Waves and Vibrations in Soils: Earthquakes, Traffic, Shocks, Construction works

Description

The main scientific and engineering goal of this book is to deal simultaneously with soil dynamics/vibrations and wave propagation in soils (including seismic waves). These various fields are generally considered separately and the important links between them, both from scientific and practical points of view, are unfortunately not investigated. They are usually considered in separate disciplines such as earthquake geotechnical engineering, civil engineering, mechanics, geophysics, seismology, numerical modelling, etc. The objective of the book is to offer in a single publication an overview of soil dynamics and wave propagation in soils with emphasis on engineering applications. It starts from a wide variety of practical problems (e.g. traffic induced vibrations, dynamic compaction, vibration isolation), then deals with 1D and 2D/3D wave propagation in heterogeneous and attenuating media (with application to laboratory and in situ dynamic characterization of soils), gives an overview of various numerical methods (e.g. FEM, BEM) to simulate wave propagation (including numerical errors, radiation/absorbing conditions, etc) and finally investigates seismic wave propagation and amplification in complex geological structures (e.g. irregular topographies, alluvial deposits). 20180928191414648......Page 1 20181002182249080......Page 26 20181002182918426......Page 51 20181003094125287......Page 74 20181003094731633......Page 101 20181005184603236......Page 128 20181005185145414......Page 154 20181009182541886......Page 180 20181009183009049......Page 199 20181010170527553......Page 219 20181010170743094......Page 245