A mechanism of sand boil development during liquefaction is briefly discussed. In particular, the impact of sand boils as potential excess pore-pressure relief mechanisms is investigated within a computational solid-fluid fully coupled effective-stress framework ...

This paper briefly describes the main features of earthquake resistance of large dams in China. Some typical outcomes of recent design and research activities developed along with the progress of dam construction in China are introduced.

This study aims at clarifying the characteristics of the effects of vertical ground motions upon earthquake responses of steel frames. The inelastic response of a multi-story frame is characterized mainly by the restoring force of the frame's lower parts. ...

The San Andreas fault in California has long been thought to be far weaker than given by the Anderson-Byerlee state because of the lack of a heat-flow anomaly adjacent to the fault as predicted by a steady-state conductive model of frictional heating. Here ...

This report sought to answer the question: does the vertical component of ground motion constitute a significant proportion of the loading that has to be resisted by a building and by its foundations. It concentrates on ground motion in the near-field where ...

This report, FEMA-352 , has been developed by the SAC Joint Venture under contract to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to provide communities and organizations developing programs for the assessment, occupancy status, and repair of welded steel ...

This report, FEMA-350 has been developed by the SAC Joint Venture under contract to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to provide organizations engaged in the development of consensus design standards and building code provisions with recommended ...

This report, FEMA-351 has been developed by the SAC Joint Venture under contract to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to provide structural engineers with recommended criteria for evaluation of the probable performance of existing steel moment-frame ...

In this chapter an overview of earthquake types and the infrastructures vulnerability along with mitigation measures are discussed.

For seven weeks, a temporary network of 68 seismological stations was operated in Central Greece, in the region of Thessaly and Evia, located at the western termination of the North Anatolian Fault system. We recorded 510 earthquakes and computed 80 focal ...