Overview
Earthquake engineering is concerned with limiting the seismic risk to socio-economically acceptable levels
The protection of natural and man-made environments as well as precautions for the social impact of natural hazards are the important features of this publication
Experts from all over world contribute to the work
Cross-disciplinary and cross-domain information to domain-experts
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About this book
covering all major aspects of the science of earthquake engineering, specifically focusing on the interaction
between earthquakes and infrastructure. The encyclopedia comprises approximately 300 contributions. Since earthquake engineering deals with the interaction between earthquake disturbances and the built infrastructure, the emphasis is on basic design processes important to both non-specialists and engineers so that readers become suitably well informed without needing to deal with the details of specialist understanding. The encyclopedia’s content provides technically-inclined and informed readers about the ways in which earthquakes can affect our infrastructure and how engineers would go about designing against, mitigating and remediating these effects. The coverage ranges from buildings, foundations, underground construction, lifelines and bridges, roads, embankments and slopes. The encyclopedia also aims to provide cross-disciplinary and cross-domain information to domain-experts. This is the first single reference encyclopedia of this breadth and scope that brings together the science, engineering and technological aspects of earthquakes and structures.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
The Editors have gathered their complementary experience and expertise in universities worldwide and on different professional trajectories.
Michael Beer, Dr.-Ing., obtained his degrees in civil engineering from the Technical University of Dresden, Germany. He worked at Rice University as a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation and held a faculty position at National University of Singapore in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Dr. Beer was a professor and the founding director of the Institute for Risk and Uncertainty in the University of Liverpool. He is now professor and head of the Institute for Computer Science in Civil Engineering at Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University Hannover, Germany, as well as a guest professor in Tongji University, Shanghai, China and a part-time professor in the Institute for Risk and Uncertainty, University of Liverpool.
Ioannis Kougioumtzoglou, Ph.D., obtained his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the civil and environmental engineering department of Rice University, Texas, USA. He also holds a five-year Diploma in Civil Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece, and is a professional/chartered civil engineer in Greece. He is currently an assistant professor at the Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at Columbia University, New York, USA.
Edoardo Patelli, Ph.D., obtained his degrees in nuclear engineering and Ph.D. in radiation science and technology from the Politecnico di Milano, Italy. He worked at the Institute for Engineering Mechanics, University of Innsbruck, Austria. He is currently a lecturer in uncertainty and engineering at the Institute for Risk and Uncertainty at the University of Liverpool, UK, and the head of computational technology for the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Risk and Uncertainty Quantification. Patelli is also an honorary member of the National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan.
Siu-Kui Au, Ph.D., is a chartered civil engineer in Hong Kong and obtained his B.Eng. and M.Phil. from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology (USA). He is currently a professor of uncertainty, reliability and risk at the Institute for Risk and Uncertainty. Before joining Liverpool he has held faculty positions at the Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) and the City University of Hong Kong. He was a visiting professor at the Tokyo City University (Japan) and Wuhan University (China).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Encyclopedia of Earthquake Engineering
Editors: Michael Beer, Ioannis A. Kougioumtzoglou, Edoardo Patelli, Ivan Siu-Kui Au
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36197-5
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Springer Reference Engineering, Reference Module Computer Science and Engineering
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-36197-5Due: 26 February 2018
Number of Pages: 3200
Topics: Civil Engineering, Natural Hazards, Basics of Construction, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning