Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering Simplified Analyses with Case St
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GEOTECHNICAL, GEOLOGICAL AND EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING Volume 9 Series Editor Atilla Ansal, Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute, Bo˘gazic¸i University, Istanbul, Turkey Editorial Advisory Board Julian Bommer, Imperial College London, U.K. Jonathan D. Bray, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A. Kyriazis Pitilakis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Susumu Yasuda, Tokyo Denki University, Japan
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Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering Simplified Analyses with Case Studies and Examples
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MILUTIN SRBULOV United Kingdom with Foreword of E.T.R. Dean
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Dr. Milutin Srbulov United Kingdom [email protected]
ISBN: 978-1-4020-8683-0
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Foreword
Measurable earthquakes occur very frequently in many parts of the world. For example, Shepherd (1992) lists 7283 earthquakes recorded in the Caribbean Antilles in the 22-year period 1964 to 1985, a rate of about 1 earthquake per day. Some were due to movements of highly stressed rock at more than 100 km below the ground surface (Shepherd and Aspinall, 1983). Similar high levels of activity are found in all seismically active regions of the world. As the earthquake vibrations travel from the source towards the ground surface, the energy spreads out and also dissipates, so that energy density reduces with distance from source. For the majority of events, shaking has reduced to levels that people cannot feel by the time it reaches the ground surface. For some events, sufficient energy reaches the surface for people to feel minor effects. For a few, the energy reaching the surface is sufficient to cause major damage. Since earthquake shaking is transmitted through ground, and since ground also supports buildings and other structures, the art and science of geotechnical engineering is an important part of earthquake engineering. A variety of concepts and techniques are detailed by Kramer (1996), Day (2002), Chen and Scawthorne (2003), and others. Some of the important geotechnical aspects are:
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The particle mechanical nature of soil (Mitchell and Soga, 2005; Lambe and Whitman, 1979) Terzaghi’s Principle of Effective Stress (Terzaghi et al, 1996) Linear, isotropic elastic models (Davis and Selvadurai, 1996) The theory of soil plasticity (Drucker et al., 1957; Davis and Selvadurai, 2002; Loret, 1990) The Mohr-Coulomb failure envelope (Lambe and Whitman, 1979; Das, 2004) The characterizat
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