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Earthquake Engineering

Earthquake engineering is defined as the scientific branch devoted to the protection of society from earthquake hazards. More specifically earthquake engineering is defined as the behavior study of structures and geostructures during and after an earthquake. Geotechpedia provides a plethora of papers concerning earthquake engineering.

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NUCLEAR POWER PLANT DESIGN AND SEISMIC SAFETY CONSIDERATIONS (2012)
The seismic design criteria applied to siting commercial nuclear power plants operating in the United States received increased attention following the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station. ...
Reference: CRS Report for Congress, Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress
OBSERVED GROUND MOTIONS IN THE 4 SEPTEMBER 2010 DARFIELD AND 22 FEBRUARY 2011 CHRISTCHURCH EARTHQUAKES (2012)
This paper provides an overview of the salient aspects of the dense array of ground motions observed in the 4 September 2010 Darfield and 22 February 2011 Christchurch earthquakes. Particular attention is given to inferred physical reasons for the observed ...
Reference: NZSEE Annual Technical Conference & AGM, 13-15 April 2012, Christchurch
ON THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE HORIZONTAL SEA-BED DISPLACEMENTS INTO THE TSUNAMI GENERATION PROCESS (2012)
The main reason for the generation of tsunamis is the deformation of the bottom of the ocean caused by an underwater earthquake. Usually, only the vertical bottommotion is taken into account while the horizontal co-seismic displacements are neglected in the ...
Reference: arXiv:1011.1741v3 [physics.class-ph] 13 Feb 2012
PERFORMANCE BASED DESIGN, WOULD IT HAVE MADE A DIFFERENCE IN CHRISTCHURCH? (2012)
This paper compares the historical and current approaches to building design in New Zealand with the performance based design approaches currently used in the United States under the framework of ASCE 41. Examples of building performance during the recent ...
Reference: NZSEE Annual Technical Conference & AGM, 13-15 April 2012, Christchurch
PRACTICES AND PROCEDURES FOR SITE-SPECIFIC EVALUATIONS OF EARTHQUAKE GROUND MOTIONS (2012)
This report identifies and describes current practice and available methods for evaluating the influence of local ground conditions on earthquake design ground motions on a site-specific basis
Reference: NCHRP Synthesis 428, TRB
PRE AND POST-EARTHQUAKE DYNAMIC ANALYSIS OF AN RC BUILDING INCLUDING SOIL-STRUCTURE INTERACTION (2012)
This paper presents a study of the dynamic analysis of a building before and after devastating earthquakes using system identification. The eight storey reinforced concrete building is instrumented with 10 accelerometers. The time domain N4SID system identification ...
Reference: NZSEE Annual Technical Conference & AGM, 13-15 April 2012, Christchurch
PROGRESSIVE MAINSHOCK-AFTERSHOCK DAMAGE IN CHRISTCHURCH, NEW ZEALAND (2012)
Aftershocks following an earthquake can be damaging to the built environment, as observed in New Zealand during 2010 and 2011. In this paper, the aftershock sequence is discussed and a soil-foundation-structure numerical model is introduced. The numerical ...
Reference: NZSEE Annual Technical Conference & AGM, 13-15 April 2012, Christchurch
SEISMIC DESIGN OF GEOSYNTHETIC-REINFORCED SOIL BRIDGE ABUTMENTS WITH MODULAR BLOCK FACING (2012)
<p>A geosynthetic-reinforced soil (GRS) mass is formed by placing closely-spaced layers of polymeric geosynthetic reinforcement in a soil mass during soil placement. The reinforcement in a GRS mass serves primarily to improve engineering properties of soil. ...
Reference: Contractor’s Final Report for NCHRP Project 12-59 (01) Submitted January 2012 NCHRP Web-Only Document 187
SEISMIC OBSERVATIONS ON PILED RAFT FOUNDATION WITH GROUND IMPROVEMENT SUPPORTING A BASE-ISOLATED BUILDING (2012)
<p>The purpose of this study is to clarify the seismic performance of piled raft foundations with ground improvement based on seismic observation records. The monitored building, which is a twelve-story base-isolated building, is located on loose silty sand ...
Reference: 15 WCEE, LISBOA 2012
SHORT REVIEW ON LIQUEFACTION SUSCEPTIBILITY (2012)
<p>This paper reviews the previous related research on liquefaction susceptibility to provide critical literature recommendations on liquefaction susceptibility assessment. The developments of liquecation susceptibility evaluation in last 40 decades are included. ...
Reference: International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA), Vol. 2, Issue 3, May-Jun 2012, pp.2115-2119