PERFORMANCE-BASED DESIGN
June 5, 2014, Bangkok, Thailand
Instructor: Ashraf Habibullah (President and CEO, Computers & Structures, Inc.)
Registration Fee (includes Luncheon and refreshment breaks)
Regular Fee $125
ACECOMS Member Fee $50
A SEMINAR FOR EVERY PRACTICING ENGINEER BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN RESEARCH AND PRACTICE
Performance-based design is a major shift from traditional structural design concepts and represents the future of earthquake engineering. The procedure provides a method for determining acceptable levels of earthquake damage. Also, it is based on the recognition that yielding does not constitute failure and that preplanned yielding of certain members of a structure during an earthquake can actually help to save the rest of the structure. In this technology-packed seminar, Ashraf will present the theory and practical application of nonlinear analysis and performance-based design in terms and analogies that are very familiar to the practicing structural engineer. Attendees will leave the seminar empowered with a clear understanding of this new technology.
The seminar will feature CSI products related to earthquake engineering that are recognized as the standard tools for research and education. The software such as SAP2000, ETABS, SAFE, and CSICol are used by thousands of engineering firms in over 160 countries. ACECOMS at AIT is actively involved in the regionalization, regional promotion and support of high-quality professional software from Computers and Structures Inc.
The seminar will address many fundamental questions, such as:
- Why do we even need to talk about nonlinear analysis?
- What is really meant by energy dissipation and why it is important?
- What is a time-energy diagram and why is it so important in seismic design?
- What is deformation capacity and why it is more important than strength capacity?
- What we really mean by ductility and why strength without ductility is useless?
- What is a material model, a fiber model and a hysteresis loop?
Note
The seminar will feature CSI products related to earthquake engineering that are recognized as the standard tools for research and education. The software such as SAP2000, ETABS, SAFE, and CSICol are used by thousands of engineering firms in over 160 countries. ACECOMS at AIT is actively involved in the regionalization, regional promotion and support of high-quality professional software from Computers and Structures Inc.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Ashraf Habibullah, a registered Civil and Structural Engineer founded CSI in 1975. He graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1970 with a master’s degree in structural engineering. He received the Structural Engineers Association of Northern California (SEAONC) H. J. Brunnier Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Structural Engineering for his great contribution to the development of efficient and usable structural analysis programs that has modernized structural engineering practice around the globe. He co-created the first structural engineering software available to the personal computer, and has since created a suite of products, and enhanced their capabilities. Today the software is used by thousands of engineering firms in over 160 countries for the design of major projects, including the One World Trade Center in New York, the Burj-e-Khalifa in Dubai, the 2008 Olympics “Bird’s Nest” Stadium in Beijing and the Centenario Bridge over the Panama Canal.
