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Mehta gujarat state disaster management authority government of gujarat. This is a nominally a 18 month programme involving courses 6 months and thesis 1 year. Determining ground motions especially as to effects of local site conditions liquefaction and liquefactionrelated evaluations settlements, lateral spreading movements, etc. Consortium of universities for research in earthquake engineering curee 1998 1 cover photo. Geotechnical investigations for earthquake engineering. Solutions manual for geotechnical earthquake engineering.
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