71 Best Books on Earthquake Engineering

Book Review: This book is very suitable for graduate and senior level courses in the field of dynamics of structures and earthquake engineering. The book contains many topics that relate to the theory of structural dynamics and its application pertaining to the earthquake analysis, response and design of structures. The book requires no prior knowledge of structural dynamics and the concepts are very detailed and integrated and the book is good for self-study by students and professionals.

Book Review: This book provides a comprehensive and practical treatment for all the engineers, designers and analysts of earthquake resistant structures. The book also covers the latest developments that have taken place in the field of earthquake design practice ever since its first publication. This includes the advancements made in the understanding of how structures and soils respond to ground shaking, robust form development to resist earthquake construction and many other forms of analysis and assessment.

“Introduction to Computational Earthquake Engineering” Book Review: The book focuses on various aspects of earthquake engineering and also highlights the applications of computational mechanics and computer science in earthquake engineering. The stochastic modeling and many advanced computational earthquake engineering topics are included in this book. The chapters cover different earthquake hazards like strong ground motion and faulting. The book uses the technique of advanced numerical analysis for estimating earthquake disasters. The techniques and methods featured in this book are inspired from recent progress in solid continuum mechanics and computational mechanics. The book will be suitable for the graduate students and researchers in earthquake engineering.

“Earthquake Resistant Engineering Structures VIII” Book Review: The book is based on the papers presented at the eighth conference in a biennial series on the subject “Earthquake Resistant Engineering Structures”. The chapters cover problems and aftereffects of earthquakes and tsunamis. The topics like Seismic isolation and energy dissipation, ground motion, soil structure interaction, and structural performance are discussed in detail. The book also highlights the designing process of earthquake resistant structures. The content of this book is supported using illustrative figures, graphs, and tables. The book also features recent developments and latest research in the field of earthquake engineering.

“Earthquake Engineering: Theory and Implementation with the 2015 International Building Code” Book Review: The book is fully updated and revised text featuring earthquake-resistant engineering techniques, regulations, and codes. The initial chapters of the book describe characteristics of earthquakes, linear elastic dynamic analysis, nonlinear and inelastic dynamic analysis, behavior of structures under seismic excitation, design of earthquake-resistant buildings, and seismic provisions of reinforced concrete structures. The later section of the book contains chapters featuring seismic provisions of steel structures, design of earthquake-resistant bridges, geotechnical aspects and foundations, synthetic earthquakes, and seismic isolation. The book is written from a practical perspective and contains many examples and designs of earthquake resistant structures. The book will be beneficial for the engineers, architects, and building inspectors.

“Basic Earthquake Engineering: From Seismology to Analysis and Design” Book Review: This book will be suitable for the senior undergraduate students, master students, and professionals of structural engineering. The book begins with an explanation of the fundamentals of seismotectonics, along with the causes, magnitude, and intensity of earthquakes. Moving on to basic elements of seismic hazard, the use of seismic hazard map in seismic design is explained. The chapters cover topics like response analysis of simple systems, building struc­tures, earthquake ground motions, design spectrum, seismic analysis, seismic design principles, and seismic design of reinforced concrete structures. The book consists of several worked examples based on seismic analysis of linear, nonlinear and base isolated buildings, and earthquake-resistant design. It also includes solved examples on seismic analysis of linear, nonlinear and base isolated buildings, earthquake-resistant design of frame and frame-shear wall systems which make it appropriate for senior undergraduate students, master students and structural engineers who are not familiar with core knowledge of structural earthquake engineering.

“Fundamentals of Earthquake Engineering: An Innovative Approach” Book Review: The book covers all the important aspects and concepts of engineering seismology, structural earthquake engineering, and geotechnical earthquake engineering. The topics like nature of earthquake sources and mechanisms, methods for the characterization of earthquake input motion, damage observed in reconnaissance missions, and modeling of structures are discussed in detail. The chapters also contain topics based on performance limit states, structural and architectural systems for optimal seismic response, and action and deformation quantities suitable for design. For better understanding of the readers, the chapters contain many examples and problems along with their solutions. The book will be useful for graduating students, professors, and practicing engineers of earthquake engineering.

