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This book is a comprehensive text on earthquake engineering of reinforced concrete buildings and masonry buildings. Summary Of The Book Owing to the recent surge in the incidence of earthquakes, it is becoming imperative for civil engineering students to understand the fundamentals of designing earthquake resistant buildings. The book provides a wide-ranging overview of these concepts which is suitable for an undergraduate as well as a postgraduate course in earthquake engineering. The book begins by introducing the context of designing earthquake resistant buildings by discussing engineering seismology, the seismic zoning map of India, and the various strong motion studies carried out in India. Issues related to structural dynamics are discussed next, including the theory of seismic pickups, numerical evaluation of dynamic response, and response spectra. It goes on to explain the key concepts behind the earthquake resistant design (ERD) of reinforced concrete buildings, followed by a discussion on their seismic analysis and modelling. The next two sections present the ERD of reinforced concrete buildings and of masonry buildings. The concluding section is on seismic evaluation and retrofitting of both these buildings types. About The Authors Pankaj Agarwal is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Earthquake Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee. Some of the books written by Pankaj Agarwal are Principles of Software Project Management, Algorithms: Analysis, Design, Implementation, and Information Security & Cyber Law. He did his B.Tech. in Civil Engineering from G.B. Pant University of Agriculture & Technology in 1989. He went on to do his M.E. and Ph.D. in Earthquake Engineering from the University of Roorkee. He is a Life Member of the Indian Society of Earthquake Technology. Manish Shrikhande is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Earthquake Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee. After completing his M.E. in Earthquake Engineering from the University of Roorkee in 1992, he did his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from IIT, Kanpur. He went on to join IIT, Roorkee, as a lecturer and has remained with the institute ever since. He is also the co-editor of the ISET Journal Of Earthquake Technology of the Indian Society of Earthquake Technology. He received the Young Engineer Award by Indian National Academy of Engineering in 2002.