CEE611: Earthquake Engineering

Credits: 3

Lectures: Mondays and Wednesdays, 4:30 - 6:00 pm, 2305 G. G. Brown

Instructor: Jerome P. Lynch, 2380 G.G. Brown, (734) 615-5290, jerlynch@umich.edu.

Office hours: Mondays, 3:30 - 4:30 pm, 2380 G. G. Brown (please respect the office hours)

Textbook and optional references:

• Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering, S. L. Kramer (Prentice Hall, 1996) - Required
• Dynamics of Structures: Theory and Applications to Earthquake Engineering, A. Chopra (Prentice Hall, 2006) - Required
• International Building Code 2009, International Code Council (ICBO, 2009) - Optional
• Earthquake Engineering Handbook, W.-F. Chen and C. Scawthorn (CRC Press, 2003) - Optional

Course requirements:

• Regular attendance
• Regular homework assignments
• Small Projects
• Midterm exam (In Class/Open Book)

Grading: Homework 30%, midterm 30%, projects 40%. These weights are approximate; the right to change them later is reserved.

Make-up Classes: Due to unavoidable travel of the instructor, make-up classes might be required. Friday mornings, from 8 to 9:30 am, should be kept available.

Prerequisites:

• CEE511 Structural Dynamics or equivalent

Catalog description: This course is to serve as an introduction to the multi-disciplinary field of earthquake engineering. Topics covered in the course include tectonics, ground motion characterization, probabilistic hazard analysis, response spectra, inelastic structural analysis, and performance-based earthquake-resistant design.

Announcements

• [Jan 05-11] Welcome to CEE611 Earthquake Engineering

Support Notes

• Class 1 Notes - Structure of the Earth
• Class 2 Notes - Evidence of Tectonic Theory
• Class 3 Notes - Earthquake Properties
• Class 4 Notes - Earthquake Intensity Measures
• Class 5 Notes - Time-History Records of Earthquakes
• Class 6 Notes - Time Domain Properties of Earthquakes
• Class 7 Notes - Frequency Domain Properties of Earthquakes
• Class 8 Notes - Estimation of Ground Motion Parameters
• Class 9 Notes - Estimation of Frequency Domain Properties
• Class 10 Notes - Deterministic Seismic Hazard Analysis
• Class 11 Notes - Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis: Source and Recurrence
• Class 12 Notes - Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis: Temporal Uncertainty and Hazard Curves
• Class 13 Notes - Seismic Design Codes
• Class 14 Notes - Lateral Force Design Procedure in IBC 2003

Handouts

• Course Outline
• Class Schedule
• Why Deep Earthquakes Should Not Happen (Scientific American 1994)
• Processing Seismographs (by Tony Shakal et al.)
• DSHA Case Study - Oregon Dams (by Hull et al.)

Homework

• Homework 1 - [solutions]
• Homework 2 - [solutions]
• Homework 3 - [solutions]
• Homework 4 - [solutions]

Term Paper

• Term Paper Assignment
• ASCE Paper Template