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1.		Seismic Design of Building Structures: A Professionals Introduction to Earthquake Forces and Design Details from Professional Publications, Inc. Price: $74.95 Customer Review: I bought this book to study for the PE Structural 1. It is a thorough, item by item book that has excellent symbol references, clear definitions, worked examples etc. The author is interested on you, the reader, understanding seismic design, unlike many of the other books on the market that cater to... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


2.		Dynamics of Structures (3rd Edition) from Prentice Hall Price: $65.97 Customer Review: The organization and presentation is excellent. It is organized into two main parts: single degree of freedom systems(SDF) and multiple degree of freedom systems(MDF). An in-depth study of SDF systems comes first naturally since MDF systems can be viewed as solving multiple SDF systems. In terms of... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


3.		Seismic Principles Practice Exams for the California Special Civil Engineer Examination from Professional Publications, Inc. Price: $54.95 Customer Review: I was using this book to prep for the October 2009 Seismic Exam in California, and the example problems are filled with errors. It is maddening trying to evaluate yourself when you're finding mistakes in half the problems. For how much they charge for these guides, I'd have expected them to at least... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


4.		Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering from Prentice Hall Price: $99.38 Customer Review: It is good stuff. I learned all the best soil dancing moves. I am going to tear it up on the dance floor now. As long as there are good shear waves.	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


5.	[no image]	345 Solved Seismic Design Problems from Professional Pubns Inc Customer Review: Having taken the exam several times, I have an idea about how the problems on the exam look. This is a good book for learning the concepts, but the problems on the exam are more difficult and trickier. Expect to see all kinds of live loads for warehouses or partition loads in the seismic load and... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


6.		International Handbook of Earthquake & Engineering Seismology, Part B, Volume 81B (International Geophysics) from Academic Press Price: $40.00 Customer Review: I finally had a chance to crack open the surprise inside my copy of the Quake Handbook (two CD-ROMs at the back of PART B and another in Part A). And what a surprise!!! If I printed out all of the material packed into these the 3 included CD-ROMs, you could fill your departmental library.more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


7.		Rock Quality, Seismic Velocity, Attenuation and Anisotropy from Taylor & Francis Price: $159.96 Customer Review: This encyclopedic monograph expresses nearly 40 years of Nick Barton's research interests in engineering classification of rock masses. Rock Quality, Seismic Velocity, Attenuation, and Anisotropis organized into two basic parts: Chapters 1 through 9 in Part I pertain to civil engineering scales and... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


8.		Peace of Mind in Earthquake Country: How to Save Your Home, Business, and Life from Chronicle Books Price: $1.34 Customer Review: I was in the process of finishing my own book on the greatest earthquake in history - Valdivia, Chile - May 1960. I wanted to wrap up the discussion with some comments about the importance of earthquake engineering, structures and "anti-seismic" construction. This book is just what I needed.... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


9.		Seismic Design of Reinforced Concrete and Masonry Buildings from Wiley-Interscience Price: $186.10 Customer Review: As graduate student completing my Master's degree I thought this book is very useful for anyone who is doing research in the area of earthquake engineering in general. It goes in depth in many topics covering seismic design of structural components and systems of reinforced concrete and masonry. I... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


10.		International Handbook of Earthquake & Engineering Seismology, Part A, Volume 81A (International Geophysics) from Academic Press Price: $81.00 Customer Review: International Handbook of Earthquake & Engineering Seismology, vol. 81-A edited by William H.K. Lee, Hiroo Kanamori, Paul C. Jennings, and Carl Kisslinger, 2002,Academic Press, a division of Elsevier Science, vol. 81-A, 933 p. with 54 chapters, $150.00 one CD-ROM, with 2,000+... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


11.		Fundamental Concepts of Earthquake Engineering from CRC Press Price: $87.88 Customer Review: This is the best book so far to cover all the essential and state-of-the-art topics regarding earthquake engineering, such as earthquake mechanisms, basic soil dynamics, ground accelerations, Fourier spectrum (this is one of the best books to explain it), seismic hazard assessment, design response... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


12.		Recent Advances in Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering and Microzonation (Geotechnical, Geological, and Earthquake Engineering) from Springer Price: $87.75 Customer Review: I strongly recommend this book to every engineer studying on eartquake geotechnics. In detail, it focuses on the microzonation concept in deep. I reserve a special place for this book in my scientific feedback as well as Kramer's and Ishihara's valuable contributions.	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


