Strong Motion Instrumentation for Civil Engineering Structures

Most of the existing strong motion instrumentation on civil engineering structures is installed and operated as federal, state, university, industry or private applications, in many cases operated as a closed system. This hampers co-operation and data exchange, hampering the acquisition of strong motion and structural data, sometimes even within a single country. There is a powerful need to inform engineers of existing strong motion data and to improve the accessibility of data worldwide. This book will play a role in fulfilling such a need by disseminating state-of-the art information, technology and developments in the strong motion instrumentation of civil engineering structures. The subject has direct implications for the earthquake response of structures, improvements in design for earthquake resistance, and hazard mitigation.
Readership: Researchers in earthquake engineering, engineers designing earthquake resistant structures, and producers of strong motion recording equipment.

State-of The-Art Technology For Data Storage and Dissemination.- Structure Instrumentation In The California Strong Motion Instrumentation Program.- Learning From Seismic Response of Instrumented Buildings During The 1994 Northridge Earthquake.- New Developments In Health Monitoring For Civil Structures.- Experimental Dynamic Analysis of Historic Monuments and Buildings.- Utilization of Rapid Post-Earthquake Data By Utilities.- Analysis of Earthquake Records From Structures: An Overview.- Structural Monitoring of Bridges — An Overview.- Recording and Interpreting Earthquake Response of Full-Scale Structures.- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Seismic Strong-Motion Instrumentation Program.- Integrated Surface and Borehole Strong-Motion, Soil-Response Arrays in San Francisco, California.- Current and New Trends In Utilization of Data From Instrumented Structures.- Instrumentation of Dam Structures In Switzerland.- Strong Motion Networks: A Tool for the Assessment of Earthquake Response of Historical Monuments.- Wireless Monitoring and Low-Cost Accalerometers For Structures And Urban Sites.- The Need for Data From Instrumented Structures for an Optimal Control Approach to the Seismic Interaction between Adjacent Buildings.- Wireless Sensors for Structural Monitoring.- Puerto Rico Strong Motion Network and Instrumented Buildings.- Strong Motion Instrumentations of Dams In Macedonia Some Experience and Results.- An Effective Earthquake Monitoring Process For Emergency Response.- Estimation of Dynamic Characteristics of Ground and Structures With Microtremor Measurements — A Supportive Tool for Strong Ground Motion Instrumentation.- Strong Motion Instrumentation Of Buildings.- Current Status of Strong-Motion Monitoring and Notification At The United States Bureau ofReclamation.- Structural Vibration Monitoring System for the Bosporus Suspension Bridges.- Soil-Structure-Interaction and Seismic Isolation, an Inter-Disciplinary Investigation at the Multidisciplinary Seismic Test Site Incerc, Bucharest, Romania.- GPS In Dynamic Monitoring of Long-Period Structures.- Real Time Large Structure Monitoring Using The Inclination Sensor.- Monitoring Deformation On Karasu Viaduct Using GPS & Precise.- Seismic Monitoring of Nuclear Power Plants; An Approach To Optimal and More Accurate Seismic Data Processing and Interpretation Procedure.- Analysis of Data From Strong Motion Network In Fraser Delta, British Columbia, Canada.- On Identification of Damage In Structures Via Wave Travel Times.- Earthquake Motion Observation In and Around 8-Story SRC Building.- Instrumentation, Measurements and Numerical Analysis Bridges: An Example of The Cable-Stayed Bridge on Evripos Channel, Greece.- Damage Detection In Semi-Rigid Joint, RC Frames Subjected To Strong Motion Excitation.- Assessment of Seismic Hazard In Romania Based on 25 Years of Strong Ground Motion Instrumentation.- Measurement of Lateral Earth Pressures on an Embedded Foundation During Earthquakes.- Seismic Instrumentation of The 1–40 Mississippi River Bridge in Memphis, Tennessee.- Engineering and Seismometric Service in the Buildings of Tashkent and Tashkent Regions.- Stress Wave Propagation Due to a Moving Force: Comparison of FEM and BEM Solutions.- Strong Motion in Absorbing Nonlinear Medium and Problems of Their Registration.- Seismic Response Study of Two-Storey Building in Eilat Using Weak and Strong Motion Data.- Strong Motion Instrumentation For Structures of Civil Engineering and Economical Aspects of Planning of Territory of Big Cities.