The short course "Dynamic Soil-Structure Interaction" took place in Pavia on 9-13 May 2011. The objective of this short course was to provide graduate students —both at MS and PhD levels— and practicing engineers with the fundamental concepts and theory of dynamic soil-structure interaction (SSI), with special focus on the numerical tools currently available to model such problems in earthquake engineering practice. Although the course touched upon all aspects of the theory and the numerical modeling for seismic problems, emphasis was given on the basic concepts, including elements of vibration theory, wave propagation in the ground and their interaction with foundations and structures, earthquake source mechanisms, wave amplification in soft soil deposits and the interaction of small and large scale foundations and buildings erected on compliant soil. Both linear and non linear aspects of modeling were covered. The course included both theoretical lectures and hands-on solutions by the attendees of practical problems obtained via simple Matlab programs.
The course was taught by Eduardo Kausel, a senior Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA, and a faculty member at Rose School.
Additional information on the short course can be found here.