“Earthquakes: Monitoring Technology, Disaster Management and Impact Assessment (Natural Disaster Research, Prediction and Mitigation)” Book Review: This book gives new examination on seismic tremors. Part One spotlights on the conduct of a basic spring-block model from the perspective of nonlinear elements and seismology. Part Two utilizes another strategy dependent on Extreme Learning Machine (ELM) for assurance of liquefaction powerlessness of soil dependent on Standard Penetration Test (SPT) and Cone Penetration Test (CPT) from the Chi-Chi seismic tremor. Section Three presents a survey of quake wonder in Nigeria, the episode and accessible information. Part Four depicts the conduct and disappointment components of unreinforced workmanship structures and distinctive recovery and reinforcing strategies. Section Five presents the outcomes identified with the favored wellsprings of data identified with Risk, Hazard and Natural debacle. Part Six presents results in regards to metropolitan and semi-country schoolchildren’s seismic danger insight, mindfulness and readiness of a profoundly seismic area, in the territory of Oaxaca, Mexico. Section Seven surveys the peculiar reduction in groundwater radon before the Taiwan huge tremors.

“Modern Global Seismology” Book Review: The book is a modern text, covering all the major aspects, basic principles, and key concepts of seismology. The chapters of this cover natural and anthropogenic seismic waves, earth’s large-scale internal structure, earthquake sources, treatments of seismic waves, waveform evaluation and modeling, and seismotectonics. The topics like dynamic processes, elastic-wave propagation, seismic instrumentation, and seismogram analysis are discussed in detail. The content of this book is supported with several illustrations, research articles, and examples. The book will be a good resource for a first-year graduate course in seismology. It will be a valuable tool for exploration seismologists.

“Introduction to Seismology” Book Review: The book aims at presenting a comprehensive introduction to seismic theory. The chapters of this book are up-to-date and deliver detailed information on non-double-couple sources, earthquake scaling, radiated energy, and finite slip inversions. The lengthy derivations are explained with the help of basic concepts. The topics like D ray tracing, earthquake location, attenuation, normal modes, and receiver functions are thoroughly explained. The applications of featured techniques are clearly explained with the help of many worked problems and detailed exercises. The book will be suitable for a first year undergraduate course in seismology.

“An introduction to Seismology” Book Review: The book focuses on presenting a fair introduction on seismology and describing its role in the earth sciences. It highlights the role of seismic waves in study of earthquakes and investigation of the plate tectonic processes that cause earthquakes. The refraction, reflection and teleseismic techniques are featured, for studying the structure, composition, and evolution of the earth. The chapters of this book feature all the major topics related to basic seismological theory, seismology and earth structure, earthquakes, seismology and plate tectonics, and seismograms as signals. A section of this book is dedicated to inverse problems and solutions of some selected problems. The book will be beneficial for the advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students of earth science.

“The Seismic Wavefield Vol. I” Book Review: The book delivers the information on seismograms with respect to physical propagation processes within the Earth. The earthquakes and man-made sources are observed from the point-of-view of both body waves and surface waves. The chapters of this book start with a description of the earth’s structure and the nature of seismic wave propagation. Moving further, the recent developments and advances in the theoretical background for seismic waves are addressed. Many examples of observed seismograms are included in this text. The book will be useful for the graduating students of seismology. It will be equally important for the researchers and professionals in academia and petroleum industry.

“The Seismic Wavefield Vol. II” Book Review: The book aims at presenting the relation between observed seismograms and propagation processes. The chapters of this book revolve around local and regional seismic events, global wave propagation, and the three-dimensional Earth. The content of this book is self-sufficient, detailed, and visually supported. Many figures and diagrams are included in this text. The theoretical developments in the field of seismology are enlisted. The book will be a good source for the students, researchers and professionals of petroleum industry. The practicing seismologists will also find this text helpful.

“Earthquake Engineering: From Engineering Seismology to Performance-Based Engineering” Book Review: The book is an updated and revised piece of work featuring recent developments in the field of Earthquake Engineering. The chapters of this book present computer based methods for structural analysis. The major advances in the characteristics of earthquake ground motions as well the topics like behavior and design of structures, and seismic design of non-structural systems are discussed in detail. The latest design methodologies available in earthquake engineering are highlighted in this text. The seismic resistant design inspired from supplemental damping and structural control is presented. The book will be a great source of information for the professionals and researchers involved in earthquake engineering.

