The exhaustive list of topics in Introduction to Engineering Seismology in which we provide Help with Homework Assignment and Help with Project is as follows:
- Earthquake hazards
- Strong ground motions and site effects
- Landslides
- Liquefaction and tsunami damages.
- Early Engineering seismology and understanding of earthquakes.
- Engineering seismology.
- Terminologies and definitions.
- Earthquake types plate tectonics.
- Earthquake source mechanisms.
- Source models.
- Types of faults
- Activity and fault studies seismic magnitudes and intensity.
- Earthquake size
- Different magnitude scales and relations.
- Theory of wave propagation
- Seismic waves, body and surface waves.
- Earthquake recording instrumentations
- Concept of seismograph
- Seismic station: Sensors and data loggers
- Mechanical and digital sensors
- Build your own seismograph.
- Interpretation of Seismic Records - acceleration, velocity and displacement
- Frequency and Time Domain parameters: Response Spectra and Spectral parameters
- Epicenter and magnitude determination.
- World great Earthquakes
- Large and Damaging Earthquakes of India.
- Instruction to seismic zones and codes
- Global and National seismic hazard assessment mapping programs.
- Safety of individual site
- Concept of seismic microzonation
- Need for Microzonation
- Types and Scale
- Methodology.
- Seismic Hazard Analysis
- Methods: Deterministic and Probabilistic
- Suitable method for your project
- Attenuation models and Simulation of Strong Ground Motion.
- Site characterization
- Different methods and experiments
- Geotechnical properties
- Site classification and worldwide code recommendation.
- Site response
- Local site effects and evaluation methods
- Ground motion amplifications and estimation
- Development of response /design spectrum.
- Liquefaction
- Mechanism and factors causing liquefaction
- Estimation methods and procedures
- Mapping .
- Earthquake induced landslide
- Landslide hazard mapping
- Tsunami hazard, Consideration for Tsunami hazard mapping.
- Risk and Vulnerability Studies
- Different methods
- Different level of risk assessment.
- GIS
- Integration of hazard parameters on GIS Platform
- Final zonation map preparation for hazard and risk.