TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chopra,Anil K.
TI  - Dynamics of structures: theory and applications to earthquake engineering 
SN  - 9780131561748 (hbk.) :
AV  - TA654.6 .C466 2007
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Upper Saddle River, N.J.
PB  - Pearson/Prentice Hall
KW  - Earthquake engineering
KW  - Structural dynamics
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Pt. I. Single-degree-of-freedom systems -- 1. Equations of motion, problem statement, and solution methods -- 2. Free vibration -- 3. Response to harmonic and periodic excitations -- 4. Response to arbitrary, step, and pulse excitations -- 5. Numerical evaluation of dynamic response -- 6. Earthquake response of linear systems -- 7. Earthquake response of inelastic systems -- 8. Generalized single-degree-of-freedom systems -- Pt. II. Multi-degree-of-freedom systems -- 9. Equations of motion, problem statement, and solution methods -- 10. Free vibration -- 11. Damping in structures -- 12. Dynamic analysis and response of linear systems --; 13. Earthquake analysis of linear systems -- 14. Reduction of degrees of freedom -- 15. Numerical evaluation of dynamic response -- 16. Systems with distributed mass and elasticity -- 17. Introduction to the finite element method -- Pt. III. Earthquake response and design of multistory buildings -- 18. Earthquake response of linearly elastic buildings -- 19. Earthquake analysis and response of inelastic buildings -- 20. Earthquake dynamics of base-isolated buildings -- 21. Structural dynamics in building codes -- 22. Structural dynamics in building evaluation guidelines -- A. Frequency-domain method of response analysis
ER  -