Coupled Site and Soil-Structure Interaction Effects with Application to Seismic Risk Mitigation (NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security)

Preface.-List of Participants.- I Site Conditions and their Role in Seismic Hazard Analyses.- The Nature of Site Response during Earthquakes; M.D. Trifunac.- Earthquake Source and Local Geology Effects on the Seismic Site Response; M. Kouteva-Guentcheva et al.- Wave Propagation in the Anisotropic Inhomogeneous Half-Plane; T. Rangelov, P. Dineva.- Hybrid Simulation of Seismic Wave Propagation in Laterally Inhomogenous Media; T. Schanz et al.- On the Influence of Saturation and Frequency on Monochromatic Plane Waves in Unsaturated Soils; B. Albers.- Local Site Effects and Seismic Response of Bridges; P. Psarropoulos.- Local Site Effect Evaluation in Seismic Risk Mitigation; B. Gatmiri.- Seismic Site Effect Modelling Based on in situ Borehole Measurements in Bucharest, Romania; A. Bala et al.- II Soil-Structure Interaction.- Issues Related to the Dynamic Interaction of Retaining Walls and Retained Soil Layer; Y. Tsompanakis.- The Effect of Soil-Structure Interaction and Site Effects on Dynamic Response and Stability of Earth Structures; V. Zania et al.- Cyclic and Dynamic Mechanical Behaviour of Shallow Foundations on Granular Deposits; C. di Prisco et al.- Soil-Structure Interaction in Nonlinear Soil; V. Gicev.- Separation of the Effects of Soil-Structure Interaction in Frequency Estimation of Buildings from Earthquake Records; M. Todorovska.- Analysis of Seismic Interactions Soil-Foundation-Bridge Structures for Different Foundations; B. Folic, R. Folic.- III The Role of Site Effects and of Soil Structure Interaction in Design of Structures.- Seismic Assessment of Bridges Accounting for Nonlinear Material and Soil Response, and Varying Boundary Conditions; A. Kappos, A. Sextos.- Structural Response to Complex Synthetic Ground Motions; G. Manolis, A. Athanatopoulou.- Single and Multi-Platform Simulation of Linear and Non-Linear Bridge-Soil Systems; A. Sextos, O. Taskari.- Design Seismic Response Evaluation of Wall Systems Including Foundation Flexibility; T. Schanzet al.- Effect of Depth of Ground Water on the Seismic Response of Frame Type Buildings on Sand Deposits. Part I: Soil Response; S.U. Dikmen et al.- IV General and Related Subjects.- Extracting the Time-Domain Building Response from Random Vibrations; R. Snieder.- Recent Measurements of Ambient Vibrations in Free-Field and in Buildings in Croatia; M. Herak, D. Herak.- Analysis of Dynamic Impact on a Ground Slope During Destruction of an Emergency House; I. Sadovenko et al.- Author Index.-