An Impulse and Earthquake Energy Balance Approach in Nonlinear Structural Dynamics

Izuru Takewaki is a professor of building structures at Kyoto University and president of the Architectural Institute of Japan. Kotaro Kojima is an assistant professor of building structures at the Kyoto Institute of Technology.

1 Introduction

2 Critical earthquake response of an elastic–perfectly plastic SDOF model under double impulse as a representative of near-fault ground motions

3 Critical earthquake response of an elastic–perfectly plastic SDOF model under triple impulse as a representative of near-fault ground motions

4 Critical input and response of an elastic–perfectly plastic SDOF model under multi-impulse as a representative of long-duration earthquake ground motions

5 Critical earthquake response of an elastic–perfectly plastic SDOF model with viscous damping under double impulse

6 Critical steady-state response of a bilinear hysteretic SDOF model under multi-impulse

7 Critical earthquake response of an elastic–perfectly plastic SDOF model on compliant ground under double impulse

8 Closed-form dynamic collapse criterion for a bilinear hysteretic SDOF model under near-fault ground motions

9 Closed-form overturning limit of a rigid block as a SDOF model under near-fault ground motions

10 Critical earthquake response of a 2DOF elastic–perfectly plastic model under double impulse

11 Optimal viscous damper placement for an elastic–perfectly plastic MDOF building model under critical double impulse

12 Future directions