Academics

Elnashai coauthors second edition of earthquake engineering text

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Amr Elnashai, Harold and Inge Marcus Dean of Engineering at Penn State, and Luigi Di Sarno, assistant professor of earthquake engineering at the University of Sannio, Benevento, Italy, have released a second edition of their text “Fundamentals of Earthquake Engineering: From Source to Fragility.”

The second edition contains a contribution from Oh-Sung Kwon, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Toronto, Canada, on soil-structure interaction.

The first edition of the book was published in 2008 and was sold-out 18 months later. It has been and continues to be used as the course text for the graduate course in earthquake engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and many universities around the world. The book combines aspects of engineering seismology, structural and geotechnical earthquake engineering to give readers a deep understanding of response of structures and surrounding soil to earthquake ground motion, from the seismic source to the evaluation of actions and deformation required for design, and culminating with probabilistic fragility analysis that applies to individual as well as groups of buildings.

The second edition also includes material on the nature of earthquake sources and mechanisms, various methods for the characterization of earthquake input motion, effects of soil-structure interaction, damage observed in reconnaissance missions, modeling of structures for the purposes of response simulation, definition of performance limit states, fragility relationships derivation, features and effects of underlying soil, structural and architectural systems for optimal seismic response, and action and deformation quantities suitable for design.      

The book is suitable for graduate studies and advanced design practice.

 

Last Updated July 29, 2015