Seismic loading This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Seismic_loading".
Seismic loading is one of the basic concepts of earthquake engineering which means application of an earthquake-generated agitation to a structure. It happens at contact surfaces of a structure either with the ground 1, or with adjacent structures 2, or with gravitational waves from tsunami.
Seismic loading depends, primarily, on:
Sometimes, seismic load exceeds ability of a structure to resist it without being broken, partially or completely. Due to their mutual interaction, seismic loading and seismic performance of a structure are intimately related.
