Comprehensive Seismic Zonation Schemes for Regions at Different Scales

Chapter 1 Introduction and overview.- Chapter 2 Earthquake and seismicity.- Chapter 3 Seismic hazard analysis.- Chapter 4 Seismic site characterization.- Chapter 5 Local site effects for seismic zonation.- Chapter 6 Liquefaction.- Chapter 7 Principles and practices of seismic zonation.

Prof. Dr. T.G. Sitharam is a KSIIDC Chair Professor in the area of Energy and Mechanical Sciences and Senior Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru (IISc). He was former founder Chairman of the Center for Infrastructure, Sustainable Transport and Urban Planning (CiSTUP) at IISc. He is presently the Chairman of the AICTE South Western Zonal Committee, Regional office at Bengaluru and Vice President of the Indian Society for Earthquake Technology (ISET). He is the founder President of the International Association for Coastal Reservoir Research (IACRR). He was a Visiting Professor at Yamaguchi University, Japan, University of waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada; University of Dolhousie, Halifax, Canada; and ISM Dhanbad, Jharkhand. Sitharam has obtained his BE(Civil Engg) from Govt BDT College of Engineering from Mysore University, India in 1984, Masters in Civil Engineering from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in 1986 and Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada in 1991 in the area of geomechanics. Further he was a Research Scientist at center for earth sciences and engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Texas, USA until 1994. Over the last 25 years, he has carried out seismic microzonation of urban centers in India and developed innovative technologies in the area of seismic hazard, liquefaction, fracturing and geotechnical applications, leading to about 500 technical papers, Ten books, four patents, 125 consulting projects and two startup companies. He is the chief editor of two international journals (International Journal of Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering from IGI Global and Journal of Sustainable Urbanization, Planning and Progress (JSUPP) from UDS publishing House, China) in his areas of research. He has guided 30 Ph.D students and presently he has 8 doctoral students with him. He has advised more than 25 post doctoral students and 35 M Tech students.