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This book provides comprehensive coverage of earthquake engineering basics, an overview of methods, and the scientific background on recent developments. Earthquake engineering is an interdisciplinary discipline of engineering that designs and analyzes structures, such as buildings and bridges, with earthquakes in mind. Its overall goal is to make such structures more resistant to earthquakes. Earthquake engineering is one of the more recent additions to the civil engineering specialties. While the need for earthquake engineering has always existed, the concepts and technology are a much more recent development. While all structures have a need to be designed to be earthquake resistant, it is the proliferation of high-rise buildings which has sparked the interest in developing earthquake survivability technology. The earthquake itself can move both laterally and vertically, providing forces to which the structure is not normally subject.
