Earthquake Disaster Simulation of Civil Infrastructures: From Tall Buildings to Urban Areas (Paperback)

Introduction.- High fidelity Computational Models for Earthquake Disaster Simulation of Tall Buildings.-Earthquake Disaster Simulation of Typical Supertall Buildings.- Comparison of Seismic Design and Resilience of Tall Buildings based on Chinese and US Design Codes.- Simplified Models for Earthquake Disaster Simulation of Supertall Buildings.- Seismic Resilient Outriggers and Multi-hazard Resilient Frames.- Building Models for City-scale Nonlinear Time-history Analyses.- Regional Seismic Loss Estimation of Buildings.- Visualization and High-performance Computing for City-scale Nonlinear Time-history Analyses.- Fire Following Earthquake and Falling Debris Hazards.- Emergency Response and Post-earthquake Recovery using City-scale Nonlinear Time-history Analysis.- Earthquake Disaster Simulation of Typical Urban Areas.- Conclusions.