هندسة الزلازل

هندسة الزلازل هى دراسة تصرف المباني ومواد المنشآت تحت تأثير الزلازل. وهى جزء من الهندسة المدنية أو بشكل اخص هندسة الانشاءات.

الأهداف الأساسية من هندسة الزلازل هي:

• فهم التفاعل بين المباني أو البنية التحتية المدنية و الأرض.
• التنبؤ بالنتائج المحتملة من الهزات الأرضية.
• تصميم, بناء, و إصلاح المباني للعمل خلال التعرض للهزة الأرضية في حدود التوقعات و الاتفاق مع أكواد المباني المسجلة في هذه المنطقة.

المنشأة الهندسية الملائمة لا يجب أن تكون قوية أو غالية. الأدوات والميزانية الأقوى لهندسة الزلازل هى تقنيات السيطرة على الاهتزاز و خاصة عزل القاعدة.

اختبار الهزة الأرضية و عملية فصل القاعدة

أطول ناطحة سحاب

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 أبحاث هندسة الزلازل

Shake-table testing of Friction Pendulum Bearings at EERC

Major earthquake engineering research centers in the United States and worldwide

أنشطة أبحاث هندسة الزلازل worldwide are mostly associated with the following centers:

• Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI)
• Earthquake Engineering Research Center
• Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER)
• John A. Blume Earthquake Engineering Center
• Consortium of Universities for Research in Earthquake Engineering (CUREE)
• Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (MCEER)
• George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES)
• USGS Earthquake Hazards Program
• Office of Earthquake Engineering at Caltrans
• Earthquake Engineering Research Centre of Iceland
• Earthquake Engineering New Zealand
• Canadian Research Centers and Research Groups on Earthquake Engineering
• Hyogo Earthquake Engineering Research Center
• Laboratory for Earthquake Engineering of NTUA
• Earthquakes and Earthquake Engineering in The Library of Congress
• International Institute of Earthquake Engineering and Seismology
• National Center for Research on Earthquake Engineering

 برامج الأبحاث الأمريكية الرئيسية

Large High Performance Outdoor Shake Table, UCSD, NEES network

NEES at Buffalo testing facility

 محاكاة المنشآت

Concurrent experiments with two building models which are kinematically equivalent to a real prototype.

Mausoleum of Cyrus, the oldest base-isolated structure in the world

 Dry-stone walls control

Dry-stone walls of Machu Picchu Temple of the Sun, Peru

 Seismic design

San Francisco City Hall destroyed by 1906 earthquake and fire.

San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake and fire

 Failure modes

Failure mode is the manner by which an earthquake induced failure is observed. It, generally, describes the way the failure occurs. Though costly and time consuming, learning from each real earthquake failure remains a routine recipe for advancement in seismic design methods. Below, some typical modes of earthquake-generated failures are presented. For information on the photographer and/or the agency that released corresponding images, usually accompanied with brief comments which were used, with sincere gratitude, here and there in this section, click on the thumb nearby.

Typical damage to unreinforced masonry buildings at earthquakes

The lack of reinforcement coupled with poor mortar and inadequate roof-to-wall ties can result in substantial damage to an unreinforced masonry building. Severely cracked or leaning walls are some of the most common earthquake damage. Also hazardous is the damage that may occur between the walls and roof or floor diaphragms. Separation between the framing and the walls can jeopardize the vertical support of roof and floor systems.

Soft story collapse due to inadequate shear strength at ground level, Loma Prieta earthquake

Soft story effect. Absence of adequate shear walls on the ground level caused damage to this structure. A close examination of the image reveals that the rough board siding, once covered by a brick veneer, has been completely dismantled from the studwall. Only the rigidity of the floor above combined with the support on the two hidden sides by continuous walls, not penetrated with large doors as on the street sides, is preventing full collapse of the structure.

Effects of soil liquefaction during the 1964 Niigata earthquake

Soil liquefaction. In the cases where the soil consists of loose granular deposited materials with the tendency to develop excessive hydrostatic pore water pressure of sufficient magnitude and compact, liquefaction of those loose saturated deposits may result in non-uniform settlements and tilting of structures. This caused major damage to thousands of buildings in Niigata, Japan during the 1964 earthquake.

Car smashed by landslide rock, 2008 Sichuan earthquake

Landslide rock fall. A landslide is a geological phenomenon which includes a wide range of ground movement, including rock falls. Typically, the action of gravity is the primary driving force for a landslide to occur though in this case there was another contributing factor which affected the original slope stability: the landslide required an earthquake trigger before being released.

Effects of pounding against adjacent building, Loma Prieta

Pounding against adjacent building. This is a photograph of the collapsed five-story tower, St. Joseph's Seminary, Los Altos, California which resulted in one fatality. During Loma Prieta earthquake, the tower pounded against the independently vibrating adjacent building behind. A possibility of pounding depends on both buildings' lateral displacements which should be accurately estimated and accounted for.

