<p>The pounding between adjacent buildings can cause both architectural and structural damages. The paper presents some aspects related to the Vrancea seismic motions pattern, a review of observed damages after a strong earthquake due to pounding of buildings ...

A Roman mausoleum located in the ancient city of Pınara, southwest Turkey, shows clear signs of damages due to dynamic loading. Considering the seismotectonic potential of the area, earthquake ground motions are a possible cause of the damages. However, the ...

<p>Liquefaction in the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake will provide important lessons for the geotechnical profession regarding the seismic performance of a wide range of geotechnical and constructed facilities affected by liquefaction. This paper examines ...

<p>The objective of a site response analysis is to estimate the ground shaking intensity during an earthquake. The Miyaneh city and its suburban areas are located in the northwest of Iran in AzarbayjanSharghi province. This area is prone to high seismic risk ...

In this paper is analysed a procedure to generate physicallyconsistent earthquake-rupture models that should help make such simulations more accurate.

<p>This work presents a statistical study on the effect of soil layers with uncertain properties on ground-motion intensity at the soil surface. Surface motion is obtained by applying multiple real rock earthquake records at the base of different characterizations ...

In this article is simulated near-fault strong ground motion using dynamic source models.

<p>This thesis presents updated relations for horizontal and vertical near-field strong-motion characteristicsincluding peak ground acceleration and spectral acceleration, examines the assessment of permanent ground displacements in the near field due to faulting ...

The analysis in this paper concludes that permanent displacements of the ground andof structures in the near-field can be calculated provided all six components of strong motion(three translations and three rotations) have been recorded, and the records are ...

The seismic safety of 260 m high rock-fill dam in narrow and curved valley, located in seismically active area subjected to Maximum Credeble Earthquake (MCE) with Peak Ground Acceleration (PGA) 0.5g has been investigated. A sequential nonlinear static and ...