Geotechnical Predictions and Practice in Dealing with Geohazards

Abstract

Prologue - 40 years Contributions to Geotechnical Engineering of Prof Hideki Ohta.- Part 1: Geotechnical Aspects of Some Recent Disasters.- 1. Tsunami induced by 2011 Tohoku-Pacific Ocean earthquake and a possible renewal plan.- 2. Tsunami Damages: what is unexpected? - 3. Past Earthquakes in Indonesia and New Seismic Hazard Maps for Earthquake Design of Buildings and Infrastructures.- 4. Lessons learned from the recent natural disasters in Indonesia.- 5. Behaviour of slope protection and retaining structures during the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake in China.- Part 2: Geotechnical Predictions.- 6. Consolidation and Creep Settlement of Embankment on Soft Clay: Prediction versus Observation.- 7. Numerical Simulation of Soil Structures Reinforced by Geosynthetics.- 8. Deformation Prediction of a Structure Placed on Soft Clay in Tokyo Bay Affected by Heavy Deep Well Pumping.- 9. Elasto-Plastic FEM Analysis and Safety Evaluation of Large Rockfill Dams during Reservoir Filling.- 10. Three Dimensional Soil/Water Coupled Analysis of Reverse Concreting Excavation Work.- 11. Spatial Discretization of Water Head in Soil-water Coupled Finite Element Analysis using HPM.- 12. Theoretical Analysis for Non-coaxiality of Toyoura Sand.- 13. Threshold of Friction Stabilizes Self-weight Transmission in Gravitating Loose Sand Heaps.- 14. Elasto-Plastic Constitutive Model for Unsaturated Soils with Subloading Surface Concept.- 15. Stress-Strain Relationship for the Singular Point on Yield Surface of Elasto-Plastic Constitutive Model and Quantification of Metastability.- 16. Analysis of the Earth Pressure Problems by Upper and Lower Equilibrium Method.- Part 3: Geotechnical Practices in Dealing with Geo-hazards.- 17. Railway Old Station Building: Enlargement and Underpinning.- 18. Analysis of slope stability and landslide in seismic activity regions.- 19. Recent Developments of PVD Soft Ground Improvement: Laboratory Test Results and Simulations.- 20. Study on Regional Ground Upheaval Phenomenon caused by the Rising of Groundwater Level and its Effect on Underground Infrastructure.- 21. A Robust Control Approach for Decision Making and Reliability Design of Soil Structures.- 22. Development of a Portable Triaxial Testing Apparatus -Smart Triaxial.- 23. Innovation in Disaster Mitigation Technologies.- Index.