International Urban Earthquake Engineering Center for Mitigating Seismic Mega Risk : Education : Syllabus : Earthquake Risk Reduction

Name of Lecture

Earthquake Risk Reduction

Semester

Autumn Semester

Credits

1-0-0

Opening year

Every Year

Lecturer

Prof. Tatsuo OHMACHI

Syllabus

[Scope and outline]

This course aims to broaden understanding and knowledge on earthquake engineering and disaster mitigation. In class, students are given a textbook comprising of 18 selected papers that cover the following areas.
General and Earthquake Preparedness

Earthquakes and Tsunamis in Near-field

Earthquake Ground Motion

Earthquake Response of Structures with a Focus on Dams

Every student is requested to choose at least one paper from the textbook, and give a presentation in turn followed by discussion.