Earthquake Loading Characterisation for Regions of Low to Moderate Seismicity
This article is the first in the special theme session (of the ASEM17 conference) which is aimed at helping engineering practitioners who are engaged in the structural design of buildings to attend to seismic considerations in a tectonically stable region of low or moderate seismic activities. The earthquake loading model is to be decided first in the design process and is the subject matter of the article As for all articles in the series no prior knowledge on earthquake engineering and structural dynamics is assumed of the readers. Basic principles and generic modelling techniques are explained in the early part of the article for the benefit of those who are not already familiar with the fundamentals. Later sections are fully devoted to the modelling of earthquake actions on rock, and flexible soil, sites in a low to moderate seismicity environment. These are important key features which should be of interests to both the regulators (code drafters) and the design practitioners.