Seismic Conceptual Design
Seismic Conceptual Design of Buildings – Basic principles for engineers, architects, building owners, and authorities
Hugo Bachmann
Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Federal Department of the Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications (DETEC)
Seismic Conceptual Design of Buildings – Basic principles for engineers, architects, building owners, and authorities
Hugo Bachmann
Impressum Editor: Quoting: Swiss Federal Office for Water and Geology Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation Hugo Bachmann: Seismic Conceptual Design of Buildings – Basic principles for engineers, architects, building owners, and authorities (Biel 2002, 81p.) Available in french and german. This publication is downloadable on the internet as a pdf file at www.bwg.admin.ch Design: Impression: Brotbeck Corporate Design, Biel 3’000e
Order Number: 804.802 e Adress: Copyright: BBL, Vertrieb Publikationen, CH-3003 Bern, Internet: www.bbl.admin.ch/bundespublikationen © BWG, Biel, 2003
Author’s Preface
For a long time earthquake risk was considered unavoidable. It was accepted that buildings would be damaged as a result of an earthquake’s ground shaking. Preventive measures for earthquakes were therefore mostly limited to disaster management preparedness. Although measures related to construction methods had already been proposed at the beginning of the 20th century, it is only during the last decades that improved and intensified research has revealed how to effectively reduce the vulnerability of structures to earthquakes. The objective of this document is to present recent knowledge on earthquake protection measures for buildings in a simple and easy to understand manner.
The chosen method explains basic principles by matching them with illustrations, examples, and an explanatory text. The principles, photographs (from the author or third parties), and the texts are the result of a long research and design activity in the challenging and strongly evolving
Hugo Bachmann
Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Federal Department of the Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications (DETEC)
Seismic Conceptual Design of Buildings – Basic principles for engineers, architects, building owners, and authorities
Hugo Bachmann
Impressum Editor: Quoting: Swiss Federal Office for Water and Geology Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation Hugo Bachmann: Seismic Conceptual Design of Buildings – Basic principles for engineers, architects, building owners, and authorities (Biel 2002, 81p.) Available in french and german. This publication is downloadable on the internet as a pdf file at www.bwg.admin.ch Design: Impression: Brotbeck Corporate Design, Biel 3’000e
Order Number: 804.802 e Adress: Copyright: BBL, Vertrieb Publikationen, CH-3003 Bern, Internet: www.bbl.admin.ch/bundespublikationen © BWG, Biel, 2003
Author’s Preface
For a long time earthquake risk was considered unavoidable. It was accepted that buildings would be damaged as a result of an earthquake’s ground shaking. Preventive measures for earthquakes were therefore mostly limited to disaster management preparedness. Although measures related to construction methods had already been proposed at the beginning of the 20th century, it is only during the last decades that improved and intensified research has revealed how to effectively reduce the vulnerability of structures to earthquakes. The objective of this document is to present recent knowledge on earthquake protection measures for buildings in a simple and easy to understand manner.
The chosen method explains basic principles by matching them with illustrations, examples, and an explanatory text. The principles, photographs (from the author or third parties), and the texts are the result of a long research and design activity in the challenging and strongly evolving