1. Overview of seismic critical excitation method -- 2. Critical excitation for stationary and nonstationary random inputs -- 3. Critical excitation for nonproportionally damped structural systems -- 4. Critical excitation for acceleration response -- 5. Critical excitation for elastic-plastic response -- 6. Critical envelope function for nonstationary random earthquake input -- 7. Robust stiffness design for structure-dependent critical excitation -- 8. Critical excitation for earthquake energy input in SDOF system -- 9. Critical excitation for earthquake energy input in MDOF system -- 10. Critical excitation for earthquake energy input in soil-structure interaction system -- 11. Critical excitation for earthquake energy input in structure-pile-soil system -- 12. Critical excitation for earthquake energy input rate -- 13. Critical excitation for multi-component inputs -- 14. Critical excitation for elastic-plastic response using deterministic approach -- 15. Earthquake resilience evaluation of building structures with critical excitation methods.
Summary
This book introduces a new probabilistic and energy-based critical excitation approach to overcome several problems in the scientific and rational modelling of ground motions.
