Resilient Cities and Infrastructure in Earthquake Zones
Sustainable Solutions
- 1st Edition - June 1, 2026
- Latest edition
- Editors: Abdullah Ansari, Zhongkai Huang, Ayed E. Alluqmani
- Language: English
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Resilient Cities and Infrastructures in Earthquake Zones: Sustainable Solutions explores strategies and technologies to enhance the resilience of infrastructure in earthquake-prone areas, focusing on innovative approaches to mitigate seismic risks. It assesses sustainable urban planning practices that incorporate seismic hazard, vulnerability, and risk evaluations, ensuring safety and long-term sustainability. Additionally, it examines the critical role of community engagement in fostering disaster-resilient urban environments. The chapters offer actionable insights and best practices that align with the UN SDGs, serving as a comprehensive resource for policymakers, urban planners, engineers and industry professionals. By spotlighting advanced materials, engineering solutions, and modern construction strategies, the book provides guidance on promoting seismic resilience while prioritizing community safety
- Resilient Cities and Infrastructures in Earthquake Zones: Sustainable Solutions provides readers with in-depth insights into the latest strategies and technologies that enhance the resilience of infrastructure in earthquake-prone regions. By exploring innovative methods to mitigate seismic risks, readers will gain valuable knowledge on how to design and construct buildings, roads, tunnels, and bridges that can withstand major seismic events, ensuring the safety and longevity of critical infrastructure
- Emphasizes, from an engineering perspective, sustainable urban planning, offering practical guidance on how to integrate seismic hazard, vulnerability, and risk assessments into urban development practices
- Resilient Cities and Infrastructures in Earthquake Zones: Sustainable Solutions aligns with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals or SDGs, providing readers with strategies that contribute to global efforts for resilient infrastructure and sustainable cities. By incorporating cutting-edge information, engineering solutions, and modern construction strategies, the book equips readers with the tools to innovate while ensuring the protection of communities and the environment
Engineers, urban planners, researchers, industry professionals and policymakers involved in infrastructure development, seismic risk assessment, and sustainable urban planning
Preface
1. Seismic Hazards and Historical Earthquake Events: A Global to Local Perspective
2. Fundamentals of Liquefaction: A Seismic Hazard Perspective for Sustainable Infrastructure
3. Application of AI and InSAR for Liquefaction Assessment Towards Sustainable Seismic Design
4. Seismic Hazards and Infrastructure Resilience: Challenges and Strategies
5. Innovative Engineering for Earthquake-Resistant Infrastructure
6. Innovative Aboveground and Underground Earthquake Resistant Structures
7. From Risk To Resilience: A Framework For Enhancing Seismic Preparedness In Cities
8. Structural Efficiency And Material Economics In Healthcare Buildings: A Comparison Of Performance-Based And Code-Driven Design Approaches
9. Building Resilient Cities: A Review of How AI and Physics-Based Models Work Together to Predict and Mitigate Earthquake Risks
10. Seismic Resilience Assessment and Enhancement Methods of Transportation System
11. AI-Based Simulation of Seismic Resilience in Underground Space Technologies
12. Seismic Vulnerability and Strengthening of Dry-Stone Buildings in Northern India
13. Safeguarding Cultural Legacy: Seismic Risk and Assessment of Heritage Structures in Oman
14. Reassessing Machine-Induced Vibration Criteria for Pile Foundations in Seismic-Resilient Infrastructure
15. Seismic Vulnerability Analysis Using Ambient Noise Measurement
16. Earthquake Resilient Infrastructure In Himalayan Region - A Need Or A Luxury
17. Investigation Of Road-Cut Failures And Future Risk Along The Ramban-Banihal National Highway, Jammu and Kashmir (India)
18. Identification Of Probable Areas Of Cascading Or Compounding Events Using Multi-Hazard Approach In Jammu Division, Jammu & Kashmir, India
19. Bridging The Gap Between Sustainable Growth And Resilient Infrastructure In The Face Of Socio Economic Disparities
20. Integrating Sustainability And Resilience: Policy Frameworks For Urban Infrastructure Development
21. Multicriteria Risk Assessment Framework for Enhancing Earthquake Preparedness for Urban Environment (M-RAFEEQ)
22. Sustainable Ground Improvement for Resilient Infrastructure: Application of Sand Compaction Piles in Seismic Zones
23. Geological Record And Potential Impact Of Volcano-Mechanic Events On Built Environment In The Saudi Harrats
