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Free Books and Papers
(CUREE Publication No. EDA-05)
Educational Resources
This web site is aimed at teaching from basics, the theory behind earthquakes,
vibrations and how buildings are designed to withstand them.
 | North America - Japan Workshop on the Geotechnical Aspects of the Kobe, Lome | |
| Prieta and Northridge Earthquakes, Report to National Science Foundation, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, and the Japanese Geotechnical Society, Osaka, Japan, 22-24 January 1996. Available by GEES. |
| H. Bolton Seed and Robert V. Whitman (1970), Design of Earth Retaining | |
| Structures for Dynamic Loads. Available by the NISEE library. Keep in mind that Professor Whitman wrote a correction to this paper in 1990. |
| Bray, J. D (2001). "Developing Mitigation Measures for the Hazards Associated | |
| with Earthquake Surface Fault Rupture," in A Workshop on Seismic Fault-Induced Failures Possible Remedies for Damage to Urban Facilities, Research Project 2000 Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (No. 12355020), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Workshop Leader, Kazuo Konagai, University of Tokyo, Japan, pp. 55-79, January 11-12, 2001. Available by the Geoengineer Website. |
| NISEE-2000-01, Introduction to Earthquake Engineering, by V. V. Bertero, | |
| available by the NISEE website. |
| "Seismic compression of as-compacted fill soils with variable level of fines content | |
| and fines plasticity", J. P. Stewart, D. H. Whang, M. Moyneur and P. Duku |
| Centrifuge testing reports from the UC Davis Center of Geotechnical Modelling |
Educational Resources
| The elastic rebound theory. What it is, and a really interesting animation. Also, | |
| from the USGS site a photo of the deformation of a fence during the 1906, San Andreas Earthquake. |
| Earthquake effects & experiences, FAQ, published by the USGS. All the basics, | |
| and a good reference. |
| How earthquakes work. An article on the causes and the effects of the | |
| earthquakes. Very good for those who want to learn the basics |
| "Dynamics, Vibration & Earthquakes Teaching Pages" , |
vibrations and how buildings are designed to withstand them.
| "Modeling a tsunami generated by the Tokachi-Oki earthquake of Mw 8.3 | |
| [03/09/26]", by the Disaster Control Research Center (DCRC), Tohoku Univ. and Shunichi Koshimura (Disaster Reduction and Human Renovation Inst.) |
| "Soil Dynamics", Arnold Verrnijt (Delft University of Technology, 1994, 2005) | |
| The Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering Portal is hosted by the Geoengineer Website. Site maintained by Adda Athanasopoulos-Zekkos |
| GEOTECHNICAL EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING PORTAL |
Various Earthquake Engineering Material
Photos from the EERC gallery:
http://nisee.berkeley.edu/elibrary/index.html
http://nisee.berkeley.edu/elibrary/index.html