Engineering seismology : with applications to geotechnical engineering

The scope of engineering seismology includes geotechnical site investigations for buildings and engineering infrastructures, such as dams, levees, bridges, and tunnels, landslide and active-fault investigations, seismic microzonation, and geophysical investigations of historic buildings. These proje...

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Main Author Yilmaz, Özdoğan (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Tulsa, Oklahoma : Society of Exploration Geophysicists, 2015.
SeriesInvestigations in geophysics ; no. 17.
Subjects
Earthquake engineering.
Engineering geology.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781580603300
1580603300
1560803290
9781560803294
9781523116096
1523116099
9780931830464
Physical Description1 online resource (x, 954 pages) : illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Seismic waves
  • 2. Seismic modeling of the soil column
  • 3. Site characterization
  • 4. Landslide investigations
  • 5. Active fault investigations
  • 6. Seismic microzonation
  • 7. Geophysical investigations of historic buildings
  • 8. Exploration of earth resources
  • Appendix A. Mathematical foundation of elastic wave propagation
  • Appendix B. Body waves
  • Appendix C. Surface waves
  • Appendix D. The discrete radon transform
  • Appendix E. The generalized linear inversion
  • References
  • Index.

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