24. Building Sustainability and Seismic Resilience in GCC Projects
25. Future Directions in Earthquake-Resilient Urban Development
1. Seismic Hazards and Historical Earthquake Events: A Global to Local Perspective
2. Fundamentals of Liquefaction: A Seismic Hazard Perspective for Sustainable Infrastructure
3. Application of AI and InSAR for Liquefaction Assessment Towards Sustainable Seismic Design
4. Seismic Hazards and Infrastructure Resilience: Challenges and Strategies
5. Innovative Engineering for Earthquake-Resistant Infrastructure
6. Innovative Aboveground and Underground Earthquake Resistant Structures
7. From Risk To Resilience: A Framework For Enhancing Seismic Preparedness In Cities
8. Structural Efficiency And Material Economics In Healthcare Buildings: A Comparison Of Performance-Based And Code-Driven Design Approaches
9. Building Resilient Cities: A Review of How AI and Physics-Based Models Work Together to Predict and Mitigate Earthquake Risks
10. Seismic Resilience Assessment and Enhancement Methods of Transportation System
11. AI-Based Simulation of Seismic Resilience in Underground Space Technologies
12. Seismic Vulnerability and Strengthening of Dry-Stone Buildings in Northern India
13. Safeguarding Cultural Legacy: Seismic Risk and Assessment of Heritage Structures in Oman
14. Reassessing Machine-Induced Vibration Criteria for Pile Foundations in Seismic-Resilient Infrastructure
15. Seismic Vulnerability Analysis Using Ambient Noise Measurement
16. Earthquake Resilient Infrastructure In Himalayan Region - A Need Or A Luxury
17. Investigation Of Road-Cut Failures And Future Risk Along The Ramban-Banihal National Highway, Jammu and Kashmir (India)
18. Identification Of Probable Areas Of Cascading Or Compounding Events Using Multi-Hazard Approach In Jammu Division, Jammu & Kashmir, India
19. Bridging The Gap Between Sustainable Growth And Resilient Infrastructure In The Face Of Socio Economic Disparities
20. Integrating Sustainability And Resilience: Policy Frameworks For Urban Infrastructure Development
21. Multicriteria Risk Assessment Framework for Enhancing Earthquake Preparedness for Urban Environment (M-RAFEEQ)
22. Sustainable Ground Improvement for Resilient Infrastructure: Application of Sand Compaction Piles in Seismic Zones
23. Geological Record And Potential Impact Of Volcano-Mechanic Events On Built Environment In The Saudi Harrats
24. Building Sustainability and Seismic Resilience in GCC Projects
25. Future Directions in Earthquake-Resilient Urban Development
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: June 1, 2026
- Language: English
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Abdullah Ansari
Dr. Abdullah Ansari is a Research Professor at Sultan Qaboos University (Oman) and specializes in research on geotechnical earthquake engineering, infrastructure resilience, and sustainable tunnel design. His expertise spans seismic risk analysis, geophysical site exploration, and the application of machine learning and artificial intelligence to enhance infrastructure resilience. He has been involved in the seismic risk assessments for the Al-Sharqiyah Tunnel and robustness evaluations of Muscat's coastal highway network. In addition he has worked on seismic safety evaluations of nuclear power plants in South Korea, where he contributed to the development of advanced seismic hazard mitigation strategies
Affiliations and expertise
Research Professor, Sultan Qaboos University, OmanZH
Zhongkai Huang
Dr. Zhongkai Huang is currently serving as an assistant professor at the Department of Geotechnical Engineering, Tongji University, China. His research interest is in using advanced techniques to conduct risk and resilience assessment and control of geotechnical infrastructure. Utilizing recent advances in computational geotechnical engineering, he has undertakn research on the use of multi-disciplinary techniques to solve practical risk and resilience assessment of underground structures and tunnels problems
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Professor, Department of Geotechnical Engineering, Tongji University, ChinaAA
Ayed E. Alluqmani
Professor Ayed Eid specializes in civil and structural engineering. He earned his MSc in Structural and Foundation Engineering from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK, and his PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Strathclyde University, Glasgow, UK. Currently a Full Professor at the Islamic University of Madinah (IUM), Saudi Arabia, he has extensive experience as an engineer, designer, site supervisor, and academic.
His research covers concrete and steel structures, earthquake engineering, soil-structure interaction, and solid waste managementAffiliations and expertise
Islamic University of Madinah, Saudi Arabia