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Earthquake Engineering

Earthquake engineering is defined as the scientific branch devoted to the protection of society from earthquake hazards. More specifically earthquake engineering is defined as the behavior study of structures and geostructures during and after an earthquake. Geotechpedia provides a plethora of papers concerning earthquake engineering.

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<p>The present paper deals with the use of numerical methods so as to assess the efficiency of an improvement method to reduce the liquefaction potential in a sandy soil profile subjected to shaking. The objective is to reveal the beneficial or unfavorable ...
Reference: 8 ème Colloque National AFPS 2011 – Ecole des Ponts ParisTech
 
<p>The primary intent of this guide is to explain the sources of nonstructural earthquake damag-e in simple tenns. and to provide information on effective methods of reducing the potential risks. The recommendations contained in this guide are intended to ...
Reference: Fourth Edition, FEMA E-74 / January 2011
A field investigation was performed to retest liquefaction and nonliquefaction sitesfrom the 1976 Tangshan earthquake in China.These sites were carefully investigated in 1978 and 1979 by using standard penetration test (SPT) and cone penetration test (CPT) ...
Reference: Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering (2011)
This research develops a first‐order estimate of the large strain dynamic response of peaty organic soils, with the goal of improving system reliability estimates of the Bay Delta levee network.
Reference: Geo-Frontiers 2011 Conference Proceedings: Dallas, TX (2011)
This research involves shake table testing of 1g scale models that mimic the coupled seismic response of a structure on a shallow mat foundation and the foundation soil (termed soil-foundation-structure-interaction or SFSI).
Reference: Geo-Frontiers 2011 Conference Proceedings: Dallas, TX (2011).
A total of 15 persons has been part of this 5 days field investigation in order to support the Spanish IGNintervention on the field after the Lorca earthquake. X. Goula, Leader of the Seismic Group of theInstitut of Geology of Catalunya was the coordinator ...
Reference: M5.1 Lorca Earthquake field investigation
<p>Near-fault ground motions often possess distinct characteristics, which can have strong influence on structural response. These include the rupture directivity effect in the fault-normal direction and the fling step in the fault-parallel direction. A site ...
Reference: Report to Sponsor California Department of Transportation
<p>In this study, oil containing sand was subjected to loading in a cyclic triaxial test system. The sand was poorly graded and fine grained, typical of that found in southern Taiwan. Tests were conducted on the pure sand, sand with an oil content of 10% by ...
Reference: ISGSR 2011 - Vogt, Schuppener, Straub & Bräu (eds) - © 2011 Bundesanstalt für Wasserbau
From February 22 to March 19, 2011, a team organized by the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) and the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research (PEER) Center investigated the effects of the Christchurch earthquake.
Reference: EERI Special Earthquake Report — May 2011
<p>Soil liquefaction is conventionally evaluated through an empirical framework based on accumulated experience from case histories - the "NCEER Method". However, the empirical framework contains inconsistent physics and characterizations that are unrelated ...
Reference: 5th International Conference on Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering, January 2011, 10-13, Santiago, Chile