One dimensional wave propagation
- elastic body wave propagation
- surface waves
- differences between p, s, and surface waves
- material and radiation damping
- linear elastic, visco‐elastic, and nonlinear inelastic stress‐strain behavior
- equivalent‐linear representation of soil behavior for ground response problems
- nonlinear representation of soil behavior for ground response problems
- nonlinear models with pore pressure generation
Dynamic soil behavior (low‐strain range):
- Gmax, Vs, method of measuring Vs.
- Effects of sampling disturbance
- Correlations between Vs (or Gmax) and other parameters
G/Gmax, damping:
- Concept of threshold strain and recommended relations
Dynamic soil behavior (high‐strain range):
- test types used for cyclic testing
- effects of sample reconstitution
- critical state soil mechanics
- stress paths and soil behavior under monotonic loading
- static liquefaction, flow liquefaction surface, phase transformation line
- stress paths during cyclic loading
- cyclic behavior of saturated sands and clays
Site response analysis:
- transfer function for simple elastic layer on rigid base
- transfer function for layered elastic system
- SHAKE‐type analyses
- effects of soil properties on site response
- nonlinear analyses
Newmark sliding block analysis
- introduce pseudo‐static analysis and its use in calculating ky
- sliding block concept, integration process
- Newmark‐based charts
- advantages and limitations