Preface
Chapter
1. Elastic wave propagation in soil
1.1. Introduction
1.2. One-dimensional wave propagation and wave energy
1.3. Three-dimensional body waves
1.4. Surface waves
1.5. Viscoelastic model and soil damping for wave propagation
1.6. Wave attenuation by internal damping
1.7. Wave attenuation including geometric damping
1.8. Summary
Chapter
2. Soil properties during earthquakes
2.1. Characterization of dynamic soil properties
2.2. How to measure soil properties
2.3. Typical small strain properties
2.4. Strain-dependent equivalent linear properties
2.5. Summary
Chapter
3. Soil modeling for dynamic analysis and scaled model test
3.1. Modeling of soil properties
3.2. Dynamic soil analyses
3.3. Scaled model tests and soil model
3.4. Summary
Chapter
4. Seismic site amplification and wave energy
4.1. Soil condition and site amplification
4.2. Amplification in two-layer system
4.3. Site amplification by earthquake observation
4.4. Site amplification derived from vertical array records
4.5. SSI and radiation damping in one-dimensional wave propagation
4.6. Energy flow in wave propagation
4.7. Summary
Chapter
5. Liquefaction
5.1. Typical Liquefaction Behavior
5.2. General conditions for liquefaction triggering
5.3. Geotechnical conditions for liquefaction triggering
5.4. Effect of gravels and fines
5.5. Liquefaction potential evaluation by in situ tests
5.6. Energy-based liquefaction potential evaluation
5.7. Effect of incomplete saturation
5.8. Effect of initial shear stress
5.9. Cyclic softening of clayey soils
5.10. Liquefaction-induced failure and associated mechanism
5.11. Base-isolation during liquefaction
5.12. Summary
Chapter
6. Earthquake-induced slope failures
6.1. Slip-surface analysis by seismic coefficient
6.2. Newmark method
6.3. Self-weight deformation analysis using degraded moduli
6.4. Energy-based slope failure evaluation
6.5. Case histories and back-calculations by energy-based method
6.6. Summary