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Geotechnical Earthquake Handbook: Soil Dynamics, Site Response, Liquefaction, and Seismic Foundation Design
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Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 420
Weight: 2.13
Height: 0.86 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
Geotechnical Earthquake Handbook is a practical, engineering-focused reference for understanding how soils, foundations, and earth structures behave under seismic loading. Written for practicing engineers, early-career professionals, and graduate students, the book connects the full seismic chain-from earthquake source and ground motion to site response, liquefaction, foundation performance, soil-structure interaction, and mitigation.
Rather than treating earthquake loading as a purely structural problem, this handbook focuses on the critical role of the ground itself. Readers learn how soil stiffness, layering, damping, groundwater conditions, and cyclic loading can modify shaking, amplify surface motion, generate excess pore-water pressure, and in severe cases lead to settlement, lateral spreading, loss of bearing capacity, or foundation instability.
The book develops the subject progressively, beginning with seismology, ground motion, dynamic soil properties, seismic hazard analysis, and one-dimensional ground response. It then moves into site characterization, liquefaction triggering and consequences, seismic slope stability, retaining structures, seismic foundation design, soil-structure interaction, ground improvement, and the seismic performance of earth structures such as embankments and dams.
A strong emphasis is placed on methods, calculations, and engineering judgment. Important procedures are developed from clearly stated assumptions, variables and units are defined, and fully worked numerical examples allow readers to follow the analysis step by step and reproduce the results independently.
Inside, readers will explore:
- Soil dynamics, cyclic loading, damping, and shear modulus behavior
- Seismic wave propagation, site effects, amplification, and ground response
- Site characterization using SPT, CPT, shear-wave velocity, and groundwater data
- Liquefaction mechanisms, triggering evaluation, settlement, lateral spreading, and foundation effects
- Seismic slope stability and Newmark deformation analysis
- Seismic earth pressures and retaining-structure behavior
- Shallow and deep foundation performance under earthquake loading
- Soil-structure interaction, foundation flexibility, damping, and period lengthening
- Ground improvement, densification, drainage, reinforcement, and liquefaction mitigation
- Seismic performance of embankments, dams, tailings structures, and other earthworks
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