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: Book
Language:English
Published: Tulsa : Society of Exploration Geophysicists, 2015.
Series:Investigations in geophysics ; no. 17.
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Summary: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 projects require multidisciplinary participation by the geologist, geophysicist, and geotechnical and earthquake engineers. A key objective of this book (SEG Investigations in Geophysics Series No. 17) by Öz Yilmaz is to encourage the specialists from these disciplines to apply the seismic method to solve the many challenging engineering problems they face. The broader scope of engineering seismology also includes exploration of earth resources, including groundwater exploration, coal and mineral exploration, and geothermal exploration. While focusing on the application of the seismic method to geotechnical site investigations, this book includes many case studies in all of the applications of engineering seismology.
Item Description:"SEG Press books."
Physical Description:x, 954 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages [943]-949) and index.
ISBN:9781560803294
1560803290