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Earthquake engineering

Type of study Doctoral
Language of instruction English
Code 224-0947/02
Abbreviation SI
Course title Earthquake engineering
Credits 10
Coordinating department Department of Geotechnics and Underground Engineering
Course coordinator doc. Ing. Petr Koníček, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

Main topics of the lectures: Seismic wave origin and propagation, seismic wave characteristics in the geological environment, earthquake, induced seismicity, technical seismicity, equipment, vibration evaluation using Eurocode 8, evaluation of blasts caused by blasting of explosives.

Literature

Villaverde, R.: Fundamental Concept of Earthquake Engineering. CRC Press, 2009. Towhaka, I.: Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering. Springer, 2008.

Advised literature

Shearer, P.M.: Introduction to Seismology. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1999.
Gibowicz S.J., Kijko A.: Introduction to Mining Seismology. Academic Press, 1994.