Includes bibliographic references (pages 399-431) and index.

Intro; Contents; Preface to Third Edition; Preface to Second Edition; Preface; Part I. Preliminaries; 1. Solid Continuum Mechanics; 1.1 Spring Problem; 1.2 Pole Problem; 1.3 Continuum Problem; 2. Finite Element Method; 2.1 Overview of FEM; 2.2 Discretization of Function; 2.3 Formulation of FEM; 2.4 Major Numerical Techniques Used in FEM; 2.4.1 Shape function; 2.4.2 Isoparametric element; 2.4.3 Gauss integral; 2.5 Algorithm Used to Solve Matrix Equation of FEM; 2.5.1 Direct solvers; 2.5.2 Iterative solvers; 2.5.3 Algorithms used to solve a non-linear equation; 3. Stochastic Modeling.
3.1 Formulation of Stochastic Variational Problem; 3.2 Analysis Methods of Stochastic Variational Problem; 3.2.1 Bounding medium analysis; 3.2.2 Spectral method; Part II. Strong Ground Motion; 4. The Wave Equation for Solids; 4.1 Basics of Wave Equation for Solids; 4.2 Analytic Solutions of Particular Wave Problems; 4.2.1 Out-of-plane shear wave; 4.2.2 In-plane wave; 4.2.3 Plane wave in three-dimensional setting; 4.3 Numerical Analysis of Wave Equation; 4.3.1 Algorithms used for time integration; 4.3.2 Stability of time integration; 5. Analysis of Strong Ground Motion.
5.1 Stochastic Modeling of Underground Structures; 5.2 Bounding Medium Theory; 5.3 Singular Perturbation Expansion; 5.4 Formulation of Macro-Micro Analysis Method; 5.5 Verification of Macro-Micro Analysis Method; 5.5.1 Validation of bounding medium theory; 5.5.2 Validation of singular perturbation expansion; 5.5.3 Validation of macro-micro analysis method; 6. Simulation of Strong Ground Motion; 6.1 Summary of Macro-Micro Analysis Method; 6.2 VFEM for Macro-Analysis and Micro-Analysis; 6.2.1 VFEM; 6.2.2 VFEM for macro-analysis; 6.2.3 VFEM for micro-analysis.
6.2.4 Link from macro-analysis to micro-analysis; 6.3 Simulation of Actual Earthquakes; 6.3.1 Modeling; 6.3.2 Comparison of synthesized waveform with observed waveform; 6.3.3 Distribution of simulated strong ground motion; 6.3.4 The comparison of three-dimensional analysis and one-dimensional analysis; Part III. Faulting; 7. Elasto-Plasticity and Fracture Mechanics; 7.1 Numerical Analysis of Failure; 7.2 Elasto-Plasticity; 7.3 Fracture Mechanics; 8. Analysis of Faulting; 8.1 NL-SSFEM; 8.1.1 SSFEM; 8.1.2 NL-SSFEM; 8.1.3 Bounding medium approximation; 8.1.4 Formulation of NL-SSFEM.
8.2 Numerical Algorithms of NL-SSFEM; 8.2.1 Matrix Jacobi method; 8.2.2 Standardized KL expansion; 8.2.3 Numerical perturbation during analysis of stochastic model; 8.3 Verification of NL-SSFEM Simulation; 8.4 Example of Fault Simulation of NL-SSFEM; 9. Simulation of Faulting; 9.1 Problem Setting for Fault Simulation; 9.1.1 Input data; 9.1.2 Output results; 9.2 Reproduction of Model Experiments; 9.2.1 Simulation of two-dimensional model experiment; 9.2.2 Simulation of three-dimensional model experiment; 9.3 Simulation of Actual Faults; 9.3.1 Simulation of the Nojima Fault.
9.3.2 Parametric study of stochastic parameters.
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"This book provides rigorous foundations of applying modern computational mechanics to earthquake engineering. The scope covers the numerical analysis of earthquake wave propagation processes and the faulting processes, and also presents the most advanced numerical simulations of earthquake hazards and disasters that can take place in an urban area. Two new chapters included are advanced topics on high performance computing and for constructing an analysis model. This is the first book in earthquake engineering that explains the application of modern numerical computation (which includes high performance computing) to various engineering seismology problems."--Publisher's website.