“International Handbook of Earthquake and Engineering Seismology” Book Review: The book is a well-structured and comprehensive piece of text covering all the major aspects, concepts, and topics related to earthquakes and seismology. The chapters of this book are fully updated and provide deep knowledge about seismological fields. The topics like strong-motion seismology, earthquake engineering, quake prediction, and hazards mitigation are described in a reader-friendly manner. The applications of seismology in various fields are illustrated in this book. The articles presented in this book are written by leading scientists in their respective fields. The book will be beneficial for civil and structural engineers, geologists, geophysicists, as well as the seismologists in academia and industry.

“Fundamental Concepts of Earthquake Engineering” Book Review: The book highlights state-of-the-art concepts, procedures, and code provisions used for constructing earthquake-resistant structures. It starts with description of main aspects and historical development of earthquake engineering along with an outline of possible damages caused by earthquake. Moving further, the concepts of seismology, mechanisms of earthquake generation and propagation, and the various scales used to quantify the size of an earthquake are discussed. The final section of the book covers the design spectrum, conventional methods used to calculate the response of structures, soil-structure systems, and nonstructural components to earthquake ground motions. The book will be a good reference for the students and professionals of earthquake engineering.

“Instrumentation in Earthquake Seismology” Book Review: The book is an excellent blend of theoretical and practical aspects of seismic instrumentation. The chapters of this book are fully updated and introduce modern instruments used in earthquake seismology. The book is broadly divided into three sections dedicated to choosing and installing equipment for seismic stations, designing and setting up seismic networks and arrays, and maintaining and calibrating seismic instruments, respectively. The topics like seismic sensors, digitizers, seismic recorders, communication systems, and software used for seismic stations and networks are thoroughly explained. Many instruments and techniques namely, MEMS accelerometers, sigma-delta AD converters, dynamic range, and virtual networks are described in detail. The book will be an asset for seismologists, engineers, and technicians dealing with seismological instruments.

“Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering” Book Review: The fundamental principles, key concepts, and major aspects of geotechnical earthquake engineering are covered in this book. The chapters of this book also describe basic concepts underlying seismology, geotechnical engineering, and structural engineering, quite efficiently. The book is basically for the undergraduate and graduate students of structural dynamics, earthquake engineering or seismology. The professionals and researchers of the preceding fields will find this text helpful.

Book Review: This book focuses on all the concepts related to geotechnical earthquake engineering. The book also deals with the fields of seismology and structural engineering thereby describing the basic concepts in the fields of seismology, geotechnical engineering and structural engineering. Additionally the book also covers recent advancements and the advance topics in the fields of seismology, geotechnical engineering and structural engineering.

Book Review: This book carries out a discussion on basic earthquake principles, common earthquake effects and damages caused due to structures because of seismic shaking. The book also discusses the conditions that are faced by engineers like liquefaction, capacity bearing, slope stability, settlement and many more. The book also discusses the site improvement methods which reduce the impact of earthquakes on structures. The book covers basic earthquake principles, structural damage, wall analysis, grading and many other concepts.

“Earthquake Resistant Engineering Structures VII” Book Review: The content of this book is inspired from the papers presented at the Seventh World Conference on Earthquake Resistance and Engineering Structures held at Cyprus, 2009. The topics like earthquake resistant design, seismic behavior and vulnerability, structural dynamics, passive protection devices, seismic isolation, site effects and geotechnical aspects, bridges, lifelines, and material characterization are discussed in detail. The book also highlights the development and applications of passive anti-seismic systems. The chapters featuring experimental studies and numerical simulation related to various fields of earthquake engineering are included in this text. The content of this book is supported by several diagrams, figures, and tables. The book will be suitable for the engineers, scientists, and managers working in industry, academia, research organizations and governments.

“International Handbook of Earthquake Engineering: Codes, Programs, and Examples” Book Review: The book is an excellent blend of theory, regulation, analysis, and design of seismically safe structures from all over the world. It covers all the key concepts and latest information related to earthquake engineering and structural dynamics. The chapters of this book features separate seismic codes for different countries. The book also highlights geography, geology, and history of earthquakes of many countries. For better understanding and self-assessment of the readers, many examples and programs are included in text. The book will be an asset for the students, engineers, and professionals responsible for design, construction, maintenance, and regulation of seismically safe structures.

