Basic Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering – Kamalesh Kumar – 1st Edition

Preface
1. INTRODUCTION TO GEOTECHNICAL EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Earthquake Records
1.3 Earthquake Records of India
2. EARTHQUAKES
2.1 Plate Tectonics, The Cause of Earthquakes
2.2 Seismic Waves
2.3 Faults
2.4 Earthquake Magnitude and Intensity
2.5 Seismograph
3. SEISMIC HAZARDS IN INDIA
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Earthquake Hazards in India
3.3 Earthquake Hazards in the North Eastern Region
3.4 Frequency of Earthquake
3.5 Earthquake Prediction
3.6 Earthquake Hazard zonation, Risk Evaluation and Mitigation
3.7 Earthquake Resistant Structures
3.8 Awareness Campaign
4. DYNAMIC SOIL PROPERTIES
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Soil Properties for Dynamic Loading
4.3 Types of Soils
4.4 Measuring Dynamic Soil Properties
5. SITE SEISMICITY, SEISMIC SOIL RESPONSE AND DESIGN EARTHQUAKE
5.1 Site Seismicity
5.2 Seismic Soil Response
5.3 Design Earthquake
6. LIQUEFACTION
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Factors Governing Liquefaction in the Field
6.3 Liquefaction Analysis
6.4 Antiliquefaction Measures
7. EARTHQUAKE RESISTANT DESIGN FOR SHALLOW FOUNDATION
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Bearing Capacity Analysis for Liquefied Soil
7.4 Bearing Capacity Analysis for Cohesive Soil Weakened by Earthquake
8. EARTHQUAKE RESISTANT DESIGN OF DEEP FOUNDATION
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Design Criteria
9. SLOPE STABILITY ANALYSES FOR EARTHQUAKES
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Inertia Slope Stability – Pseudostatic Method
9.3 Intertia Slope Stability – Network Method
9.4 Weakening Slope Stability – Flow Slides
10. RETAINING WALL ANALYSES FOR EARTHQUES
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Pseudostatic Method
10.3 Retaining Wall Analysis for Liquefied Soil
10.4 Retaining Wall Analysis for Weakened Soil
10.5 Restrained Retaining Walls
10.6 Temporary Retaining Walls
11. EARTHQUAKE RESISTANT DESIGN OF BUILDINGS
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Earthquake Resisting Performance Expectation
11.3 Key Material Parameters for Effective Earthquake Resistant Design
11.4 Earthquake Design Level Ground Motion
11.5 Derivation of Ductile Design Response Spectra
11.6 Analysis and Earthquake Resistant Design Principles
11.7 Earthquake Resistant Structural Systems
11.8 The Importance and Implications of Structural Regularity
11.9 Methods of Analysis
References
Index