Portland-State-University 2024-2025 Bulletin

CE 443 Introduction to Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering

This course introduces basics of geotechnical earthquake engineering. Topics include earthquake characteristics, attenuation relationships, fundamentals of soil liquefaction, semi-empirical procedures for liquefaction triggering assessment for cohesionless soils, consequences of liquefaction, cyclic softening of cohesive soils, liquefaction mitigation techniques, and current research on liquefaction modeling.

Credits

4

Prerequisite

CE 341
  • Up one level
  • 400