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978-3-030-57434-5

Aging, Shaking, and Cracking of Infrastructures : From Mechanics to Concrete Dams and Nuclear Structures / Victor E. Saouma, M. Amin Hariri-Ardebili

Publication year: 2021

ISBN: 978-3-030-57434-5

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Focuses on the safety assessment of existing structures subjected to multi-hazard scenarios through advanced numerical methods. Whereas the focus is on concrete dams and nuclear containment structures, the presented methodologies can also be applied to other large-scale ones. This book is composed of seven sections: Fundamentals: theoretical coverage of solid mechnics, plasticity, fracture mechanics, creep, seismology, dynamic analysis, probability and statistics Damage: that can affect concrete structures, such as cracking of concrete, AAR, chloride ingress, and rebar corrosion, Finite Element: formulation for both linear and nonlinear analysis including stress, heat and fracture mechanics, Engineering Models: for soil/fluid-structure interaction, uncertainty quantification, probablilistic and random finite element analysis, machine learning, performance based earthquake engineering, ground motion intensity measures, seismic hazard analysis, capacity/fragility functions and damage indeces, Applications to dams through potential failure mode analyses, risk-informed decision making, deterministic and probabilistic examples, Applications to nuclear structures through modeling issues, aging management programs, critical review of some analyses, Other applications and case studies: massive RC structures and bridges, detailed assessment of a nuclear containment structure evaluation for license renewal.


Subject: Building Repair, Geoengineering, Numerical Analysis, Building Maintenance, Offshore Engineering, Nonlinear Optics, Structural Health Monitoring, Dam Engineering, Probabalistic Method, Numerical Methods, Infrastructure