Effects of completely shattered joints of concrete frame, Northridge

At Northridge earthquake, the Kaiser Permanente concrete frame office building had joints completely shattered, revealing inadequate confinement steel, which resulted in the second story collapse. In the transverse direction, composite end shear walls, consisting of two wythes of brick and a layer of shotcrete that carried the lateral load, peeled apart because of inadequate through-ties and failed.

Earthquake damage in Pichilemu.

If a superstructure is not mounted on a base isolation system, its shifting on the basement should be prevented.

Insufficient shear reinforcement let main rebars to buckle, Northridge

Reinforced concrete column burst at Northridge earthquake due to insufficient shear reinforcement mode which allows main reinforcement to buckle outwards. The deck unseated at the hinge and failed in shear. As a result, the La Cienega-Venice underpass section of the 10 Freeway collapsed.

Support-columns and upper deck failure, Loma Prieta earthquake

Loma Prieta earthquake: side view of reinforced concrete support-columns failure which triggered the upper deck collapse onto the lower deck of the two-level Cypress viaduct of Interstate Highway 880, Oakland, CA.

Failure of retaining wall due to ground movement, Loma Prieta

Retaining wall failure at Loma Prieta earthquake in Santa Cruz Mountains area: prominent northwest-trending extensional cracks up to 12 cm (4.7 in) wide in the concrete spillway to Austrian Dam, the north abutment.

Lateral spreading mode of ground failure, Loma Prieta

Ground shaking triggered soil liquefaction in a subsurface layer of sand, producing differential lateral and vertical movement in an overlying carapace of unliquified sand and silt. This mode of ground failure, termed lateral spreading, is a principal cause of liquefaction-related earthquake damage.

Beams and pier columns diagonal cracking, 2008 Sichuan earthquake

Severely damaged building of Agriculture Development Bank of China after 2008 Sichuan earthquake: most of the beams and pier columns are sheared. Large diagonal cracks in masonry and veneer are due to in-plane loads while abrupt settlement of the right end of the building should be attributed to a landfill which may be hazardous even without any earthquake, see video footage at.

Tsunami strikes Ao Nang,

Twofold tsunami impact: sea waves hydraulic pressure and inundation. Thus, the Indian Ocean earthquake of December 26, 2004, with the epicenter off the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, triggered a series of devastating tsunamis, killing more than 230,000 people in eleven countries by inundating surrounding coastal communities with huge waves up to 30 meters (100 feet) high. For a video footage of the tsunami propagation, click on.

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 Earthquake-Resistant construction

Earthquake construction means implementation of seismic design to enable building and non-building structures to live through the anticipated earthquake exposure up to the expectations and in compliance with the applicable building codes.

Construction of Pearl River Tower X-bracing to resist lateral forces of earthquakes and winds

 Adobe structures

Partially collapsed adobe building in Westmorland, كاليفورنيا

Around thirty percent of the world's population lives or works in earth-made construction. Adobe type of mud bricks is one of the oldest and most widely used building materials. The use of adobe is very common in some of the world's most hazard-prone regions, traditionally across Latin America, Africa, Indian subcontinent and other parts of Asia, Middle East and Southern Europe.

 Limestone and sandstone structures

Base-isolated City and County Building, Salt Lake City, Utah

 Timber frame structures

خطأ في إنشاء صورة مصغرة: الملف مفقود

Half-timbered museum buildings, Denmark, date from 1560

 Prestressed structures

Prestressed structure is the one whose overall integrity, stability and security depend, primarily, on a prestressing. Prestressing means the intentional creation of permanent stresses in a structure for the purpose of improving its performance under various service conditions.

Naturally pre-compressed exterior wall of Colosseum, Rome

There are the following basic types of prestressing:

• Pre-compression (mostly, with the own weight of a structure)
• Pretensioning with high-strength embedded tendons
• Post-tensioning with high-strength bonded or unbonded tendons

Today, the concept of prestressed structure is widely engaged in design of buildings, underground structures, TV towers, power stations, floating storage and offshore facilities, nuclear reactor vessels, and numerous kinds of bridge systems.

 Steel structures

Collapsed section of the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge in response to Loma Prieta earthquake

 انظر أيضاً

• List of international earthquake acceleration coefficients
• Probabilistic risk assessment
• Soil structure interaction
• Spectral acceleration

 وصلات خارجية

• هندسة الزلازل at the Open Directory Project
• Seismic Risk Analysis using GIS: Evaluation of Structural Damage to Buildings and Loss Estimation
• EERI website
• Consortium of Universities for Research in Earthquake Engineering (CUREE)
• George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation
• USGS Earthquake Hazards Program
• Earthquakes and Earthquake Engineering in The Library of Congress
• Infrastructure Risk Research Project at The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
• Earthquake engineering