Developments in Earthquake Geotechnics

This book provides a timely review and summary of the recent advances in state-of-the-art earthquake geotechnics. The earthquake disasters in Japan and New Zealand in 2011 prompted the urgent need for the state-of-the-art earthquake geotechnics to be put into practice for disaster mitigation. By reviewing the developments in earthquake geotechnics over more than half a century, this unique book enables readers to obtain solid grasp of this discipline.

It is based on contributions from 18 leading international experts, who met in Kyoto in June 2016 to discuss a range of issues related to the developments of earthquake geotechnics. It comprehensively discusses various areas of earthquake geotechnics, including performance-based seismic design; the evolution of geotechnical seismic response analysis from 1964-2015; countermeasures against liquefaction; solutions for nuclear power plant disasters; the tsunami-caused inundation of the Tokyo metropolitan area; and a series of state-of-the-art effective stress analyses of case histories from the 2011 East Japan Earthquake.

The book is of interest to advanced level researchers and practicing engineers in the field of earthquake geotechnics.

Chapter 1. Performance-based seismic design of geotechnical structures. - Chapter 2. The evolution of geotechnical seismic response analysis from 1964-2015. - Chapter 3. Past, Present, and Future Developments in Liquefaction Hazard Analysis. - Chapter 4. Countermeasures against liquefaction. - Chapter 5. Towards solution for nuclear disaster at Fukushima No. 1 Power Plant. - Chapter 6. Liquefaction induced dragload and downdrag based on full-scale blast liquefaction testing. Chapter 7. Innovation in sensing technologies for geotechnical engineering and opportunities for earthquake geotechnics. - Chapter 8. Recent efforts to mitigate the impacts of earthquake hazard in Indonesia. - Chapter 9. Possible 4m-deep flooding in densely populated low-land area of Tokyo triggered by a mega-earthquake expected in the near future. - Chapter 10. Journey from soil micro-element modelling to foundation macro-element. - Chapter 11. Effective Stress Analysis of Liquefaction during 2011 East Japan Earthquake. - Chapter 12. Effective Stress Analysis of Liquefaction during 2011 East Japan Earthquake: Effects of Void Redistribution (Kazuaki Uemura). -Chapter 13. Effective Stress Analysis of River Dikes during 2011 East Japan Earthquake. - Chapter 14. Effective Stress Analysis of Quay Walls during 2011 East Japan Earthquake. - Chapter 15. - Modelling of Axial Behavior of Piles. - Chapter 16. Modelling of cohesive soils: soil element behavior. - Chapter 17. Modelling of cohesive soils: consolidation and seismic response. - Chapter 18. Large deformation (finite strain) analysis: theory. - Chapter 19. Large deformation (finite strain) analysis: application.