THE HISTORY OF EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY AND RECENT DEVELOPMENTS OF NUMERICAL METHODS AND COMPUTER PROGRAMS AT CSI BERKELEY

摘要

The purpose of this paper is to summarize, from a personal viewpoint, some research in structural dynamics within the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of California at Berkeley during the period of 1950 to 1990. The second part of the paper is to present a few recently developed numerical algorithms for dynamic analysis that are required in the design of wind, wave and earthquake resistant structures. These algorithms have been incorporated into the SAP 2000 programs (developed by Computers and Structures, Inc. in Berkeley) and have been used in the analysis of hundreds of large structural systems. This most recent research and development work was conducted since the author's retirement in 1991 from teaching at the University.