Strong Motion Instrumentation for Civil Engineering Structures [Paperback]

Most of the existing strong motion instrumentation on civil engineering structures is installed and operated as federal, state, university, industry or private applications, in many cases operated as a closed system. This hampers co-operation and data exchange, hampering the acquisition of strong motion and structural data, sometimes even within a single country. There is a powerful need to inform engineers of existing strong motion data and to improve the accessibility of data worldwide. This book will play a role in fulfilling such a need by disseminating state-of-the art information, technology and developments in the strong motion instrumentation of civil engineering structures. The subject has direct implications for the earthquake response of structures, improvements in design for earthquake resistance, and hazard mitigation.
Readership: Researchers in earthquake engineering, engineers designing earthquake resistant structures, and producers of strong motion recording equipment.State-of The-Art Technology For Data Storage and Dissemination.- Structure Instrumentation In The California Strong Motion Instrumentation Program.- Learning From Seismic Response of Instrumented Buildings During The 1994 Northridge Earthquake.- New Developments In Health Monitoring For Civil Structures.- Experimental Dynamic Analysis of Historic Monuments and Buildings.- Utilization of Rapid Post-Earthquake Data By Utilities.- Analysis of Earthquake Records From Structures: An Overview.- Structural Monitoring of Bridges  An Overview.- Recording and Interpreting Earthquake Response of Full-Scale Structures.- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Seismic Strong-Motion Instrumentation Program.- Integrated Surface and Borehole Strong-Motion, Soil-Response Arrays in San Francisco, California.- Current and New Trends In Utilization of Data From Instrumented Structures.- Instrumentation of Dam Structures In Switzerland.- Strong Motion Networks: A Tols5