GEOTECHNICAL EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING (CIEN E4242)

Textbook
Soil Behavior for Earthquake Geotechnics
, Ishihara, K., Oxford University Press, 360 pp., 1996.
others
Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering, Kramer, S.L., Prentice Hall, Inc., 653 pp., 1995.
Principles of Soil Dynamics, Das, B.M., PWS Publishing Company, 592 pp., 1993.
Vibrations of Soils and Foundations, Richart, Jr., F.E., Hall, Jr., J.R., and Woods, R.D., Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1970.

The course is also offered through CVN. contact CVN for details

Inquiries should be sent to: Ling@civil.columbia.edu

Tentative Schedule
 
for CVN students, please refer to the tapped lectures
(Note: handouts are available only to students enrolled in this course. Please don't e-mail me asking for the handouts if you are not registered students)
Class #
Date
Contents
(Password required)

1
9/3
Course Syllabus
Introduction (powerpoint file)


2
9/10
Vibration
Free and Forced Vibrations

3
9/17
Free and Forced Vibrations with Damping
Analog Solution, Circular Foundation: Vertical, Sliding, Rocking and Torsional Vibrations
Assignment 1
4
9/24
Shallow Foundation: Bearing Capacity Considering Earthquake Loading
Terzaghi's Equation, Meyerhoff's Equation, Bearing Capacity with Eccentricity
One-Dimensional Wave Propagation
Longitunal Wave in a Bar (Infinite and Short Bars)

5
10/1
Torsional Waves in a Bar
Resonant Column Device
Description of Device
Determination of Gmax
Determination of D
Empirical Equations for Determining Gmax
Gmax for Cohesionless and Cohesive Soils
Assignment 2
6
10/8
2D Wave Propagation
Dynamic Equation of Motion. Plane Waves: Navier's Equation, Compressional Wave, Shear Wave, Relationship between vp and vs. Surface Waves: Rayleigh Wave, Love Wave

7
10/15
....

8
10/22
Cyclic Behavior of Soils, Lab and In-Situ Measurements
Cyclic behavior: Strain Level Effects, G/Go~gamma, D~gamma Relationships for Sand and Clay
Laboratory Tests: Bender Tests, Small Strain Measurements, Improved Cyclic Triaxial Tests
In-situ Measurements: Up-hole Test, Down-hole Test, Cross-hole Tests, etc
mid-term
9
10/29
Seismic Response Analysis
Multi-layer Wave Propagation
Shake Program (link)
- about the Final Project
About final project
10
11/5
Soil Models for Cyclic Loading
Linear Viscoelastic Models, Complex Modulus Model, Masing Rule
Hardin-Drnevich (Hyperbolic Model), ...

11
11/12
Bilinear Model, Hardin-Drnevich (Hyperbolic Model), Ramberg-Osgood Model, Calibration of Cyclic Models
Soil Liquefaction
- Mechanism of Liquefaction
- Cyclic Simple Shear and Cyclic Triaxial Tests
Assignment 3
12
11/19
- Liquefaction and Cyclic Mobility, Phase Transformation
- Excess Pore Water Pressure and Stress Path Method
- Liquefaction Potential based on Simplified Method and In-situ Tests

- Remediation Methods


11/26
thanksgiving

13
12/3
Earth Retaining Structures
Dynamic Earth Pressure Theory (Mononobe-Okabe Analysis)
Displacement-Limit Design of Retaining Walls

Slopes
Seismic Stability Analysis
- Planar Mechanism: Extended Culmann-Francais Analysis
- Circular Mechanism: Extended Taylor Charts
Permanent Displacement Analysis
- Seismic Factor of Safety on Planar Mechanism
- Critical Yield Acceleration
- Permanent Displacement and Rotation

left

Response and Liquefaction of Ocean Bed Subject to Wave Loading
- Cyclic Stresses due to Wave Loading
- Liquefaction Strength considering Principal Stress Rotation
- Liquefaction AnalysisComposite Breakwater/Caisson under Water Wave Impact
- Storm/Tsunami
- Failures due to Wave Impact
- Goda Wave Pressure Formulas
- Sliding Stability
- Permanent Sliding
Summary

12/17

Final Presentation


Useful links (software)
Deepsoil (by Prof. Hashash, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
EERA (by Prof. Bardet, University of Southern California)
EduShake: Educational version of ProShake (recommended)
Shake91:
National Information Service for Earthquake Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
GeoPrograms