Soil Dynamics with Applications in Vibration and Earthquake Protection

Dr. Christos Vrettos is Professor of Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern in Germany. He holds a Dipl.-Ing. and a Dr.-lng degree from the University of Karlsruhe and a Habilitation from the Technical University of Berlin. He spent several years in construction industry and geotechnical consulting being involved in notable projects. His expertise covers soil dynamics, railroad track dynamics, geotechnical earthquake engineering, numerical methods in geomechanics, deep foundations, unsaturated soils, and deep excavations. He is member of various international and national committees, and author of numerous publications.

Section I Soil Dynamics Fundamentals
1 Introduction
2 Vibrations of simple systems
3 Wave propagation in soils
4 Soil behaviour under cyclic loading
5 Measurement of dynamic soil properties
6 Dynamically loaded foundations

Section II Vibration Protection
7 General and definitions
8 Assessment of vibration actions
9 Measurement of vibrations
10 Forecast of vibrations
11 Reduction of vibrations

Section III Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering
12 Characterisation of earthquakes
13 Prediction of earthquake ground motion
14 Methods for seismic site response analyses
15 Liquefaction and remedial measures
16 Response of geotechnical structures
17 Response of underground structures