Earthquake Engineering.

Catalog description

This course is an overview of seismology. Course content includes determination of loads on structures due to earthquakes, methods of estimating equivalent static lateral forces, response spectrum and time history analysis. Other topics include concepts of mass, damping and stiffness for typical structures, design for inelastic behavior. Numerical solutions and code requirements. Prerequisites: Graduate or blended students in the School of Engineering and Computer Science and CIVL 100 with a "C" or better or permission of instructor.