Download Seismic Design of Steel Structures Edit By Victor Gioncu and Federico Mazzolani
Contents Civil Engineering:
1 Failure of a myth
2 Steel against earthquakes
3 Challenges in seismic design
4 New generation of steel structures
5 Advances in steel beam ductility
6 Fire after earthquake
Preface Seismic Design of Steel Structures:
This volume completes the triad of books prepared by Victor Gioncu and myself. Their titles are
• Ductility of Seismic Resistant Steel Structures (2002)
• Earthquake and Structural Engineering (2011)
• Seismic Design of Steel Structures (2013)
Facing the task to write the Preface to this last volume, I am full of sorrow, crying for the recent absence of Victor. In fact, he passed away on 30 March 2013 in his hometown, Timisoara. First, we have to recognize that our academic community will miss an outstanding scientist, a refined researcher, an appreciated teacher, a clever designer, in one word, a very complete engineer. I am personally missing my best friend after many years of sincere friendship and fruitful scientific cooperation in writing papers and books as well as in participating together on research projects, conferences, seminars, and many other events.
I met Victor in Naples when he visited Italy for the first time in 1985, overcoming the difficulties to go abroad from Romania during the communist regime. Despite this, he was able to come again to Naples in December 1990, a few days before the commencement of the Romanian revolution. Since 1991, our frequentation was continuous, without any interruption, giving rise to our very effective cooperation. The Polytechnic University of Timisoara, after many years of isolation, was at last allowed to be involved in many European projects, and I was there for many scientific purposes at least once per year, with a great pleasure to join my new friends.
In 1994, Victor had a very brilliant idea: the problem of the behavior of seismic-resistant steel structures could become an important subject to be proposed at the international level by organizing an ad hoc forum for collecting the contributions of outstanding specialists working in this field. Based on this idea, we started the chain of specialty conferences that today are the well-known STESSA Conferences on the Behavior of Steel Structures in Seismic Areas.
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