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Publications tagged with [strong ground motion]

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<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 ...
Reference: Second European Conference on Earthquake Engineering and Seismology, Istanbul Aug. 25-29, 2014
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 ...
Filed under: Rock Mechanics -  Rock Falls
Reference: 2nd INQUA-IGCP-567 International Workshop on Active Tectonics, Earthquake Geology, Archaeology and Engineering, Corinth, Greece (2011)
The characterisation of strong ground motion is a crucial element of analyses of seismic risk for isolated structures and lifeline networks. Many measures of the strength of ground motion (intensity measures) have been developed. Each intensity measure may ...
Reference: Systemic Seismic Vulnerability and Risk Analysis for Buildings, Lifeline Networks and Infrastructures Safety Gain Acronym: SYNER-G Project N°: 244061 Call N°: FP7-ENV-2009-1 Project start: 01 November 2009 Duration: 36 months
<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 ...
Reference: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Engineering Lessons Learned from the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, March 1-4, 2012, Tokyo, Japan
<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 ...
Reference: Scientific Research and Essays Vol. 5(16), pp. 2257-2274, 18 August, 2010
In this paper is analysed a procedure to generate physicallyconsistent earthquake-rupture models that should help make such simulations more accurate.
Reference: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, Vol. 94, No. 6, pp. 2051–2063, December 2004
<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 ...
Reference: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, Vol. 94, No. 6, pp. 2090–2109, December 2004
In this article is simulated near-fault strong ground motion using dynamic source models.
Reference: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, Vol. 93, No. 1, pp. 301-313, February 2003
<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 ...
Reference: Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine
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 ...
Reference: Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering, 2001