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<p>Turkey, being located in a highly seismically active region, has experienced several devastating earthquakes throughout its history. The recent Mw 7.4 1999 Kocaeli and Mw 7.2 2011 Van earthquakes caused a considerable amount of economical losses and physical ...
Reference: Second European Conference on Earthquake Engineering and Seismology, Istanbul Aug. 25-29, 2014
Following the magnitude 7.1 Greendale earthquake on 4 September, 2010 and the magnitude 6.3 Lyttelton aftershock on 22 February, 2011 (which caused severe damage to the Christchurch CBD, the Eastern and Southern suburbs, the Port Hills and Lyttelton), the ...
Reference: NZSEE Annual Technical Conference & AGM, 13-15 April 2012, Christchurch
The Waikato Expressway is being constructed in a number of sections. Opus has been involved in the scheme assessment and specimen design stages for the Hamilton and Cambridge Bypass sections and is currently part of the alliance team constructing the Te Rapa ...
Reference: NZSEE Annual Technical Conference & AGM, 13-15 April 2012, Christchurch
We compare site-specific response spectra and hazard maps from the recently-updated national seismic hazard model (2010 NSHM) and predecessor NSHM of 2002. The new model incorporates over 200 new onshore and offshore fault sources, and utilises newly-developed ...
Reference: NZSEE Annual Technical Conference & AGM, 13-15 April 2012, Christchurch
After the two recent earthquakes in Christchurch (September 2010 and February 2011) a team of researchers organized by the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) was dispatched to the area to conduct a damage survey. The survey addressed a variety ...
Reference: NZSEE Annual Technical Conference & AGM, 13-15 April 2012, Christchurch
This chapter is a guide to the geotechnical designer who is responsible for providing geotechnical/seismicinput parameters to the structural engineers for their use in structural design of the transportation infrastructure (e.g., bridges, retaining walls, ...
Reference: WSDOT Geotechnical Design Manual M 46-03.01
Shaking from the January 12, 2010, Haiti earthquake (M 7.0) caused devastating structural damage and triggered many landslides that blocked roads, dammed rivers and streams, and threatened infrastructure in many parts of Haiti. The earthquake had a complex ...
Reference: Open-File Report 2011–1023
<p>This manual is intended to provide a technical resource for bridge and geotechnical engineers responsible for seismic analysis and design of transportation geotechnical features and structures such as soil and rock slopes, earth embankments, retaining structures ...
Reference: Federal Highway Administration, FHWA-NHI-11-032, 2011
 
<p>The primary intent of this guide is to explain the sources of nonstructural earthquake damag-e in simple tenns. and to provide information on effective methods of reducing the potential risks. The recommendations contained in this guide are intended to ...
Reference: Fourth Edition, FEMA E-74 / January 2011
Hydropower plants with underground powerhouse contain different types of underground structures namely: diversion tunnels, headrace and tailrace tunnels, access tunnels, caverns grouting and inspection galleries etc. As earthquake ground shaking affects all ...
Reference: The paper was presented at the First Asian and 9th Iranian Tunnelling Symposium, Tehran, Iran, November 1-2, 2011