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PREFACE
Earthquake resistant geotechnical construction has e an important design aspect
recently. This book BASIC GEOTECHNICAL EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING is intended to
be used as textbook for the beginners of the geotechnical earthquake engineering curriculum.
Civil engineering undergraduate students as well as first year postgraduate students, who
have taken basic undergraduate course on soil mechanics and foundation engineering, will
find subject matter of the textbook familiar and interesting.
Emphasis has been given to the basics of geotechnical earthquake engineering as well
as to the basics of earthquake resistant geotechnical construction in the text book. At the end
of each chapter home work problems have been given for practice. At appropriate places,
solved numerical problems and exercise numerical problems have also been given to make
the subject matter clear. Subject matter of the textbook can be covered in a course of one
semester which is about of 4 to months duration. List of references given at the end of
book enlists references which have been used to prepare this basic book on geotechnical
earthquake engineering. Although the book is on geotechnical earthquake engineering, the
last chapter of book is on earthquake resistant design of buildings, considering its significance
in the context of earthquake re