C&EE 225

Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering

Civil and Environmental Engineering · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)

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Analysis of earthquake-induced ground failure, including soil liquefaction, cyclic softening of clays, seismic compression, surface fault rupture, and seismic slope stability. Ground response effects on earthquake ground motions. Soil-structure interaction, including inertial and kinematic interaction and foundation deformations under seismic loading.

Letter grading.

When it runs

Spring 2026
Spring 2027

Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.

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Requisites

Official UCLA wording
Requisites: courses 220, 245 (may be taken concurrently).

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C&EE 220
C&EE 245may be taken concurrently

Requires

Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.

C&EE 225

C&EE 220Advanced Soil Mechanics
- C&EE 120Principles of Soil Mechanics
  - C&EE 108Introduction to Mechanics of Deformable Solids4 more beneath
C&EE 245Earthquake Ground Motion Characterization
- C&EE 246Structural Response to Ground Motions
  - C&EE 141

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