UNIT I
ENGINEERING SEISMOLOGY: EARTHQUAKE PHENOMENON CAUSE OF
EARTHQUAKESFAULTS- PLATE TECTONICS- SEISMIC WAVES- TERMS ASSOCIATED
WITH EARTHQUAKESMAGNITUDE/INTENSITY OF AN EARTHQUAKE-SCALES-ENERGY
RELEASED-EARTHQUAKE
MEASURING INSTRUMENTS-SEISMOSCOPE, SEISMOGRAPH,
ACCELEROGRAPH-STRONG
GROUND MOTIONS- SEISMIC ZONES OF INDIA.
THEORY OF VIBRATIONS: ELEMENTS OF A VIBRATORY SYSTEMDEGREES OF FREEDOMCONTINUOUS SYSTEM-LUMPED MASS IDEALIZATION-OSCILLATORY
MOTION-SIMPLE
HARMONIC MOTION-FREE VIBRATION OF SINGLE DEGREE OF FREEDOM
(SDOF) SYSTEMUNDAMPED
AND DAMPED-CRITICAL DAMPING-LOGARITHMIC DECREMENT-FORCED
VIBRATIONS-HARMONIC EXCITATION-DYNAMIC MAGNIFICATION
FACTOR-EXCITATION BY
RIGID BASED TRANSLATION FOR SDOF SYSTEM-EARTHQUAKE GROUND
MOTION.