Extreme Man-Made and Natural Hazards in Dynamics of Structures

Part I. NUMERICAL MODELLING AND DYNAMICS OF COMPLEX STRUCTURES

1. COMPUTATIONAL ISSUES IN THE SIMULATION OF BLAST AND IMPACT PROBLEMS: AN INDUSTRIAL PERSPECTIVE
D. R. J. Owen, Y. T. Feng, M. G. Cottrell, J. Yu

2. NONLINEAR TRANSIENT ANALYSIS AND DESIGN OF COMPLEX ENGINEERING STRUCTURES FOR WORST CASE ACCIDENTS : EXPERIENCE FROM INDUSTRIAL AND MILITARY APPLICATIONS
Adnan Ibrahimbegovic, D. Brancherie, J-B. Colliat, L. Davenne, N. Dominguez, G. Herve, P. Villon

3. ON RELIABLE FINITE ELEMENT METHODS FOR EXTREME LOADING CONDITIONS
K.-J Bathe

Part II. PROBABILITY ASPECTS, DESIGN AND UNCERTAINTY

4. QUANTIFYING UNCERTAINTY: MODERN COMPUTATIONAL REPRESENTATION OF PROBABILITY AND APPLICATIONS
Hermann G. Matthies

5. OPTIMUM PERFORMANCE-BASED RELIABILITY DESIGN OF STRUCTURES
M. Papadrakakis, M. Fragiadakis, N.D. Lagaros

Part III. FIRE AND EXPLOSION INDUCED EXTREME LOADING CONDITIONS

6. COMPUTATIONAL MODELLING OF SAFETY CRITICAL CONCRETE STRUCTURES AT ELEVATED TEMPERATURES
N. Bicanic, C. Pearce, C. Davie

7. THREE-DIMENSIONAL FE ANALYSIS OF HEADED STUD ANCHORS EXPOSED TO FIRE
J. Ozbolt, I. Kozar, G. Periški?

Part IV. FLUID FLOW INDUCED EXTREME LOADING CONDITIONS

8. DYNAMICS OF TSUNAMI WAVES
Frédéric Dias, Denys Dutykh

9. MODELLING FLUID-INDUCED STRUCTURAL VIBRATIONS: REDUCING THE STRUCTURAL RISK FOR STORMY WINDS
D. Peri?, W. Dettmer, P.H. Saksono

Part V. EARTHQUAKE INDUCED EXTREME LOADING CONDITIONS

10. SEISMIC ASSESSMENT OF STRUCTURES BY A PRACTICE-ORIENTED METHOD
P. Fajfar

11. REDUCING THE EARTHQUAKE INDUCED DAMAGE AND RISK IN MONUMENTAL STRUCTURES: EXPERIENCE AT ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTREAL FOR LARGE CONCRETE DAMS SUPPORTED BY HYDRO-QUEBEC AND ALCAN
P. Léger

12. EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH AT JRC-ELSA
F. Javier Molina

13. THE HISTORY OF EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY AND RECENT DEVELOPMENTS OF NUMERICAL METHODS AND COMPUTER PROGRAMS AT CSI BERKELEY
E.L. Wilson

Appendix. STATISTICS ON EXTREME LOADING CONDITIONS FOR CROATIA

14. SECURITY ISSUES IN CROTAIAN CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY: BASES OF STATISTICAL DATA FOR QUANTIFYING EXTREME LOADING CONDITIONS
P. Marovic, V. HERAK-MAROVIC

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