“Advanced Geotechnical Engineering Soil-Structure Interaction using Computer and Material Models” Book Review: The book introduces a number of computer and analytical methods for dealing with several geotechnical problems. The topics like behavior of soils, rocks, interfaces, and joints are discussed in detail. The chapters present a finite element method, finite difference method, computer codes, and many analytical methods in order to get realistic solutions for soil structure problems. Few chapters of this text lay an emphasis on solving practical problems using hand calculations. The methods and techniques mentioned in this book can be used as applications to solve the problems related to dams, slopes, piles, retaining structures, tunnels, pavements, and seepage. The book will be beneficial for the practitioners, students, teachers, and researchers related to geotechnical and structural engineering as well as some basic mechanics courses.

“Advanced Geotechnical Analyses” Book Review: The book is a balanced piece of work featuring both engineering judgment and advanced principles of engineering mechanics used to deal with many complex geotechnical engineering problems. The initial section of the book describes interaction between solid and fluid for static as well as dynamic loading. Moving further, topics like effect of stress on retaining walls, uses of anisotropic soil model, finite element analysis, and dynamics of pile driving are discussed in detail. The final section of the book highlights the development and use of explicit finite difference methods for analyzing and solving various geotechnical engineering problems. The book will be useful for the students and practitioners of geotechnical engineering.

“Introduction To Computational Earthquake Engineering” Book Review: The book is written from theoretical as well as practical point-of-view and aims in introducing solid continuum mechanics, finite element method, and stochastic modeling required for earthquake engineering. It begins with the explanation of topics like numerical simulation of strong ground motion, faulting, analytical methods for linear models, and analytical methods for non-linear stochastic models. Moving on to computational technology, the advanced topics like integrated earthquake simulation, visualization of earthquake simulation, and earthquake resistant design are discussed in detail. For the better understanding of the readers, the book contains many practical examples. The chapters of this book also explain the application of numerical simulations and computational science technology to earthquake engineering problems.

“Encyclopedia of Earthquake Engineering” Book Review: This book is intended to be the definitive and thorough reference covering all significant parts of the study of tremor designing, explicitly zeroing in on the connection among quakes and foundation. The reference book contains around 265 commitments. Since tremor designing arrangements with the connection between quake aggravations and the fabricated foundation, the accentuation is on essential plan measures critical to both non-trained professionals and architects so perusers become reasonably all around educated without expecting to manage the subtleties of expert agreement. The reference book likewise expects to give cross-disciplinary and cross-space data to area specialists. This is the primary single reference book of this broadness and extension that unites the science, designing and mechanical parts of tremors and constructions.

“Advances in Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering (Geotechnical, Geological and Earthquake Engineering)” Book Review: The book is beneficial for scientists and practitioners in the field of structural earthquake engineering, geotechnical earthquake engineering, engineering seismology and experimental dynamics. It includes ground motions for performance-based earthquake engineering. The book contains methods and implementation for performance-based seismic design and retrofitting. It also describes seismic testing for performance-based earthquake engineering.

“Earthquake Hazard and Risk (Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research)” Book Review: This book is useful for seismologists, geophysicists, earth scientists and all those who are involved in researches in earthquake hazard and seismic risk. The book describes the latest research in earthquake hazard and seismic risk. It discusses the algorithms and methods for seismological applications. It also discusses the physical and statistical nature of earthquake occurrences. The book presents the effects of surface seismological conditions.

“Earthquake Resistant Engineering Structures (Advances in Earthquake Engineering)” Book Review: The book discusses analysis and design of structures resistant to earthquake damage. It includes engineering seismology and applicable numerical methods. The book contains information about soil-structure interaction. It also discusses the principles of design of the structures resistant to earthquake damage.

“Advances in Earthquake Engineering for Urban Risk Reduction” Book Review: This book discusses the assessment and rehabilitation of buildings, which are more vulnerable to earthquake damage. It also provides probabilistic prediction of structural damage. It gives an economical and practical approach to solve the problems of earthquakes.

“Seismic Isolation for Earthquake-resistant Structures” Book Review: The book is helpful for students and engineers who are interested in seismic isolation for earthquake resistant structures. The book describes seismic isolation to reduce earthquake damage in low to medium rise buildings. The book contains advantages and disadvantages of seismic isolation. It discusses the capability of seismic isolation to decouple a structure from the damaging effects of ground acceleration. The book also describes various seismic isolation systems thoroughly. It discusses the design methodology for seismically isolated structures.

