Seismic Assessment and Rehabilitation of Existing Buildings
By: edited by S. Tanvir Wasti, Guney Ozcebe
Contributors: Ozcebe, Guney
Series: NATO Science Series: IV: Earth and Environmental Sciences, Proceedings of the NATO Science for Peace Workshop on Seismic Assessment and Rehabilitation of Existing Buildings Izmir, Turkey 13-14 May 2003>, 1568-1238 -- 29; NATO Science Series: IV: Earth and Environmental Sciences, Proceedings of the NATO Science for Peace Workshop on Seismic Assessment and Rehabilitation of Existing Buildings Izmir, Turkey 13-14 May 2003> -- 29.
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Dordrecht
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 564
ISBN-13: 9789401000215
Other titles: Proceedings of the NATO Science for Peace Workshop, Izmir, Turkey, from 13 to 14 May 2003
Description: This book will appeal to specialist engineers with enquiring minds and, in a broader sense, to all who live in buildings, especially those in a seismically active region. While the continual development of building codes permits the design of new construction to resist earthquake loads more effectively, a major problem is that buildings which may once have conformed to past seismic codes become structurally unacceptable according to today's codes and need upgrading or 'retrofitting'. Poor construction methods also result in buildings that do not conform to any codes. Existing 'vulnerable' buildings that require strengthening in earthquake-prone countries immensely outnumber all recent construction.