Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering

• Main Author: Towhata, Ikuo (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2008.
• Series: Springer Series in Geomechanics and Geoengineering,
• Subjects: Engineering.; Geology.; Geotechnical engineering.; Continuum mechanics.; Structural mechanics.; Civil engineering.; Engineering geology.; Engineering > Geology.; Foundations.; Hydraulics.; Geoengineering, Foundations, Hydraulics.; Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences.; Continuum Mechanics and Mechanics of Materials.; Structural Mechanics.; Civil Engineering.

This book presents all issues of earthquake geotechnical engineering in a comprehensive way. It summarizes the present knowledge on earthquake hazards and their causative mechanisms, experimental studies on nonlinear complex soil behaviour, an analysis to predict ground behaviour during earthquakes,...