Geotechnics and Earthquake Geotechnics Towards Global Sustainability

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Iai, Susumu (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2011.
• Series: Geotechnical, Geological, and Earthquake Engineering, 15
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Geotechnical engineering.; Civil engineering.; Sustainable development.; Earth Sciences.; Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences.; Sustainable Development.; Civil Engineering.

This book is part of a bold, new initiative towards global sustainability and development that draws on the disciplines of geotechnical engineering and earthquake geotechnics.  It contains contributions from fifteen of the world's leading experts who met in Kyoto in early 2010 to discuss a rang...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Prologue: Designing for Sustainability
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Seismic Hazards
• 3 Lifelines in Megacities
• 4 Infrastructure
• 5 Geotechnics and Society
• 6 World Heritage in Asia
• 7 Coastal Protection
• 8 Combined Hazards
• 9 Urban Microzonation
• 10 Slope Failure
• 11 Geo-Hazards
• 12 Exploring Non-gravity Geotechnics
• 13 Soil Mechanics
• Index.