Table Of ContentMichael Beer
Ioannis A. Kougioumtzoglou
Edoardo Patelli
Siu-Kui Au
Editors
Encyclopedia of
Earthquake
Engineering
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Encyclopedia of Earthquake Engineering
Michael Beer
Ioannis A. Kougioumtzoglou
Edoardo Patelli (cid:129) Siu-Kui Au
Editors
Encyclopedia of
Earthquake Engineering
With2431Figuresand278Tables
Editors
MichaelBeer IoannisA.Kougioumtzoglou
InstituteforComputerSciencein DepartmentofCivilEngineering&
CivilEngineering EngineeringMechanics
GottfriedWilhelmLeibniz ColumbiaUniversity
UniversityHannover NewYork,NY,USA
Hannover,Germany
EdoardoPatelli Siu-KuiAu
InstituteforRisk&Uncertainty InstituteforRisk&Uncertainty
andCentreforEngineering andCentreforEngineering
Sustainability Dynamics
Liverpool,UK Liverpool,UK
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Preface
ThescopeoftheEncyclopediaofEarthquakeEngineeringcoverstheinter-
action between earthquake events and our engineering installations and
infrastructures. It is expected to range over buildings, foundations, under-
groundconstructions,lifelinesandbridges,roads,embankments,andslopes.
Althoughaplethoraofreferencesexistinthecontextoftreating/addressing
individual earthquake engineering topics, there is no literature dealing with
earthquake engineering in a comprehensive, versatile, and unified manner.
Inthisregard,theextremeeventofanearthquakehasamultifacetedimpact
onavarietyofactivities.Theseincludeday-to-dayoperationsofpublicand
privateserviceswhichhavegreatlyincreasedtheirexposuretorisk.
TheEncyclopediaisdesignedtoinformtechnicallyinclinedreadersabout
thewaysinwhichearthquakescanaffectengineeringinstallationsandinfra-
structuresandhow engineers would goaboutdesigningagainst,mitigating,
andremediatingtheseeffects.Itisalsodesignedtoprovidecross-disciplinary
andcross-domaininformationtodomainexperts.Specifically,theproposed
work introduces a coupling between traditional topics of earthquake engi-
neering,suchasgeotechnical/structuralengineering,topicsofbroaderinter-
estsuchasgeophysics,andtopicsofcurrentandemergingvaluetoindustrial
applications, such as risk management. In this regard, risk management is
included in a comprehensive manner, which addresses the dimension and
complexityofearthquakehazards.Thiselucidatesthevitalconnectionofthe
technical contents to the societal context. The main benefit of the Encyclo-
pediaisitsbreadthofcoveragetoprovidequickinformationonasubstantial
level to virtually all groups of readers from academia, industry, and the
generalpopulationwhowouldliketofindoutmoreintheareaofearthquake
engineering.
Overall, this work is a concerted effort to provide with a holistic
perspective on earthquake engineering–related issues of recent currency.
Its innovative, modular, and continuously updated form facilitates a potent,
self-contained, and readily accessible exposition of multi/interdisciplinary
elements in the broad field of earthquake engineering, thus enabling the
researcher/practitioner/designertoidentifylinksandpotentialfutureresearch
themesinanefficientandtimelymanner.
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Acknowledgments
The Editors greatly appreciate the effort made by the section editors, the
contributions of the authors related to work of high standards, as well as
thedeterminationofthereviewerstopreservehighqualitylevels.Further,the
Editors would like to thank Springer for its guidance and leadership on
makingthisgreatprojectareality.
MichaelBeer,Dr.-Ing.
ProfessorandHead
InstituteforComputerScienceinCivilEngineering
GottfriedWilhelmLeibnizUniversityHannover
Hannover,Germany
IoannisA.Kougioumtzoglou,Ph.D.
AssistantProfessor
DepartmentofCivilEngineering&EngineeringMechanics
ColumbiaUniversity
NewYork,NY,USA
EdoardoPatelli,Ph.D.
LecturerinUncertaintyandEngineering
InstituteforRisk&UncertaintyandCentreforEngineeringSustainability
Liverpool,UK
Siu-KuiAu,Ph.D.
IrProfessorofUncertainty,ReliabilityandRisk
InstituteforRisk&UncertaintyandCentreforEngineeringDynamics
Liverpool,UK
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About the Editors
Michael Beer Institute for Computer Science in Civil Engineering,
GottfriedWilhelmLeibnizUniversityHannover,Hannover,Germany
Michael Beer, Dr.-Ing., obtained his degrees in civil engineering from the
TechnicalUniversityofDresden,Germany.HeworkedatRiceUniversityas
a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation and held a faculty
positionatNationalUniversityofSingaporeintheDepartmentofCiviland
Environmental Engineering. Dr. Beer was a professor and the founding
directoroftheInstituteforRiskandUncertaintyintheUniversityofLiver-
pool.HeisnowprofessorandheadoftheInstituteforComputerSciencein
Civil Engineering at Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University Hannover,
Germany, as well as a guest professor in Tongji University, Shanghai,
China and a part-time professor in the Institute for Risk and Uncertainty,
UniversityofLiverpool.
Ioannis A. Kougioumtzoglou Department of Civil Engineering & Engi-
neeringMechanics,ColumbiaUniversity,NewYork,NY,USA
Ioannis Kougioumtzoglou, Ph.D., obtained his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees
fromthecivilandenvironmentalengineeringdepartmentofRiceUniversity,
Texas,USA.Healsoholdsafive-yearDiplomainCivilEngineeringfromthe
National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece, and is a profes-
sional/charteredcivilengineerinGreece.Heiscurrentlyanassistantprofes-
sor at the Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at
ColumbiaUniversity,NewYork,USA.
EdoardoPatelli InstituteforRisk&UncertaintyandCentreforEngineer-
ingSustainability,Liverpool,UK
Edoardo Patelli, Ph.D., obtained his degrees in nuclear engineering and
Ph.D. in radiation science and technology from the Politecnico di Milano,
Italy. He worked at the Institute for Engineering Mechanics, University of
Innsbruck,Austria.Heiscurrentlyalecturerinuncertaintyandengineeringat
theInstituteforRiskandUncertaintyattheUniversityofLiverpool,UK,and
the head of computational technology for the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral
Training inRisk and UncertaintyQuantification. Patelli is also an honorary
memberoftheNationalTsingHuaUniversity,Taiwan.
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