Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering

Soil Liquefaction and Seismic Safety of Dams and Monuments

Abbas Moustafa

• Publisher: IntechOpen
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN:
  9789535100256
• eBook ISBN:
  9789535161189
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Civil Engineering
• Index: Technology & Engineering

This book sheds lights on recent advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering with special emphasis on soil liquefaction, soil-structure interaction, seismic safety of dams and underground monuments, mitigation strategies against landslide and fire whirlwind resulting from earthquakes and vibration of a layered rotating plant and Bryan's effect. The book contains sixteen chapters covering several interesting research topics written by researchers and experts from several countries. The research reported in this book is useful to graduate students and researchers working in the fields of structural and earthquake engineering. The book will also be of considerable help to civil engineers working on construction and repair of engineering structures, such as buildings, roads, dams and monuments.

Table of contents

• Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering - Soil Liquefaction and Seismic Safety of Dams and Monuments
• Contents
• Preface
• Chapter 1 Lessons Learned from Recent Earthquakes – Geoscience and Geotechnical Perspectives
• Chapter 2 Lateral In-Situ Stress Measurements to Diagnose Liquefaction
• Chapter 3 Review on Liquefaction Hazard Assessment
• Chapter 4 Liquefaction Remediation
• Chapter 5 Simplified Analyses of Dynamic Pile Response Subjected to Soil Liquefaction and Lateral Spread Effects
• Chapter 6 Non-Linear Numerical Analysis of Earthquake-Induced Deformation of Earth-Fill Dams
• Chapter 7 Selection of the Appropriate Methodology for Earthquake Safety Assessment of Dam Structures
• Chapter 8 Earthquake Response Analysis and Evaluation for Earth-Rock Dams
• Chapter 9 Recent Landslide Damming Events and Their Hazard Mitigation Strategies
• Chapter 10 Rate-Dependent Nonlinear Seismic Response Analysis of Concrete Arch Dam
• Chapter 11 Seismic Potential Improvement of Road Embankment
• Chapter 12 Seismic Response Analysis and Protection of Underground Monumental Structures – The Catacombs of Kom EL-Shoqafa, Alexandria, Egypt
• Chapter 13 Seismic Protection of Monolithic Objects of Art Using a Constrained Oscillating Base
• Chapter 14 Application of a Highly Reduced One-Dimensional Spring-Dashpot System to Inelastic SSI Systems Subjected to Earthquake Ground Motions
• Chapter 15 Numerical Prediction of Fire Whirlwind Outbreak and Scale Effect of Whirlwind Behavior
• Chapter 16 The Vibration of a Layered Rotating Planet and Bryan’s Effect