Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering
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The official GTU curriculum for Geotechnical Earthquake Engg. (subject code 3714314) as prescribed for GE · Semester 1 divides the course into 4 units, covering 26 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (3714314)Unit 1 Seismology
- Causes of earthquake
- Plate tectonics
- Earthquake fault
- Seismic waves
- Elastic rebound theory
- Quantification of earthquake
- Intensity and magnitudes
- Earthquake source models
Unit 2 Earthquake Ground Motion & Ground Response Analysis
- Characteristics of ground motion
- Effect of local site conditions on ground motions
- Strong Ground Motion
- Design earthquake
- Design spectra
- Development of site specification and code-based design spectra
- One-dimensional ground response analysis: Linear approaches
- Equivalent linear approximation of non-linear approaches
Unit 3 Seismic Hazards Analysis
- Mitigation of Seismic Hazards
- Seismic Hazard Analysis
- Probabilistic & Deterministic Approaches
- Wave Propagation in unbounded media: in semi- infinite bodies
- in layered soils and attenuation of stress waves
- Dynamic soil properties
Unit 4 Liquefaction and Lateral Spreading
- Liquefaction related phenomena
- effects of liquefaction
- Liquefaction susceptibility: Historical
- Compositional and State criteria
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