“Modern Earthquake Engineering” Book Review: The book is helpful for researchers, students and civil engineers. It gives applications of earthquake engineering for off-shore and land-based structures. The book presents information about engineering seismology, geotechnical earthquake engineering and structural engineering. The book explains design philosophy, shock waves tsunamis, earthquake damage, seismic response of off-shore and arctic structures, and spatial varied ground motions. It consists of advanced seismic analysis methods and tank liquid impacts during earthquakes.

“Peace of Mind in Earthquake Country: How to Save Your Home, Business, and Life” Book Review: This book is updated and expanded third edition. This book provides one’s property to withstand a powerful quake. It also explains how earthquakes occur. It also gives us
construction methods for fault zones. It helps us understand shore up existing buildings. It explains insurance policies, maps existing. It explains terms suspected faults, and demystifies terms like “liquefaction” and “cripple walls.

“Elements of 3D Seismology” Book Review: The book is an updated and revised piece of work featuring the latest theory and recent developments in 3D seismology. The book states basics, techniques, and applications of 3-D seismic theory. The chapters of this book are majorly divided into waves, acquisition, data processing, color plates, and interpretation. It also includes a free companion CD with QuickTime movies. The book provides easy-to-grab knowledge to the readers. The book introduces students, researchers, and professionals to the elements of 3D seismology.

“Exploration Seismology” Book Review: The book is an updated and revised piece of work featuring latest theory and recent developments in exploration seismology. It starts with the history of exploration seismology and features the theory developed from the first principles of physics. Moving further, the process of data-processing and interpretation is discussed. The applications of seismic exploration in groundwater, environmental and reservoir geophysics are also mentioned. The book will be suitable for the under-graduating geologists, geophysicists and engineers. The practising professionals will also find this text helpful.

“Seismic Tomography: with Applications in Global Seismology and Exploration Geophysics (Modern Approaches in Geophysics)” Book Review: The book is written from both theoretical as well as practical point-of-view and aims in presenting latest information on seismic tomography. The chapters of this book features imaging of transmitted seismic waves along with its application in the Earth sciences. The applications of seismic tomography in various fields like electron microscopy, diagnostic medicine, and radio astronomy are mentioned in this book. The book will be useful for the students, researchers, professionals, geologists, and geophysicists interested in seismic tomography.

“Problems in Exploration Seismology and Their Solutions (Geophysical References)” Book Review: The book is written from both theoretical as well as practical point-of-view and aims in presenting basic theory necessary to solve practical problems. Large varieties of problems are featured in this text. The chapters present least-squares methods, velocities for various situations, z-transforms, and determination of 2D and 3D field geometries. It provides easy-to-grab knowledge to the readers. This book will be a good resource for the students, researchers, geologists, and geophysicists, seeking deep knowledge in problems of exploration seismology.

“Basic Theory in Reflection Seismology: with Mathematical Notebooks and Examples on CD-ROM: 1 (Handbook of Geophysical Exploration: Seismic Exploration)” Book Review: The book aims at presenting latest theory for understanding the principles lying under imaging the subsurface of the earth with the help of reflection and refraction seismology. The chapters of this book feature various principles of imaging. The basic mathematical concepts and theory necessary to understand reflection seismology data sets are clearly explained. The book will be useful for the students, researchers, professionals, geologists, and geophysicists.

“Seismic Methods and Applications: A Guide for the Detection of Geologic Structures, Earthquake Zones and Hazards, Resource Exploration, and Geotechnical Engineering Book Review: The book is an excellent blend of theoretical and practical aspects of geology and presents information on seismic exploration method. The topics of this book are explained using basic mathematics. The chapters of the book include discussions and principles for the detection of geologic structures, earthquake zones and hazards, resource exploration, and geotechnical engineering. The book also allows the reader to naturally progress from the underlying physical principles to the actual seismic method. The book will be helpful for the students and professionals seeking clear-cut and easy-to-understand theories on seismic exploration methods.

