serves as an editorial board member in several international journals (e.g. Engineering Structures, Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, Structural Control and Health Monitoring).  He is one of the Editors-in-Chief of Int J of Earthquakes and Structures.  Dr. Abbas Moustafa is an Associate Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering, Minia University, Egypt and the Chairman of the Department of Civil Engineering, High Institute of Engineering, Giza, Egypt. He is also a consultant engineer and head of structural group, Hamza Associates, Giza, Egypt. He has about 30 international journal papers and is the editor of two books on earthquake-resistant structures and geotechnical earthquake engineering. Dr. Moustafa was a JSPS fellow at Kyoto and Nagasaki Universities and was also a research associate at Vanderbilt University. Dr. Kohei Fujita is a post doctoral fellow in Kyoto University, Japan.  Dr. Fujita received a PhD from Kyoto University in 2012.  He authored more than 10 international journal papers.

1 Introduction.- 2. Earthquake resilience of high-rise buildings: Case study of the 2011 Tohoku (Japan) earthquake.- 3. Simulation of near-field pulse-like ground motion.- 4. Critical characterization and modeling of pulse-like near-field strong ground motion.- 5. Characteristics of earthquake ground motion of repeated sequences.- 6. Modeling critical ground-motion sequences for inelastic structures.- 7. Response of Nonlinear SDOF Structures to Random Acceleration Sequences.- 8. Use of deterministic and probabilistic measures to identify unfavorable earthquake records.- 9. Damage Assessment to Inelastic Structure Under Worst Earthquake Loads.- 10 Critical earthquake loads for SDOF inelastic structures considering evolution of seismic waves.- 11. Critical Correlation of Bi-Directional Horizontal Ground Motions.- 12. Optimal placement of viscoelastic dampers and supporting members under variable critical excitations.- 13 Earthquake response bound analysis of uncertain passively controlled buildings for robustness evaluation.- 14 Earthquake response bound analysis of uncertain base-isolated buildings for robustness evaluation.- 15. Future Directions.