CIVL5750    Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics [3-0-3:3]

 

Topics:

Earthquakes and strong ground motions

Seismic hazard analysis

Soil dynamics and site response analysis

Soil liquefaction and volumetric deformation

Seismic slope stability analysis

Seismic design of retaining structures

Dynamic soil-structure interaction

 

Reference Materials:

 

Course Notes: to be distributed in class

 

Text Books: Kramer, S. L. (1996).  Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering, Prentice Hall.

 

Matlab Concise Notes. You may use Matlab to do the homework. [pdf]

Seismic Design Codes

* 建筑抗震设计规范, 中华人民共和国国家标准 GB50011-2010

* ASCE07: Minimum Design Loads for Buildings and Other Structures, ASCE 7-10 (“2010 ASCE-7 Standard”).

* NEHRP: National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program

Overviews

* Bray J.D. Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering, in The Civil Engineering Handbook, Second Edition, Edited by W. F. Chen and J. Y. Richard Liew, CRC Press 2003

 

* Finn W.D.L. State-of-the-art of geotechnical earthquake engineering practice, Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering 20 (2000) 1-15

Seismic Hazard Analysis 

* Trifunac M.D., 75th anniversary of strong motion observation—A historical review, Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering 29 (2009) 591– 606

 

* Wells D.L. and Coppersmith K.J. New Empirical Relationships among Magnitude, Rupture Length, Rupture Width, Rupture Area, and Surface Displacement, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, Vol. 84, No. 4, pp. 974-1002, August 1994

* Youngs R.R. and Coppersmith K.J. Implications of fault slip rates and earthquake recurrence models to probabilistic seismic hazard estimates, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, Vol. 75, No. 4, pp. 939-964, August 1985

 

* Cornell, C. A. Engineering Seismic Risk Analysis, Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. Vol. 58, No. 5, pp. 1583-1606. October, 1968

 

* Abrahamson N.A. State of the Practice of Seismic Hazard Evaluation.

Ground Motion Attenuation Models

Next Generation Attenuation (NGA) Models

Response Spectrum

* Trifunac M.D., Brief history of computation of earthquake response spectra, Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering 26 (2006) 501–508

* Nigam N.C., Jannings P.C. Calculation of Response Spectra from Strong-motion Earthquake Records,  Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. Vol. 59, No. 2, pp. 909-922. April, 1969

Site Response Analysis

* DeepSoil V3.7, http://www.illinois.edu/~deepsoil  Copyright (c) UIUC

[manual] Hashash, Y.M.A, Groholski, D.R., Phillips, C. A., Park, D. (2009) “DEEPSOIL V3.7beta, User Manual and Tutorial.” 88 p.

* Seed R.B., Chang S.W., Dickenson S.E., Bray J.D. Site-dependent Seismic Response Including Recent Strong Motion Data, in Seismic Behaviour of Ground and Geotechnical Structures, Seco e Pinto, P. S., ed., Proc. of Spec. Session on Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering, XIV International Conf. On Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering, Hamburg, Germany, A.A. Balkema, pp. 125-134, Sept. 6-12, 1997

Soil Liquefaction

* Raymond B. Seed, K. Onder Cetin, Robb E.S. Moss, Annie M. Kammerer, Jiaer Wu, Juan M. Pestana, Michael F. Riemer, Rodolfo B. Sancio, Jonathan D. Bray, Robert E. Kayen, and Allison Faris. "Recent Advances in Soil Liquefaction Engineering: A Unified and Consistent Framework", 26th Annual ASCE Los Angeles Geotechnical Spring Seminar, Keynote Presentation, H.M.S. Queen Mary, Long Beach, California, April 30, 2003.

 

* Youd et al. Liquefaction Resistance of Soils: Summary Report from the  1996 NCEER and 1998 NCEER/NSF Workshops on Evaluation of Liquefaction Resistance of Soils, Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, Vol. 127, No. 10, October, 2001, p. 817-833

 

* K.O. Cetin, R. B. Seed et. al. Standard Penetration Test-Based Probabilistic and Deterministic Assessment of Seismic Soil Liquefaction Potential, Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, Vol. 130, No. 12, December 1, 2004

 

* Idriss I.M. and Boulanger R.W. Soil Liquefaction During Earthquakes, Earthquake Engineering Research Institute Monograph MNO-12, 2007 [link to library]

 

* Byrne, P.M., Naesgaard, E., and Seid-Karbasi, M., 2006. “Analysis and design of earth structures to resist seismic soil liquefaction,” 59th Canadian Geotechnical Conference, Canadian Geotechnical Society, Vancouver, B.C., October.

Seismic Slope Analysis

* Jonathan D. Bray, in K.D. Pitilakis (ed.), Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering, Chapter 14 Simplified Seismic Slope Displacement Procedures, 327–353, 2007 Springer

Computational Soil Dynamics

* UCSD website containing many useful references http://cyclic.ucsd.edu/references.html

* Useful computational tools from Dr. Lu Jinchi website http://cyclic.ucsd.edu/Lu/software.html

 

 

Updated March 26, 2013