This course has been designed to cover the following topics:

• Understand geotechnical earthquake hazard and mitigation, damage to structures, seismicity, and wave propagation.

• Develop an appropriate ground motion for use in design, including local site effects.

• Use sound concepts to determine the response of a soil deposit during/after earthquakes.

• Develop the skills required to provide engineering solutions to geotechnical earthquake problems.

• Become familiar with research topics in geotechnical earthquake engineering.

The course provides in-depth materials in the following areas:

• Seismic motion sources

• Ground motion time histories

• Response spectra

• Wave propagation through soil and rock

• Dynamic properties of soils & rocks

• Ground response to strong shaking

• Analysis of soil liquefaction

• Seismic slope stability

• Soil improvement to mitigate eartquakes