Introduction to Engineering Seismology by Prof. Anbazhagan P | IISc Bangalore

NPTEL is offering online course for undergraduate/ postgraduate students in Introduction to Engineering Seismology.

About the course:

• Introduction to Engineering Seismology is general course for anyone interested to know about earthquake.
• Initial part of study discusses about different seismic hazard, global seismicity and risk.
• Further gives theory behind earthquake, plate tectonics and seismic courses and fault.
• Theory of wave propagation and different types of earthquakes can also discuss in the course.
• Course also covers quantification of earthquake size: Concept of Intensity and Magnitude; different earthquake scales.

Course Layout:

• Week 1: Introduction to earthquake hazards- Global seismicity and Seismic risk. History of Engineering Seismology and Earthquake types
• Week 2: Elastic Rebound Theory; Earthquake sources; Plate tectonics, and Plate Boundaries: Continental Drift
• Week 3: Theory of Wave Propagation Seismic wave propagation, Types of seismic waves, Wave chanters and Shadow zones
• Week 4: Concept of Earthquake Measurement, Seismic Intensity and Magnitudes Scales. Past earthquake Energy and Comparable Explosive tests
• Week 5: Earthquake Instruments, Sensors and Data Loggers, Mechanical and Digital sensors; Seismic Station
• Week 6: Interpretation of Seismic Records: Identification of made events and natural earthquake; Time and frequency domain characteristic of ground motion
• Week 7: Regional Seismicity, Earthquakes in India and Most important Global Earthquakes; Concept of Seismic Zonation and Methodology for Seismic microzonation
• Week 8: Predicative Models in Earthquake Engineering- Attenuation Relation; Intensity, Duration and Ground Motion Predictive Relation
• Week 9: Earthquake Catalog preparation, Source Map preparation; Homogenization and Declustering of earthquake data and preparation of Seismotectonic maps
• Week 10: Seismic Hazard Parameters: a and B values, Recurrence relations and Maximum magnitude: Region Specific Approach for estimation Parameters and Selection of predictive equations
• Week 11: Seismic Hazard Analysis: Deterministic and Probabilistic Methods; Rupture based approach
• Week 12: Seismic Hazard Analysis Case studies and Worked examples

Duration: 12 weeks

Enrollment Ends: September 21, 2020

For more details, please visit: https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/noc20_ce61/preview