- Introduction to seismology
- Examples
- Practical cases that include shallow and deep foundations
- Damaged structures due to liquefaction
- Introduction to soil dynamics
- Review of soil dynamics with basic concepts of structural dynamics
- Dynamic properties of soil characteristics
- Damping in soil
- Shear modulus and shear wave velocity
- Radiation damping
- Material non linearity of Soil
- Liquefaction
- Wave propagation
- Shear wave and compression wave velocities
- Wave passage effect
- Incoherence in ground motion
- Varying ground motion with depth
- Soil classification and behavior
- Soil classification
- Behavior of soil to seismic shear wave
- Site effects
- Introduction to the behaviour of structures to earthquake ground motion
- Dynamic properties of structures
- Stiffness properties
- Damping
- Mass
- Period
- For rigid base
- Flexible base
- Single degree of freedom systems
- Multi-degree of freedom systems
- Soil-structure interaction behavior of structures
- Inertia interaction
- Kinematic interaction
- Modelling in soil-structure interaction
- Modelling of foundation support
- Winkler type applied to shallow foundations
- Winkler type applied to deep foundations
- Modelling of radiation damping
- One Dimensional
- Two Dimensional
- Introduction to transmitting boundaries
- Example of seismic response of structure including soil-structure interaction
- Example of site effect analysis in 2D using radiating boundary
- Example of linear and non linear seismic response of structure including soil structure interaction
- Example of damage caused by earthquakes to embankments and structures
Civil, structural, and earthquake engineers, geotechnical engineers, structural engineers, professionals involved in design of structures and substructures, researchers.
Please note: all participants need to have basic knowledge in structural analysis, geotechnical engineering, and mathematics for engineers and fundamental physics
Dr. Mohammed Naimi, P.Eng., M.Sc.
Transport, Infrastructure and Buildings, SNC-Lavalin
Dr. Naimi is a professional engineer with expertise in earthquake engineering, structural dynamics, and soil-structure interaction. He holds a bachelor's degree, a master's of science, and a PhD. He taught and applied structural dynamics, earthquake engineering courses for 38 years. During his academic career, Dr. Naimi has contributed to the publication of scientific papers in earthquake engineering and has participated in the design of bridges, buildings, dams, and tunnels. In addition, he has trained many professional engineers in Canada and abroad. Currently, Dr. Naimi is an expert at SNC-Lavalin Inc. in Montreal and instructor for professional engineering courses at PTExpert (www.ptexpert.org). He is a voting member for the ACI (American Concrete Institute) committee of performance based seismic design of bridges and member of the evaluation group of NSERC (Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada).
