Download or read book Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering written by Ikuo Towhata and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-12-19 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating new book examines the issues of earthquake geotechnical engineering in a comprehensive way. It summarizes the present knowledge on earthquake hazards and their causative mechanisms as well as a number of other relevant topics. Information obtained from earthquake damage investigation (such as ground motion, landslides, earth pressure, fault action, or liquefaction) as well as data from laboratory tests and field investigation is supplied, together with exercises/questions.