Earthquake Engineering

Abstract

This chapter presents the concepts and procedures used by geotechnical earthquake engineers to design safe structures in a seismic environment. Geotechnical engineers tackle a wide range of problems; establishing design ground motions, the seismic design of foundations, analysis of soil-structure interaction, estimating seismic pressures against retaining and basement walls, evaluation of liquefaction potential, seismic response analysis of earth structures, post-liquefaction behavior of soil structures, evaluating the design of remediation measures and seismic risk analysis for critical facilities such as embankment dams with seismic liquefaction hazard potential.