Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering

1. Front Matter

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2. PART 1 KNOWLEDGE OF SOIL MECHANICS

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Basic Principles in Soil Mechanics

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      Pages 3-28

3. PART 2 PROBLEMS CONCERNING SHAKING OF SOFT GROUND UNDERGOING EARTHQUAKE LOADING

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 29-29

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   2. Introduction

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      Pages 31-34

   3. Seismological Knowledge

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      Pages 35-41

   4. Wave Propagation in Elastic Medium

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      Pages 42-58

   5. Earthquake Effects

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      Pages 59-86

   6. Dynamic Response Analysis

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      Pages 87-119

   7. Pseudostatic Limit Equilibrium Analysis

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      Pages 120-128

   8. Field Investigation

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      Pages 129-148

   9. Dynamic Response of Complex-Modulus Model

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      Pages 149-179

   10. Laboratory Tests on Dynamic Properties of Soils

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       Pages 180-216

   11. Stress-Strain Models

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       Pages 217-234

   12. Application of Seismic Inertia Force

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   13. Seismic Force Exerted on Structures

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   14. Seismic Behavior of Slopes and Embankments

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       Pages 270-289

   15. Landslides

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       Pages 290-313

   16. Seismic Faults

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       Pages 314-339

4. PART 3 LIQUEFACTION

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This book is a product of my long-term activities in both education and research. Its publication was made possible by a financial support supplied by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. As for education, I was told for the first time in 1985 to teach soil dynamics in Asian Institute of Technology in Bangkok, Thailand. I collected experimental and field findings from many publications and made a small series of handouts. Since computer technologies were not well advanced in mid 80s, the handouts were products of cut-and-paste in the physical sense. Many pages were even handwritten. Afterwards, I started to teach the same subject in 1995 at University of Tokyo. Since then I have added more information from field investigation and laboratory tests as well as analyses. It has become possible to put all in an electronic media that makes teaching easier. Readers can find that this book includes Japanese writing among English text. This is because I use this text for teaching in Tokyo. The main aim of this book is a collection of data which is useful in understanding the state-of-art technology and its application to new topics. Understanding the fundamental issues is important because practice makes use of many assumptions, hypotheses, and way of thinking. It has been my policy to show reasons why practice employs those ideas by showing experimental and field backgrounds. This idea does not change even today.

• Earth Pressure
• Effective Stress Analysis
• Field Investigation
• Ground Motion
• earthquake
• geotechnical engineering
• seismic
• soil mechanics

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)

• University of Tokyo, Japan

  Ikuo Towhata

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