Engineering Catastrophes:

This book demonstrates the latest techniques and advances in seismic wave analysis from a theoretical approach, data acquisition and interpretation, to analyses and numerical simulations, as well as research applications. The major topics in this book cover aspects on seismic wave propagation, characteristics of their velocities and attenuation, deformation process of the Earth's medium, seismic source process and tectonic dynamics with relating observations, as well as propagation modeling of seismic waves.

The guideline of the book is precisely the mathematical model of mechanics. Starting from the particle (the simplest problem) and finishing with the study of dynamical systems (including bifurcation, catastrophes and chaos), the book covers a wide number of problems (classical or new ones).