Springer Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering





GEOTECHNICAL, GEOLOGICAL AND EARTHQUAKE

ENGINEERING

Vol u me 9

Series Editor

Atilla Ansal, Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute,Bo



gazic¸i University, Istanbul, Turkey

Editorial Advisory Board

Julian Bommer, Imperial College London, U.K.

Jonathan D. Bray, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A.

Kyriazis Pitilakis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Susumu Yasuda, Tokyo Denki University, Japan


Geotechnical Earthquake

Engineering

Simplified Analyses with Case Studies

and Examples

by

MILUTIN SRBULOV

United Kingdom

with Foreword of

E.T.R. Dean


Preface

This monograph contains descriptions of numerous methods aimed at ease and

speed of use for major problems in geotechnical earthquake engineering. Comments

on assumptions, limitations, and factors affecting the results are given. Case studies

and examples are included to illustrate the accuracy and usefulness of simplified

methods. A list of references is provided for further considerations, if desired. Microsoft

Excel workbooks referred to in Appendices and provided on an accompanying

CD are for the case studies and examples considered in the monograph. Some

of the reasons for using this monograph are mentioned below.

Many codes and standards contain recommendations on best practice but compliance

with them does not necessarily confer immunity from relevant statutory and legal

requirements (as stated in British Standards). Some seismic codes and standards

were revised after major events such as the 1995 Hyogo-ken Nambu and the 1994

Northridge earthquakes. Codes contain clauses without references to the original

sources for more detailed considerations when cases that require such consideration

appear in practice. Codes do not contain explanations of the statements expressed

in them. Codes are brief regarding ground properties and ground response. For

example, Eurocode 8 – Part 5 requires assessment of the effects of soil-structure

interaction in certain circumstances but does not specify the details of the analyses.

Therefore, the use of codes and standards alone may not be sufficient in engineering

practice.

In engineering practice, there is often rather little interaction between structural

and foundation disciplines. Structural engineers often consider ground in a simplified

way using equivalent springs. Geotechnical engineers consider often only

loading from structures on foundations. Dynamic soil-structure interaction is very

complex and analyzed mainly by specialist in geotechnical earthquake engineering.

This monograph should help geotechnical and structural engineers to communicate

effectively to better understand solutions of many problems in geotechnical earthquake

engineering.


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