Obtaining knowledge necessary for aseismic design of construction structures.

Enabling students to calculate the influences in a structure due to earthquake action and to design seismically resistant structures in construction practice.

General on earthquakes: reasons of origin and types of earthquakes, seismic waves, characteristics of earthquake soil movement, earthquake registration, intensity of seismic action and seismic scales. Analysis of structure behaviour in earthquake action: constrained damped model vibrations due to dynamic foundation movement, response spectre methods, modal analysis. Designing seismically resistant structures: basic objectives and demands for seismic protection, design methodology, measures for decreasing seismic risk. Designing according to contemporary regulative: design requirements and criteria for buildings, bridges, support structures and other engineering facilities.

Lectures, numerical and graphic practice, tutorials. Practice is performed in groups using the programme that completely following the course content. Prerequisite for taking the examination are positively graded individual papers and the demanded success at partial examination or a defended seminar paper.