- Presents comprehensively all issues of earthquake geotechnical engineering
- Offers the readers a slew of standard methods, theory and applications of geotechnical earthquake engineering that will be useful for engineers, graduate students and professionals
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- About this book
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This book presents all issues of earthquake geotechnical engineering in a comprehensive way. It summarizes the present knowledge on earthquake hazards and their causative mechanisms, experimental studies on nonlinear complex soil behaviour, an analysis to predict ground behaviour during earthquakes, field studies to determine nature of real ground as input data for analysis, and damage mitigation technologies. Information obtained from earthquake damage investigation (such as ground motion, landslides, earth pressure, fault action, or liquefaction) as well as data from laboratory tests and field investigation is supplied, together with exercises/questions.
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From the reviews:
"This book … is an encyclopedic assemblage of basic and practical science on state-of-the-art engineering technology dealing with the behavior of earth materials subject to earthquakes and derivative effects. … Hundreds of graphs, charts, and mathematical relationships are skillfully integrated with the text and photographs. This volume is truly monumental. It should be in the libraries of all geotechnical engineers and engineering geologists. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduate through professional collections." (T. L. T. Grose, Choice, Vol. 46 (2), October, 2008)
- Table of contents (27 chapters)
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Basic Principles in Soil Mechanics
Pages 3-28
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Introduction
Pages 31-34
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Seismological Knowledge
Pages 35-41
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Wave Propagation in Elastic Medium
Pages 42-58
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Earthquake Effects
Pages 59-86
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Table of contents (27 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering
- Authors
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- Ikuo Towhata
- Series Title
- Springer Series in Geomechanics and Geoengineering
- Copyright
- 2008
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- Copyright Holder
- Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
- Distribution Rights
- Distribution rights for India: CBS Publishers, New Delhi, India
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-540-35783-4
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-540-35783-4
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-540-35782-7
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-642-07145-4
- Series ISSN
- 1866-8755
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XX, 684
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