Practical Soil Dynamics Case Studies in Earthquake and Geotechnical
The objective of this book is to fill some of the gaps in the existing engineering codes and standards related to soil dynamics, concerning issues in earthquake engineering and ground vibrations, by using formulas and hand calculators. The usefu
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GEOTECHNICAL, GEOLOGICAL AND EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING Volume 20 Series Editor Atilla Ansal, Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute, Boˇgaziçi 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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Practical Soil Dynamics Case Studies in Earthquake and Geotechnical Engineering
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MILUTIN SRBULOV United Kingdom
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Dr. Milutin Srbulov United Kingdom [email protected]
ISSN 1573-6059 ISBN 978-94-007-1311-6 e-ISBN 978-94-007-1312-3 DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-1312-3 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2011928823 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Every effort has been made to contact the copyright holders of the figures and maps which have been reproduced from other sources. Anyone who has not been properly credited is requested to contact the publishers, so that due acknowledgement may be made in subsequent editions. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Preface
Karl Terzaghi formally defined soil mechanics as a separate discipline by publishing his first book in 1925. Although soil mechanics involves soil statics and dynamics, only soil statics has become well established while soil dynamics remained in a rudimentary stage until recent developments in the field of earthquake engineering. Geotechnical earthquake engineering is formally defined as a new discipline by the first international conference on geotechnical earthquake engineering held in Tokyo in 1995. An essential part of geotechnical earthquake engineering is soil dynamics. Engineering codes and standards have followed to some extent developments in research in ground vibrations and earthquake engineering. Recent EN 1998-5 (2004) provides norms and information on a limited range of subjects only such as topographic amplification factors, liquefaction of levelled ground but not slopes, loading on retaining walls but not reinforced soil and seismic bearing capacity of shallow foundations but not piled foundations and not on soil-structure interaction. Such limitations are understandable as codes and standards are based on best practice and when a consensus on best practice is absent then codes remain brief. However, engineering practice require acceptable solutions for many subjects not covered by the existing codes. ISO 23469 (2005) use similar approach to E
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