Encyclopaedia of Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Seismology

The Encyclopedia of Geotechnical Earth- quake Engineering & Seismology is designed to be the authoritative and comprehensive reference covering all major aspects of the sci- ence of earthquake engineering, specifically focusing on the interaction between earth- quakes and infrastructure. The encyclopedia comprises approximately 300 contributions. Since earthquake engineering deals with the interaction between earthquake disturbances and the built infrastructure, the emphasis is on basic design processes important to both non-specialists and engineers so that readers become suitably well informed without need- ing to deal with the details of specialist un- derstanding.