Earthquake Engineering

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Thursday, September 26, 2002
Fall 2002
Earthquake Engineering SE 180
Instructor Ahmed Elgamal Office SERF 255 Tel. x
- 21075 e-mail elgamal_at_ucsd.edu   Office Hours
Tuesday, Thursday 2 PM 3 PM
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Recommended Text Books
Elements of Earthquake Engineering, By Andre
Filiatrault, Polytechnic International Press,
ISBN 2-533-00629-2."Earthquakes", By Bruce A
Bolt, ISBN 0-7167-2358-1, W.H. Freeman and
Company.
Dynamics of Structures, By Anil K. Chopra,
Prentice Hall, ISBN0-13-0855214-2.
Earthquakes, Bruce A. Bolt, W. H. Freeman and
Company, ISBN 0-7167-2358-1.
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Additional Books
Dynamics of Structures, A Primer, By Anil K.
Chopra, Earthquake Engineering Research
Institute, 2620 Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, CA
94704.
Ground Motion and Soil Liquefaction During
Earthquakes, H Bolton Seed and I M Idriss,
Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, 2620
Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94704
Vibrations and Waves, A P French, W W Norton
Company, ISBN 0 393 09936 9.
Seismic Design of Reinforced Concrete and
Masonary Buildings, T Paulay and M J N
Priestley, John Wiley and Sons, Inc, ISBN
0-471-54915-0
Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering, Steven L
Kramer, Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-13-374943-6
Seismic Design and Retrofit of Bridges, M J N
Priestley, F Seible and G M Calvi
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Additional Books
Structural Dynamics, R. Clough and J. Penzien
Vibration Analysis, Robert K Vierck, Harper and
Row Publishers, ISBN0-7002-2525-0
Fundamentals of Earthquake Engineering, N M
Newmark and Emilio Rosenblueth, Prentice Hall
Analytical Methods in Vibrations, Leonard
Meirovitch, The Macmillan Company
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Journals
Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics
Bulleting of Seismological Society of America
Earthquake Spectra
Earthquake Engineering
European Earthquake Engineering
Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering
Engineering Geology
Journal of Structural Engineering, ASCE
Journal of Engineering Mechanics, ASCE
Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental
Engineering, ASCE
Geotechnique
Journal of Geophysical Research
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SE 180 - Earthquake Engineering 2002 Tentative
Class Schedule
Introduction, Earthquake Scenario in San
Diego Dynamics (Single-degree-of-freedom system,
SDOF) / Numerics Introduction to
Webshaker Dynamics of Structures
(Multi-degree-of-freedom, MDOF) / Numerics
Project Earthquake Spectra (Response Spectrum
Approach) Midterm Earthquake Spectra (Inelastic
Systems) Engineering Seismology Project Enginee
ring Seismology (Faults, Focal Mechanism,) Video
In the Wake of the Quake Project Design
Codes Project Presentation / Final
(9/26) (10/2, 10/3, 10/8) (10/9) (10/10,
10/15, 10/16, 10/17) (10/22, 10/23) (10/29) (10
/30) (10/31, 11/5) (11/6) (11/7) (11/12,
11/13, 11/14) (11/21) (11/26) (12/3) (12/4,
12/5)
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Grades
Homework Assignments 30 of
Grade   Midterm 40 of
Grade   Project/Final 30 of
Grade