Dynamic Loading and Design of Structures
Preface
The dynamical behaviour of civil engineering structures has traditionally been tackled, for
design purposes, in an ‘equivalent static’ way, essentially by introducing magnification
factors for vertically applied loads and/or by specifying equivalent horizontal loads. Today the
availability of software able to deal explicitly with dynamic analysis of realistic structures
with many (dynamic) degrees of freedom, as well as the outcome of the valuable research
carried out in the various fields included under ‘Dynamics’, make this type of analysis a part
of everyday life in the design office.
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