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Earthquake Engineering for Rock, Slopes, and Excavations

A Portable Practice Handbook on Seismic Velocity, Attenuation, and Geotechnical Civil ApplicationsBy Yusuke Aritomi

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Between a design spectrum and a decision about a slope lie a dozen calculations, and most of them are made in the field. This handbook keeps them in your bag. You will characterise ground motion, run deterministic and probabilistic hazard analyses, and build a design spectrum. You will measure shear wave velocity by borehole and surface wave methods, interpret rock mass quality, velocity, attenuation and anisotropy in fractured ground, and select modulus reduction and damping curves for site response analysis. Liquefaction chapters take you from cyclic stress ratio to settlement, lateral spreading and residual strength. Slope chapters cover pseudo-static and Newmark displacement analysis, stereonet kinematics and rock bolt and shotcrete support, followed by seismic earth pressures, braced and tied-back excavations, ground improvement and instrumentation. Written for practising geotechnical engineers, engineering geologists and graduate students. What you will learn: • Characterise earthquake sources and magnitude, and interpret strong ground motion records for engineering use. • Perform deterministic and probabilistic seismic hazard analyses and construct a design spectrum. • Plan site investigations and measure shear wave velocity using borehole and surface wave methods. • Assess rock mass quality, velocity, attenuation and anisotropy in fractured ground. • Select modulus reduction and damping curves, and run one-dimensional site response analysis. • Evaluate liquefaction triggering, post-liquefaction settlement, lateral spreading and residual strength. • Apply pseudo-static and Newmark displacement methods to seismic slope stability. • Design rock slope support using stereonet kinematics, rock bolts and shotcrete. • Estimate seismic earth pressures, and design braced and tied-back excavations, ground improvement and monitoring systems. This portable handbook is written for practising geotechnical engineers, engineering geologists, and graduate students who need seismic velocity, attenuation, and geotechnical civil applications at their fingertips, whether in the office or on site.

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GenreTechnology, Science and Nature

Length12 hrs 23 mins

Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices

FormateBook with Audio

Publish dateSep 27, 2026

LanguageEnglish

1Earthquake Engineering for Rock, Slopes, and Excavations

2Foreword

3Preface

4About This Book

5Important Safety Notice

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6Chapter 1: Earthquake Sources and Magnitude

71.1 Plate Boundaries, Fault Types and Rupture Geometry

81.2 Elastic Rebound, Seismic Moment and Moment Magnitude

91.3 Magnitude Scales and Intensity

101.4 Recurrence, Fault Slip Rates and Source-to-Site Geometry

11Chapter 2: Strong Ground Motion

122.1 Peak Ground Motion Parameters and Duration

132.2 Response Spectra and Fourier Spectra

142.3 Ground Motion Prediction Equations and Record Selection

15Chapter 3: Seismic Hazard Analysis

163.1 Deterministic Seismic Hazard Analysis

173.2 Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis

183.3 Return Period, Exceedance Probability and Deaggregation

193.4 Uniform Hazard and Design Spectra

20Chapter 4: Site Investigation and Shear Wave Velocity

214.1 Borings, Sampling and In-Situ Testing

224.2 Cone Penetration Testing and Correlations

234.3 Borehole Seismic Methods: Crosshole, Downhole and Suspension Logging

244.4 Surface Wave, Refraction and Average Velocity to 30 m

25Chapter 5: Rock Mass Quality, Velocity, Attenuation and Anisotropy

265.1 Rock Quality Designation, Joint Sets and Spacing

275.2 Rock Mass Classification Indices

285.3 Velocity, Porosity and Stress Relationships

295.4 Attenuation and Seismic Anisotropy in Fractured Rock

30Chapter 6: Dynamic Properties of Soil

316.1 Small-Strain Shear Modulus and Elastic Properties

326.2 Modulus Reduction and Damping Curves

336.3 Cyclic Triaxial, Simple Shear and Resonant Column Testing

34Chapter 7: One-Dimensional Site Response

357.1 Wave Propagation in Layered Profiles

367.2 Equivalent Linear and Nonlinear Analysis

377.3 Input Motion Selection and Surface Spectra

387.4 Site Factors, Impedance Contrast and Basin Effects

39Chapter 8: Liquefaction Triggering and Consequences

408.1 Susceptibility Screening and Cyclic Stress Ratio

418.2 Cyclic Resistance from Penetration Data and Factor of Safety

428.3 Post-Liquefaction Settlement and Lateral Spreading

438.4 Residual Strength and Post-Liquefaction Stability

44Chapter 9: Seismic Slope Stability

459.1 Pseudo-Static Analysis and Seismic Coefficient Selection

469.2 Yield Acceleration and Newmark Sliding-Block Displacement

479.3 Decoupled and Coupled Sliding Analyses

489.4 Tolerable Displacement and Design Judgement

49Chapter 10: Rock Slope Engineering

5010.1 Stereonet Kinematic Analysis

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