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Geotechnical earthquake engineering /
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,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin :
Springer-Verlag,
2008.
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| Colección: | Springer series in geomechanics and geoengineering
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Knowledge of soil mechanics
- Basic principles in soil mechanics
- Problems concerning shaking of soft ground undergoing earthquake loading
- Seismological knowledge
- Wave propagation in elastic medium
- Earthquake effects
- Dynamic response analysis
- Pseudostatic limit equilibrium analysis
- Field investigation
- Dynamic response of complex-modulus model
- Laboratory tests on dynamic properties of soils
- Stress-strain models
- Application of seismic inertia force
- Seismic forces exerted on structures
- Seismic behavior of slopes and embankments
- Landslides
- Seismic faults
- Features of liquefaction-induced damages
- Mechanism of onset of liquefaction
- Assessment of liquefaction potential
- Behavior of soil undergoing cyclic undrained loading
- In-situ tests on liquefaction potential of subsoils
- Post-liquefaction behavior of sandy ground
- Immediate detection of liquefaction damage and emergency action
- Permanent displacement/deformation of liquefied subsoil
- Prediction of permanent displacement due to liquefaction
- Mitigation of liquefaction-induced damage
- Seismic microzonation.