Advances in Earthquake Geotechnics

Description

Geotechnical earthquake engineering currently plays one of the most important roles among the disciplines of civil engineering. Following the 1964 Niigata and the 1999 Kocaeli and Duzce destructive earthquakes, the topic of geotechnical earthquake engineering has become of crucial importance. At the Opening Session of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics, held in St. Louis in 1981, Professor Hudson said:

“I began to wonder if Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering is in fact any different from Earthquake Engineering. Even for the detailed problems of steel and concrete structural design, the importance of soil-structure interaction may be a critical matter. Geotechnical Engineering is indeed the foundation on which the whole subject is built.”

It is now widely recognized that geotechnical earthquake engineering is a multidisciplinary task covering structural engineering, seismology, geotechnical engineering, soil dynamics and microzonation disciplines. Performance-based design in geotechnical earthquake engineering has been developed mainly for new geotechnical systems designed to resist even severe earthquakes.

In this Special Issue, we offer the opportunity to present high-quality works regarding geotechnical earthquake engineering, considering the recent advances in performance-based design methodology, in damage evaluation due to local site amplification, in slope failure including landslide seismic hazard assessment and consequent risk mitigation, and in soil liquefaction phenomena.

We encourage submissions related, but not limited, to the seismic performance of buildings with shallow or pile foundations; to soil-structure interaction problems; to new developments on the performance-based analysis and design of buildings to resist earthquakes; and to displacement-based analysis for the seismic performance of retaining walls.

Contributions including case studies at local or regional scale, state-of-the-art reviews, and methodological papers are more than welcome.

Dr. Salvatore Grasso
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Geosciences is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1500 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI’s English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.