Earthquake Hazard Assessment: India and Adjacent Regions

ISBN-13: 9780367781170 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 176 str.

Sreevalsa Kolathayar; T. G. Sitharam

Opis

The book provides an overview of the background to and details of earthquake hazard estimation in India in a very comprehensive manner with details on seismicity data management, seismicity analysis, seismic source characterization, seismic hazard estimation using various methods and site characterization. The work presents a scientific approach

Spis treści

Introduction. Earthquake Data Processing and Seismicity Analysis. Seismic Source Modelling. Deterministic Seismic Hazard Analysis. Characterization of Regional Seismic Zones. Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis. Site Response and Liquefaction Analyses. References.

O autorze

Dr. Sreevalsa Kolathayar (1985), obtained his B.Tech in Civil Engineering from Govt. Engineering College Thrissur. He served as Lecturer in the same college and finished his M.Tech from IIT Kanpur and PhD from Indian Institute of Science Bangalore. Sreevalsa has published several research papers and has been involved in various national technical projects. Currently he is serving as Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore.

Professor T.G. Sitharam (1961) did his Master of Science (Engineering) at the Indian Institute of Science in 1986 and pursued Doctoral programme at the University of Waterloo, Canada. Following his PhD in 1991, he did his Post Doctoral Research during the period 1992-1994 at the University of Texas, Austin, USA. Presently, he holds the position of Professor in Geotechnical Division of Civil Engineering Department at the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India, and is a member of Program Advisory Committee (PAC) for the nationally coordinated programme on seismicity under the Ministry of Earth Sciences, New Delhi and member of Expert Committee on Microzonation of urban centre Bangalore (DST, Government of India) and Microzonation of Delhi (Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India).