Ivanov D. Seismic resistant design and technology

CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 2016, 202 p., ISBN: 9781498705370, 1498705375, 978-1-4987-0536-3Seismic waves are nonlinear bulk and surface elastic waves that propagate in the nonlinear, dissipative, dispersive, and heterogeneous medium of the Earth’s body and on its surface. Earthquakes cause deaths and destructions all around the world. The main strategy for fi ghting the destructive seismic power has been designing reinforced building constructions and hoping that they will be able to withstand the tremor. Enormous progress has been made in this fi eld. However earthquakes continue to be a big problem because of their unpredictability and diverse characteristics of the seismic waves involved. Especially destructive are some types of surface seismic waves.In this book a different strategy for fi ghting the destructive power of earthquakes is discussed — developing seismic shields of metamaterials around cities that are able to defl ect or dissipate the power of on-coming seismic waves.