“Handbook of Poststack Seismic Attributes (Geophysical References)” Book Review: The book is an updated and revised piece of work featuring latest theory in poststack seismic attributes. The book features the ideas underlying seismic attributes and presents an overview from their origins to current developments. The chapters are described in detail and cover various aspects of geologic structure and stratigraphy, primarily dip, azimuth, curvature, reflection spacing, and parallelism, spectral decomposition, thin-bed analysis, and waveform classification. The data interpretation, frequency shadows, faults, channels, diapirs, and data reconnaissance is discussed. The book will be suitable for the students, seismic data interpreters, data processors, researchers, and reflection seismologists involved in petroleum exploration.

“Earthquake Resistant Design of Structures” Book Review: This book delivers concepts and principles of earthquake resistant design of structures; and uses principles in implementation of seismic design practice. It involves a detailed approach on fundamentals of structural dynamics, application of seismic codes in analysis and design of structures and seismic evaluation and retrofitting of reinforced concrete and masonry buildings. It is useful for undergraduate and postgraduate students of civil engineering, practising engineers, architects, field engineers and teachers in the field of earthquake resistant design of structures.

“Earthquake Resistant Design of Structures” Book Review: This book give details information about different sources of damage that can be triggered by an earthquake, the conceptual method of earthquake-resistant design, earthquakes, ground motion, structure and soil in terms of their seismic response, guidelines for efficient seismic-resistant design, with special attention to timber, masonry, concrete, and steel buildings. It acts as a guide for postgraduate students of civil engineering, practising engineers, and architects.

“Earthquake-Resistant Design of Building Structures” book review: This book supply latest advanced research in the seismic analysis and design, seismology, seismic measurements, seismic effects on structures, estimation of seismic demand on structures, covers the analysis and design of the structure for seismic resistance, load-resisting mechanisms and lateral load-resisting capacity of the structures. It is a resource which is not only for undergraduates and graduate students in Civil and Structural Engineering but also for Practicing Engineers and Architects.

“Earth-quake Resistant Design of Structures” Book Review: This book describes different sources of damage that can be triggered by an earthquake, the conceptual method of earthquake-resistant design, structure and soil in terms of their seismic response, conceptual design for enumerating factors that cause damage, offering guidelines for efficient seismic-resistant design and structural damage induced by vibration on timber, masonry, concrete, and steel buildings. It is helpful for B-Tech or BE programs and postgraduate students of civil engineering, practising engineers and architects.

“Earthquake-Resistant Structures: Design, Build, and Retrofit” Book Review: This book aims to provide structural engineers with tools and information to improve current building, bridge design and construction practices; enhance their sustainability during and after seismic events design applications; code provisions, earthquake-resistant structures features seismic design; retrofitting techniques for low and high raise buildings; single and multi-span bridges; dams and nuclear facilities; seismic design and retrofitting techniques for all structures; tools improve current building and bridge designs; latest methods for building earthquake-resistant structures; combines physical and geophysical science with structural engineering.

“Earthquake- Resistant Structures: Design, Assessment and Rehabilitation” Book Review: This book encompass seismic-resistance design of masonry, reinforced concrete structures to be constructed, safety assessment, strengthening and rehabilitation of existing structures against earthquake loads, electromagnetic sensing techniques for health assessment of structures, post earthquake assessment of steel buildings in fire environment response of underground pipes to blast loads and earthquake-resistant structures like buildings, bridges and liquid storage tanks. It is ideal for graduate students, researchers and practicing structural engineers.

“Earthquake-Resistant Structures: Design and Analytical Aspects” Book Review: This book incorporate research works contributed by various experts, researchers in the field of earthquake engineering, seismic-resistance design of masonry and reinforcement of concrete structures with safety measurements of strengthening, rehabilitation of existing structures against earthquake loads, assessment and rehabilitation of jacket platforms, electromagnetic sensing mechanisms for health assessment of structures, post-earthquake examining of steel buildings in fire environment and response of underground pipes to blast loads. It is resourceful for graduate students, researchers and practicing structural engineers.

“Earthquake-Resistant Design with Rubber” Book Review: This book contains topics like coupled lateral-torsional response, the behavior of multilayer bearings under compression and bending, the buckling behavior of elastomeric bearings, recent changes in building code requirements, design methods and guidelines related to seismic isolation and isolation systems that use a damped natural rubber. Base isolation technology offers a cost-effective and reliable strategy for mitigating seismic damage to structures, the benefit of this new technology has been demonstrated in laboratory research and base-isolated buildings during earthquakes. New and existing buildings in earthquake-prone regions throughout the world are making use of this innovative strategy.

