title: Geotechnical Engineering Handbook, Volumes 1-3 (v. 1-3)
author: Ulrich Smoltczyk
description: Ulrich Smoltczyk is editor of the German Grundbau Taschenbuch. He was Professor for geotechnical engineering in Stuttgart and sat on numerous national and international committees responsible for norms and standards.<br /> <br /> The authors - renowned experts - are from Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, U.K. and USA.
zlib_text: Geotechnical, Geological and Earthquake Engineering
  Michele Maugeri
  Claudio Soccodato    Editors 
  Earthquake 
  Geotechnical 
  Engineering 
  Design
  
  Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering Design
  
  GEOTECHNICAL, GEOLOGICAL AND EARTHQUAKE
  ENGINEERING
  Volume 28
  Series Editor
  Atilla Ansal, School of Engineering, O¨zyeg˘in University, Istanbul, Turkey
  Editorial Advisory Board
  Julian Bommer, Imperial College London, U.K.
  Jonathan D. Bray, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A.
  Kyriazis Pitilakis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
  Susumu Yasuda, Tokyo Denki University, Japan
  For further volumes:
  http://www.springer.com/series/6011
  
  Michele Maugeri • Claudio Soccodato
  Editors
  Earthquake Geotechnical
  Engineering Design
  
  Editors
  Michele Maugeri
  Department of Civil and Environmental
  Engineering
  University of Catania
  Catania, Italy
  Claudio Soccodato
  General Secretary, Italian Geotechnical Society
  Rome, Italy
  ISSN 1573-6059
  ISSN 1872-4671 (electronic)
  ISBN 978-3-319-03181-1
  ISBN 978-3-319-03