Accession Number:
ADA318807
Title:
Comparison of Idealization Schemes for One-Dimensional Site Response Analysis.
Descriptive Note:
Final rept.,
Corporate Author:
ARMY ENGINEER WATERWAYS EXPERIMENT STATION VICKSBURG MS GEOTECHNICAL LAB
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Report Date:
1996-11-01
Pagination or Media Count:
100.0
Abstract:
Site response analyses have been completed at a number of large Department of Energy DOE project sites that are being analyzed for seismic safety. The objective of a site response analysis is to estimate the free-field ground shaking during an earthquake, that is shaking at sites that does not include effects caused by proximity to structures or topographic features, for a specific hazard level and set of site conditions. The requisite components for a site response analysis are one or more design earthquake events with representative earthquake records, an idealization of the soil-rock system at the site of interest, and a scheme to generate response solutions to simplified assumed wave fields. Normally, the free-field ground response is presented in terms of either response spectra or the variation of acceleration or velocity with time. The alternative to conducting a site-specific response analysis is to use general sidelines recommended by Kennedy et al. 1990.
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Subject Categories:
- Seismology