Overview
- Performance Design instead of prescriptive design
- Design of infrastructures to withstand high values of acceleration
- Performance of shallow foundations against liquefaction
- Seismic performance of river levees and dams and waste contaminant landfill
- Dynamic soil-structure interaction and underground structures
Part of the book series: Geotechnical, Geological and Earthquake Engineering (GGEE, volume 28)
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About this book
Pseudo-static analysis is still the most-used method to assess the stability of geotechnical systems that are exposed to earthquake forces. However, this method does not provide any information about the deformations and permanent displacements induced by seismic activity. Moreover, it is questionable to use this approach when geotechnical systems are affected by frequent and rare seismic events. Incidentally, the peak ground acceleration has increased from 0.2-0.3 g in the seventies to the current value of 0.6-0.8 g. Therefore, a shift from the pseudo-static approach to performance-based analysis is needed.
Over the past five years considerable progress has been made in Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering Design (EGED). The most recent advances are presented in this book in 6 parts.
The evaluation of the site amplification is covered in Part I of the book. In Part II the evaluation of the soil foundation stability against natural slope failure and liquefaction is treated. In the following 3 Parts of the book the EGED for different geotechnical systems is presented as follows: the design of levees and dams including natural slopes in Part III; the design of foundations and soil structure interaction analysis in Part IV; underground structures in Part V. Finally in Part VI, new topics like the design of reinforced earth retaining walls and landfills are covered.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering Design
Editors: Michele Maugeri, Claudio Soccodato
Series Title: Geotechnical, Geological and Earthquake Engineering
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03182-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-03181-1Published: 27 March 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-37507-6Published: 03 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-03182-8Published: 03 February 2014
Series ISSN: 1573-6059
Series E-ISSN: 1872-4671
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 388
Number of Illustrations: 94 b/w illustrations, 212 illustrations in colour
Topics: Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences, Civil Engineering, Natural Hazards, Geoengineering, Foundations, Hydraulics
Industry Sectors: Materials & Steel, Oil, Gas & Geosciences