The course covers topics of fundamentals of soil dynamics and geotechnical earthquake engineering with some practical applications. The topics include: seismological background; seismic hazard and mapping; ground motion characteristics; response spectra; liquefaction; seismic pressures; soil-structure interaction; codes; geo-retrofit and mitigation. In addition, lessons learned by recent earthquakes that the Instructor has been involved with.
- Teacher: Nikolaou Sissy