Geotechnics for Catastrophic Flooding Events

Geotechnics for Catastrophic Flooding Events presents the keynote lectures (book, 264 pages) and keynote lectures and general papers (CD-ROM, 608 pages) presented at the Fourth International ISSMGEConference on Geotechnical Engineering for Disaster Mitigation and Rehabilitation (4th GEDMAR, Kyoto, Japan, 16-18 September 2014). The contributions discuss hurricane, rainstorm and storm surge induced riverine and coastal flooding events, such as the 2004 Sumatra earthquake in Indonesia, the 2005 Hurricane Katrina disaster in New Orleans, USA, Typhoon Morakot, which devastated parts of Taiwan in 2009 and the 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster in Eastern Japan, when combined failure mechanisms, multiple hazards, and rare events with huge consequences occurred.

The book is divided into the following sections:
? Keynote lectures
? Liquefaction experiment and analysis project (LEAP)
? Guidelines and recommendations for local governments to mitigate flooding disasters
? Materials and modeling
? Natural hazards
? Disaster mitigation and rehabilitation

Geotechnics for Catastrophic Flooding Events will be of interest to researchers, academics, industry practitioners and other professional involved in earthquake geotechnical engineering, foundation engineering, and earthquake engineering and structural dynamics.

Preface Keynote Lectures Combined failure mechanism of breakwaters and buildings subject to Tsunami during 2011 East Japan earthquake S. Iai Performance-based assessment of liquefaction hazards S.L. Kramer, Y.-M. Huang & M.W. Greenfield Progresses on disaster mitigation and rehabilitation technologies for embankment dam in China H.L. Liu Development of seismic risk microzonation maps of Jakarta city M. Irsyam, D. Hutabarat, M. Asrurifak, I. Imran, S.Widiyantoro, Hendriyawan, I. Sadisun, B. Hutapea, T. Afriansyah, H. Pindratno, A. Firmanti, M. Ridwan, S.W. Haridjono & R. Pandhu Use of biogeotechnologies for disaster mitigation J. Chu, V. Ivanov, J. He & M. Naeimi Damage to river levees by the 2011 Off the Pacific Coast Tohoku earthquake and prediction of liquefaction in levees M. Okamura & S. Hayashi Geoenvironmental issues for the recovery from the 2011 East Japan earthquake and tsunami T. Katsumi, T. Inui, A. Takai, K. Endo, H. Sakanakura, H. Imanishi, M. Kazama, M. Nakashima, M. Okawara, Y. Otsuka, H. Sakamoto, H. Suzuki &T. Yasutaka Fukushima Accident: What happened and lessons learned S. Muto Workshop on liquefaction experiment and analysis project (LEAP) Liquefaction Experiment and Analysis Projects (LEAP) through a generalized scaling relationship S. Iai Proposed outline for LEAP verification and validation processes B.L. Kutter, M.T. Manzari, M. Zeghal, Y.G. Zhou & R.J. Armstrong LEAP projects: Concept and challenges M.T. Manzari, B.L. Kutter, M. Zeghal, S. Iai, T. Tobita, S.P.G. Madabhushi, S.K. Haigh, L. Mejia, D.A. Gutierrez, R.J. Armstrong, M.K. Sharp, Y.M. Chen &Y.G. Zhou LEAP: Selected data for class C calibrations and class A validations M. Zeghal, M.T. Manzari, B.L. Kutter & T. Abdoun Benchmark centrifuge tests and analyses of liquefaction-induced lateral spreading during earthquake T. Tobita, M.T. Manzari, O. Ozutsumi, K. Ueda, R. Uzuoka & S. Iai Workshop on guidelines and recommendations for local governments to mitigate flooding disasters Preparing 'Guidelines and Recommendations' for disaster mitigation - what is the lesson from recent flood and tsunami K. Ichii Geotechnical lesson and application on earth bank for tsunami disaster prevention K. Tokida On the failure mechanisms of different levee designs under extreme rainfall event - case studies in Southern Taiwan W.-C. Huang, R.-K. Chen & M.-C.Weng Impact of the recent earthquake and tsunami on Chilean port F. Caselli, M. Beale & M. Reyes Numerical analysis of Darcy/Navier-Stokes coupled flows and seepage-induced erosion of soils K. Fujisawa Effect of incidence angle of current and consolidation pressure on the hydraulic resistance capacity of clayey soil Y.S. Kim, S.H. Jeong, T.M. Do, C. Lee & K.O. Kang Evaluation of liquefaction susceptibility of soils using DynamicWeight Sounding test S. Sawada Earthquake and tsunami damage estimation for port-BCP Y. Akakura, K. Ono & K. Ichii Reliability on the stability of long continuous earth-structures T. Hara, M. Nonoyama, Y. Otake & Y. Honjo Panel Discussions How to meet catastrophic flooding events? Prelude to Panel Discussion: How to meet catastrophic events W.D.L. Finn Prelude to Panel Discussion: How to meet catastrophic events M.J. Pender Contribution to Panel Discussion: How to meet catastrophic events H. Ohta Author index