Fundamentals of Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering
This text essentially presents the fundamentals of soil dynamics and earthquake engineering for students, young faculty members and practising engineers and consultants. The book is the result of several long years spent in developing the text. The association of the author in the field of teaching, guiding research and providing consultancy services in geotechnical engineering during this period, has provided the opportunity to develop the text.
The text describes the fundamental features of soil dynamics and earthquake engineering— a new discipline of civil engineering which is also popularly known as geotechnical earthquake engineering. The text is a synthesis of various disciplines like geology, geophysics and engineering seismology, classical vibration theory together with probability and reliability analysis.
The theme is universal and multidimensional, multidisciplinary where physical and geophysical principles, mathematical theorems and good engineering practice mingle.
Earthquakes have been known for centuries and this text is another step in human endeavours to build earthquake resistant designs, which will ultimately minimize the loss of life and property.
This textbook is essentially meant for senior undergraduate students in civil engineering and architecture for a course in Soil-Structure Interaction Studies, and also covers the course in Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering for postgraduate civil engineering students specializing in the area of Soil Dynamics.
This book is also intended to provide valuable information to professional geotechnical consultants engaged in investigation, analysis and seismic design of earth retaining structures. The text will be extended to cover the requirements of foundation engineers. For teachers it is a useful reference guide too, for preparation of their lectures and for designing short courses in geotechnical earthquake engineering.
The ultimate goal of the author is to present the basics of soil dynamics and earthquake engineering as a first course to students who have no previous background of vibration theory or dynamics of elastic systems. In order to present soil-structure interactions in a sophisticated manner, a new demand for rigour in analysis has emerged.
This text addresses itself by adopting an approach that is mathematically as rigorous as possible, while attempting to provide a large degree of physical insight into principles of soil dynamics and their application to earthquake engineering.
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