“Homebuilders’ Guide to Earthquake-Resistant Design and Construction (Fema 232 – June 2006)” Book Review: This book summarizes seismic design and construction guidance. This book interests homebuilders, knowledgeable homeowners, and other non-engineers. It provides us prescriptive provisions of the 2003 International Residential Code. It also gives knowledge about FEMA-funded CUREE-Caltech Wood Frame Project. It gives building detail plans based on state-of-the- art earthquake-resistant. It also contains construction of a non-engineered residential structure. This book is also giving applications and benefits.

“Analysis and Design of Foundations and Retaining Structures Subjected to Seismic Loads” Book Review: The book offers a systematic treatment of the analysis and design of foundations and retaining structures subjected to dynamic loads. Topics covered in the book include dynamic soil properties & liquefaction, pile and well foundations, rigid and waterfront retaining structures, bridge abutments, reinforced earth and soils nailed walls. A number of solved examples are included in each chapter. Textbook for graduate students and practicing geotechnical engineers.

“Seismic Design of RC Buildings (Springer Transactions in Civil and Environmental Engineering)” Book Review: Textbook for engineering courses on earthquake resistant design. The book covers important attributes for seismic design such as material properties, damping, ductility, stiffness and strength. It also covers simple concepts and proceeds right up to nonlinear analysis and push-over method for checking building adequacy. It provides an insight into the design of base isolators highlighting their merits and demerits. It also lists the care required in practical design and construction of various building components. It covers modal analysis in depth including the important missing mass method of analysis and tension shift in shear walls and beams. These have important bearing on reinforcement detailing. The book also provides the methodology for assessment of seismic forces on basement walls and pile foundations. It provides a practical approach to design and detailing of soft storeys, short columns, vulnerable staircases and many other components. Book for upper undergraduate and graduate students taking courses on seismic design of structures.

“Integrated Seismic Design of Structure and Control Systems (Springer Tracts in Mechanical Engineering)” Book Review: The book explains how slender structural systems with a high seismic performance can be achieved through inclusion of viscous and viscoelastic dampers as an integral part of the system. It covers essential introductory information on passive structural control and passive energy dissipation systems. It also explains how the optimal integrated design methodology, also relevant to retrofitting of existing buildings, should be applied. The book illustrates how structural control research is opening up new possibilities in structural forms and configurations without compromising structural performance. It also lists dynamic analyses of both single and multiple degree of freedom systems.

“Displacement Based Seismic Design of Structures: 1” Book Review: It is a book for practicing structural designers who are interested in applying performance-based concepts to seismic design. It explains how to develop a deeper understanding of how design can be used to control seismic response. It is also a guide for researchers and to graduate and upper-level undergraduate students of earthquake engineering. It contains designs of displacement-based seismic.

“Seismic Design of Reinforced Concrete Buildings” Book Review: The book contains behavior of reinforced concrete materials, components, and systems subjected to routine and extreme loads, with an emphasis on response to earthquake loading. It also contains design methods, both at a basic level as required by current building codes and at an advanced level needed for special problems such as seismic performance assessment. Data and models useful for analyzing reinforced concrete structures as well as numerous illustrations, tables and equations are included. Its contents include seismic design and performance verification, steel reinforcement, confined concrete, shear in beams, columns, and walls, beam-column connections, slab-column and slab-wall connections, etc. It also covers overview of seismic design, special moment frames, special structural walls, ravity framing and more.

“Performance-Based Seismic Design of Concrete Structures and Infrastructures (Advances in Civil and Industrial Engineering)” Book Review: This book lists research developments in the engineering field that are imperative for sustaining buildings against the threat of earthquakes and other natural disasters. It contains all the latest trends and emerging data associated with structural design. It covers key topics such as seismic assessments, shear wall structures and infrastructure resilience. It also lists best methods and techniques for designing solid structural designs. Book for students, professionals and researchers.

“Response Spectrum Method in Seismic Analysis and Design of Structures (New Directions in Civil Engineering)” Book Review: This textbook examines the wealth of information on the response spectrum method generated by the latest research. It contains applications of methods that are essential in the seismic design of critical structures, such as nuclear power plants and petroleum facilities. Reference for civil, structural, mechanical, and earthquake engineers.

