文档介绍：SPECIAL TOPICS IN EARTHQUAKE GEOTECHNICAL
ENGINEERING
GEOTECHNICAL, GEOLOGICAL AND EARTHQUAKE
ENGINEERING
Volume 16
Series Editor
Atilla Ansal, Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute,
Boˇgaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey
Editorial Advisory Board
Julian Bommer, Imperial College London, .
Jonathan D. Bray, University of California, Berkeley, .
Kyriazis Pitilakis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Susumu Yasuda, Tokyo Denki University, Japan
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Special Topics in Earthquake
Geotechnical Engineering
by
MOHAMED A. SAKR
Egypt
ATILLA ANSAL
Turkey
Editors
Mohamed A. Sakr Atilla Ansal
Faculty of Engineering Kandilli Observatory and
Tanta University Earthquake Research Institute
Tanta Boˇgaziçi University
Egypt Cengelkoy, Istanbul
mamsakr@ Turkey
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ISSN 1573-6059
ISBN 978-94-007-2059-6 e-ISBN 978-94-007-2060-2
DOI -94-007-2060-2
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Foreword
The Egyptian Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering and the
mittee TC203 (previously TC4) on “Earthquake Geotechnical
Engineering and Associated Problems” of the International Society for Soil
Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering anised jointly the Satellite
Conference on Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering held in Alexandria prior to
the 17t