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Earthquake Engineering: Part 1 - Single-Degree-Of-Freedom (SDF) Systems

This document provides an overview of an earthquake engineering syllabus. It covers topics like single-degree-of-freedom and multiple-degree-of-freedom systems, free and forced vibrations, response spectra, ground motions, and code applications. It also introduces earthquake engineering, discussing the causes of earthquakes from tectonic movements, how they are measured in terms of magnitude and intensity, and the different types of seismic waves. Key concepts covered are the Philippine fault line, measuring instruments like seismographs, and how earthquake engineering integrates seismology, geology and structural engineering.

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Earthquake Engineering: Part 1 - Single-Degree-Of-Freedom (SDF) Systems

This document provides an overview of an earthquake engineering syllabus. It covers topics like single-degree-of-freedom and multiple-degree-of-freedom systems, free and forced vibrations, response spectra, ground motions, and code applications. It also introduces earthquake engineering, discussing the causes of earthquakes from tectonic movements, how they are measured in terms of magnitude and intensity, and the different types of seismic waves. Key concepts covered are the Philippine fault line, measuring instruments like seismographs, and how earthquake engineering integrates seismology, geology and structural engineering.

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EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING

Email Address: plm.notes.14.alcc@yahoo.com (Yahoo group)


TEXTBOOK:

Any textbook on Structural Dynamics

SYLLABUS
Introduction
Part 1 SINGLE-DEGREE- OF-FREEDOM (SDF) SYSTEMS

Free Vibrations
o Undamped Systems
o Damped Systems
o Free Vibration Test
Forced Vibrations
o Exact Mathematical Solution
o Duhamels Integral
o Resonance
o Forced Vibration Test
Ground Motions
Response Spectrum

Part 2 MULTIPLE-DEGREE- OF-FREEDOM (MDF) SYSTEMS

Free Vibrations
o Undamped Systems
o Damped Systems
o Free Vibration Test
Forced Vibrations
o Ground Motions

Part 3 CODE Applications

Code Equations

INTRODUCTION
CAUSES OF EARTHQUAKES

Explosions
Cave subsidence
Volcanic eruptions
Tectonic movements

TECTONIC EARTHQUAKE MEASUREMENTS

Magnitude
o Energy released at the source of the earthquake
o Richter scale, logarithmic
Intensity
o Effect at the site
o Mercalli (modified) scale, subjective scale

TYPES OF TECTONIC EARTHQUAKES


o Underthrust, subduction zone
o Strike slip

CAUSE OF TECTONIC EARTHQUAKES


o Earths crust is floating on molten mantle layer, earth continuously spinning and
revolving around the sun.
o Continuous movement of the floating tectonic plates
o Interlock between plate boundaries prevents movements
o Continuous accumulation of potential energy until the interlock is broken due to
excessive stress/potential energy and consequently, energy will be released.

EARTHQUAKE FAULTS Earthquake source or generator


o Line trace on the earth surface
o Area
o Volume

PHILIPPINE FAULT LINE


o The path is in the NSCP Vol. 1 seismic map.

o Boundary of the Pacific plate and the Asia plate, two major tectonic plates.

SEISMIC WAVES
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Surface waves direct and will reach the site first


Refracted waves or reflected waves
Body waves, Moment waves, Shear Waves
Rayleigh waves, Love waves
In general, the seismic waves will be affected by the soil or rock media that they
pass thru.

MEASURING INSTRUMENT SEISMOGRAPH


o Wood-Andersen Seismograph Invented in the 1930s? 40s? This seismograph
measured displacements
o Strong Motion Accelerographs (SMA) - Modern seismographs that measures
acceleration. More accurate specially when converting accelerations to
velocities and displacements.

EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING
o Seismology, Geology and Structural Engineering

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