“Seismic Design of Building Structures: A Professional’s Introduction to Earthquake Forces and Design Details” Book Review: This book includes key terms and seismic building codes. It contains a review of seismic theory, code application, design principles and structural analysis. It also demonstrates how to apply concepts, codes and equations to solve realistic problems. Topics covered include basic seismology, details of seismic-resistant structures, diaphragm theory, earthquake characteristics, effects of earthquakes on structures and vibration theory.

“Ductile Seismic Design of Steel-Concrete Composite Structures” Book Review: This book provides adequate limitations on mechanical properties for steel products. It shows how the design method strongly depends on actual mechanical properties of materials. It discusses the possibility that the actual yield strength of steel is higher than the nominal yield strength in dissipative zones. The book lists suitable harmonized rules and recommendations for production standards and structural regulations for steel-concrete composite structures located at earthquake-prone areas.

“Seismic Design Guidelines for Port Structures” Book Review: The book contains international guidelines for seismic design of port structures. It addresses the limitations inherent in conventional design and how to establish the framework for an evolutionary design strategy based on seismic response and performance requirements. It also discusses the diverse nature of port facilities throughout the world, where the required functions of port structures, economic and social environment and seismic activities may differ from region to region. The book introduces basic earthquake engineering concepts and a strategy for performance-based design. It also lists the technical commentaries and specific aspects of seismic analysis and design. It also provides examples of various applications of the guidelines. It provides integrated guidelines in order to provide a flexible and consistent methodology for the seismic design of port facilities.

“Protection of Built Environment Against Earthquakes” Book Review: Current information and cutting edge improvements in subjects identified with the seismic presentation and danger evaluation of various kinds of constructions and building stock are tended to in the book, with accentuation on probabilistic techniques. The book contains instances of steel, brick work and supported solid structures, just as certain models identified with different sorts of framework, for example, scaffolds and solid gravity dams. The book’s point is to make a commitment towards the alleviation of seismic danger by introducing progressed strategies and apparatuses which can be utilized to accomplish all around educated dynamics, this being the critical component for the future assurance of the constructed climate against quakes. This book will bear some significance with analysts, postgraduate understudies and rehearsing engineers working in the fields of common dangers, quake, primary and geotechnical designing, and computational mechanics, yet it might likewise be alluring to different specialists working in the fields identified with social and monetary effect of tremors.

“Seismic Signatures and Analysis of Reflection Data in Anisotropic Media” Book Review: This book explains the exploration benefits of anisotropic processing. The book gives information on reflection seismic signatures. It also contains processing methods in anisotropic media. The book describes practical methodologies for estimating isotropic media from seismic data. It also covers the stability of seismic velocity analysis in the presence of anisotropy. The book also covers anisotropic imaging methods.

“Advances in Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering (Geotechnical, Geological and Earthquake Engineering)” Book Review: The book would interest scientists, and advanced practitioners in structural earthquake engineering, engineering seismology, and experimental dynamics. The book contains important topics like Ground motions for performance-based earthquake engineering, methodologies for performance-based seismic design and retrofitting, implementation of performance-based seismic design and retrofitting, and advanced seismic testing for performance-based earthquake engineering.

“Recent Advances in Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics” Book Review: The book includes recent and ongoing developments in the entire spectrum of topics in earthquake engineering and engineering seismology, research and practice. The book can be read by Engineers, and scientists. Beginners can also prefer this book as the language is easy to understand and the explanation of each concept is enough to know about it.

“Dynamic Structural Design: Inverse Problem Approach: 6 (Advances in Earthquake Engineering)” Book Review: Finite element method, boundary element method that have stimulated the application of Inverse Problems in vibrations, are explained. Topics also include seismic-resistant design of building structures, the concept of ‘performance-based design’, dynamic structural design approach, inverse problem formulations, and many more. Each chapter contains simple models that makes it easier for readers to understand the formulas and concepts.

“Structural Damping: Applications in Seismic Response Modification (Advances in Earthquake Engineering)” Book Review: The book considers the dynamic responses of structures with added damping devices as systems governed by the combined effect of static stiffness, period, and damping of the structure-device system. Book has illustrated design examples for better understanding. The book is suggested for earthquake engineers as it provides them with the idea of choosing appropriate type of damper, and determining its amount and configuration.