Dynamic Behavior of Concrete and Seismic Engineering

Jacky Mazars is a Professor at the National Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble, France. He is an expert in mechanical behavior and durability of civil engineering structures.

• Preface . xiChapter 1. Dynamic Behavior of Concrete: Experimental Aspects 1François Toutlemonde and Gérard Gary1.1. Introduction 11.2. Tests in which the transient rate has little influence 101.3. Tests with transient phase conditioned interpretations 201.4. Other tests 291.5. Synthesis of the experimental data on concrete and associated materials 331.6. Conclusion 461.7. Bibliography 47Chapter 2. Dynamic Behavior of Concrete: Constitutive Models 55Patrice Bailly2.1. Dynamics of concrete structures 552.2. Fast dynamics applied to concrete 622.3. Scabbing 682.4. Effect of a shock wave on the structure of materials 692.5. Modeling types 702.6. Models 762.7. Conclusion 902.8. Bibliography 92Chapter 3. Seismic Ground Motion 95Pierre-Yves Bard3.1. Introduction 953.2. Measuring seismic motions 963.3. Quantitative characterization of seismic movements 983.4. Factors affecting seismic motions 1083.5. Conclusions 1203.6. Bibliography 121Chapter 4. Soil Behavior: Dynamic Soil-Structure Interactions 125Alain PeckerIntroduction 125 4.1. Behavior of soils under seismic loading 1264.2. Modeling soil behavior 1314.3. Linear soil-structure interactions  1434.4. Non-linear soil-structure interactions 1584.5. Bibliography 161Chapter 5. Experimental Methods in Earthquake Engineering 165Alain Millard, Pierre Pegon and Jean-Claude QuevalIntroduction 1655.1. The pseudo-dynamic method 1675.2. The conventional pseudo-dynamic method 1705.3. Continuous pseudo-dynamic method 1785.4. Final comments 1835.5. Shaking table tests 1845.6. Laws of similarity 1935.7. Instrumentation 1945.8. Loading 1955.9. Conclusion 1965.10. Bibliography 197Chapter 6. Experiments on Large Structures 201Patrick Paultre and Jean ProulxIntroduction 2016.1. Instrumentation 2026.2. Dynamic loads 2056.3. Data processing 2066.4. Application to buildings 2086.5. Bridge application 2136.6. Application to large dams 2206.7. Conclusion 2306.8. Acknowledgements 2306.9. Bibliography 230Chapter 7. Models for Simulating the Seismic Response of Concrete Structures 233Didier Combescure, Nicolas Ile, Jacky Mazars and Jean-Marie Reynouard7.1. Introduction 2337.2. Different discretization families 2347.3. Behavior laws for concrete 2407.4. A few examples with their validation through experiments  2507.5. Conclusions 2697.6. Bibliography 270Chapter 8. Seismic Analysis of Structures: Improvements Due to Probabilistic Concepts 273Jean-René Gibert8.1. Introduction 2738.2. The modal method 2748.3. Criticism of the modal method 2798.4. A few reminders about random processes 2808.5. Improvements to the modal method 2928.6. Direct calculation of the floor spectra 2978.7. Creation of synthetic signals and direct numerical integration 3018.8. Seismic analysis of non-linear behavior structures 3048.9. Conclusion 3238.10. Bibliography 323Chapter 9. Engineering Know-How: Lessons from Earthquakes and Rules for Seismic Design 327Philippe Bisch9.1. Introduction 3279.2. Lessons from earthquakes 3279.3. The aims of anti-seismic protection standards 3369.4. General design 3449.5. Behavior coefficients 3499.6. Designing and dimensioning reinforced concrete structure elements 3539.7. Conclusions 366 9.8. Bibliography 366List of Authors 369Index 373

"Begins by presenting the most frequently used experimental techniques in the study of the dynamic behavior of concrete." (AECCafé.com, 16 March 2011)