13.		The L.A. Earthquake Sourcebook from Designmatters at Art Center College of Design Price: $6.39	Click here for more information


14.		Seismic Analysis of Structures from Wiley Price: $103.50	Click here for more information


15.		Advances in Performance-Based Earthquake Engineering (Geotechnical, Geological, and Earthquake Engineering) from Springer Price: $144.17	Click here for more information


16.		Fault-Zone Properties and Earthquake Rupture Dynamics, Volume 94 (International Geophysics) from Academic Press Price: $61.98	Click here for more information


17.		Seismic Design for Architects from Architectural Press Price: $47.83 Customer Review: While most technical books on earthquake-resistant building design are laden with formulas and arcane language useful only to structural engineers, it is good to find with Professor Charleson's book one that clearly states the concepts that lead to good design practices that contribute to building... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


18.	[no image]	Dynamic Analysis and Earthquake Resistant Design: Dams, Nuclear Power Plants, Electrical Transformers and Transmission Lines, Aboveground Storage Tanks and Piping from Taylor & Francis Price: $119.99	Click here for more information


19.		The Seismic Design Handbook from Springer Price: $200.94 Customer Review: ...among the best seismic design handbooks..section on concrete/steel design need to be covered with more graphics and details of reinforcement, connection detailing etc...	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


20.		Seismic Loads: Guide to the Seismic Load Provisions of ASCE 7-05 from ASCE Press (American Society of Civil Engineeers Price: $74.98	Click here for more information


21.		Dynamics of Structures: Theory and Applications to Earthquake Engineering (2nd Edition) from Prentice Hall Price: $123.87 Customer Review: This book is used for the undergraduate and graduate courses is seismic analysis. Some of the chapter sections on the more advanced topics are a bit hard to understand (sometimes there's a few steps in math skipped), but mostly it's b/c the topics are not that easy to explain on paper. I'm not... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information


22.	[no image]	Seismic Performace and Stimulation of Pile Foundations in Liquefued and Laterally Spreading Ground (Geotechnical Special Publication) from American Society of Civil Engineers Price: $86.32	Click here for more information


23.		Design for Earthquakes from Wiley Price: $82.98 Customer Review: This book is good for engineers and architects who are looking for basic concept of seismic design. It is easy to understand. It's not a book for preparation of CA seismic test for civil engineer. It does not have many complicated formulas but it has many illustrations, do and don't's in designs. I... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


24.		Earthquake Engineering Handbook (New Directions in Civil Engineering) from CRC Press Price: $64.00	Click here for more information


25.		Guidelines for the Seismic Evaluation and Upgrade of Water Transmission Facilities (Monograph (American Society of Civil Engineers. Technical Council on Lifeline Earthquake Engineering), No. 15.) from American Society of Civil Engineers Price: $42.67	Click here for more information


26.		Overcoming Barriers: Lifeline Seismic Improvement Programs (Monograph (American Society of Civil Engineers. Technical Council on Lifeline Earthquake Engineering), No. 13.) from American Society of Civil Engineers Price: $41.70 Customer Review: After our recent earthquake, many of us who are focused on lifelines have been scouring the literature for useful recommendations for loss reduction provisions. This is a key text. It evaluates the responses of seven large organizations in a "best methods" type of analysis to distill specific... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


27.		Earthquake Engineering: From Engineering Seismology to Performance-Based Engineering from CRC Press Price: $60.00 Customer Review: This book is a must have for any structural engineer who does any type of seismic design. It's basically the encyclopedia of earthquake engineering. Some chapters are much better than others, and there is some overlap. However, this is still the number one reference for a broad range of earthquake... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


28.		Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering Handbook from McGraw-Hill Professional	Click here for more information


29.		Fundamentals of Earthquake Engineering from Wiley Price: $83.93 Customer Review: If you plan to purchase this book, be sure to buy a magnifier (or microscope) at Amazon at the same time. The font sizes and symbols are extremely tiny in many of the figures and not too many human beings could see it (not exaggerated at all; for example: see Fig. 4.42 on page 250). The quality of... more info	Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information


30.		Seismic Design and Retrofit of Bridges from Wiley-Interscience Price: $153.90 Customer Review: Professor Priestley is No. 1 in the world when it comes to seismic design and retrofit of bridges. This book is a result of his extensive research conducted for Caltrans with Prof. Seible on bridge retrofit and their seismic behavior. The book is excellent reference for researchers and design... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

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