"Earthquake Engineering: From Engineering Seismology to Optimal Seismic Design..." ed. by Abbas Moustafa

This book provides the state-of-the-art on recent progress in the field of seimology, earthquake engineering and structural engineering. The book should be useful to graduate students, researchers and practicing structural engineers.

The book deals with seismicity, seismic hazard assessment and system oriented emergency response for abrupt earthquake disaster, the nature and the components of strong ground motions and several other interesting topics, such as dam-induced earthquakes, seismic stability of slopes and landslides.
The book also tackles the dynamic response of underground pipes to blast loads, the optimal seismic design of RC multi-storey buildings, the finite-element analysis of cable-stayed bridges under strong ground motions and the acute psychiatric trauma intervention due to earthquakes.

This volume contains fifteen chapters written by researchers and experts in the fields of earthquake and structural engineering.

Contents
Preface
1 An Updated Seismic Source Model for Egypt
2 Dynamical Features of the Seismicity in Mexico by Means of the Visual Recurrence Analysis
3 Assessment of Seismic Hazard of a Territory
4 Detrended Fluctuation Analysis and Higuchi's Windowing Method Applied to an Analysis of Southern California Seismicity
5 A Simulation and Evaluation System Oriented to the Emergency Response Effectiveness of the Abrupt Earthquake Disaster
6 Rotational Components of the Seismic Fields Caused by Local Events
7 Earthquakes and Dams
8 Stability and Run-out Analysis of Earthquake-induced Landslides
9 Simplified Multi-Block Constitutive Model Predicting the Seismic Displacement of Saturated Sands along Slip Surfaces with Strain Softening
10 Detection of Accelerating Transient of Aseismic Rock Strain using Precursory Decline in Groundwater Radon
11 Seismic Reliability-Based Design Optimization of Reinforced Concrete Structures Including Soil-Structure Interaction Effects
12 Initial Shapes of Cable-Stayed Bridges during Construction by Cantilever Methods - Numerical Simulation and Validation of the Kao Ping Hsi Bridge
13 A Study on the Dynamic Dimension less Behaviours of Underground Pipes Due to Blast Loads Using Finite Element Method
14 Effect Evaluation of Radiative Heat Transfer and Horizontal Wind on Fire Whirlwind
15 Acute Psychiatric Trauma Intervention — The January 2010 Haiti Earthquake