For your term paper you may consider any topic of your interest related to structural dynamics and earthquake engineering.  Please obtain my approval before you start working on it.

You may also select a topic from the follow list

SUGGESTED TOPICS

1.       Seismic Isolation for Bridge Structures

2.       Seismic Isolation for Buildings

3.       Traveling Wave Effects and Asynchronous Motion in Seismic Design of Long Span Bridges

4.       Seismic Analysis and Design of Buried Pipelines       

5.       Effects of Dynamic Soil-Structure Interaction on the Seismic Response of Structures

6.       Comparison of the SC Seismic Design Guidelines for Bridges with the AASHTO/LRFD provisions

7.       Inelastic dynamic analysis of RC bridges accounting for spatial variability of ground motion, site effects and soil-structure           interaction phenomena.

8.       Seismic Retrofit of Bridges

9.       Seismic Retrofit of Buildings

10.     Seismic Behavior of Power Substation Equipment and Installations

11.    Development of a 3-D Infinite Boundary Element for the Direct Time Domain Boundary Element Method.

12.     Through-the-Soil-Interaction of Adjacent Buildings.