Displacement Based Seismic Design of Structures Hardcover – May 24, 2007

This book is a bible for any structural designer having to do with earthquake resistant design today. This textbook convinces you from the start, it clearly explains why displacement based design is now a mature design method and is set to become the standard way of designing for earthquakes. Apart from that, the book is so elegantly written. I wish we could all write as clear as these authors. It is not so common to find a state of the art texbook so excellently written and researched.The only complaint: the book has numerous errata and the simbols list is very incomplete. There is room for a lot of improvement in these aspects, hopefully it will be corrected in future editions.

I recently graduated from a structural engineering grad program and found this book extremely useful for my research on PBD. The disk that accompanies the book is very useful however frustrating because the MATLAB code is for metric values.

Very good for advance study in field of seismic-structural engineering. Cover a very broadband of materials, starting from basic of nonlinear method thru very advance topics.The negative points is high price of book. Somehow the authors try to prove their opinions and judgments for some practical and still theoretical subjects which may mislead the reader.

Good book but,-CD is not running with Windows 7-Some programs in the CD is runnig with Windows Wista-it has an errate list,that is not my expectation.Omer Eksi(M.S.Civil Eng.+M.B.A)

This is the definitive reference on the displacement method of seismic design. It is complex but has many illustrative examples. A "must have" for those involved in seismic design.

Very useful tool, great explanations on seismic design.Although methods are based in some "black box" things like damping, is with no doubt a reference work.

This book is a great reference for structural engineers interested in seismic design. The only concern is the weight of the book (too heavy).

A great book for people who want to know the state of art in seismic design.