Modeling of cyclic mobility and associated lateral ground deformations for earthquake engineering applications

This chapter is concerned with the numerical modeling techniques used for the time-domain dynamic analysis of the seismic response of soil-structure systems. Attention is focused on the important aspects of soil cyclic mobility and its effects on lateral ground deformations. Incremental plasticity numerical constitutive models for cyclic loading are employed. A solid-fluid coupled finite element (FE) formulation for liquefaction scenarios is also discussed.