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GEOTECHNICAL EARTHQUAKE ENGINEERING HANDBOOK Robert W. Day
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Dedicated with love to my wife, Deborah
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I am grateful for the contributions of the many people who helped make this book. Special thanks are due to the International Conference of Building Officials, who sponsored the author’s work. I would also like to thank the following individuals for their contributions: ●
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Professor Nelson, who provided Fig. 3.46 and additional data concerning the Turnagain Heights landslide. Thomas Blake, who provided assistance in the use and understanding of his EQSEARCH, EQFAULT, and FRISKSP computer programs. Professor Robert Ratay, who reviewed the proposed content of the book and provided many helpful suggestions during its initial preparation. Professor Charles C. Ladd, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who reviewed the draft of the author’s book titled Geotechnical and Foundation Engineering: Design and Construction, portions of which have been reproduced in this book.
I am also indebted to Gregory Axten, president of American Geotechnical, for his support and encouragement during the development of the book. I would also like to thank Tom Marsh for his invaluable assistance during the preparation of the book, Rick Walsh for his help with the engineering analyses, and Eric Lind for supplying some of the deep foundation photographs. Tables and figures taken from other sources are acknowledged where they occur in the text. Finally, I wish to thank Larry Hager, Penny Linskey, Sherri Souffrance, and others on the McGraw-Hill editorial staff, who made this book possible and refined my rough draft into this finished product.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR ROBERT W. DAY is a leading geotechnical engineer and the Chief Engineer at American Geotechnical in San Diego, California. The author of over 200 published technical papers and four textbooks (Forensic Geotechnical and Foundation Engineering, Geotechnical and Foundation Engineering: Design and Construction, Geotechnical Engineer’s Portable Handbook, and Soil Testing Manual), he serves on advisory committees for several professional associations, including ASCE, ASTM, and NCEES. He holds four college degrees: two from Villanova University (bachelor’s and master’s degrees majoring in structural engineering), and two from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology [master’s and the Civil Engineer degree (highest degree) majoring in geotechnical engineering]. He is also a registered civil engineer in several states and a registered geotechnical engineer in California.
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