Location
San Diego, California
Presentation Date
30 Mar 2001, 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Abstract
Seismic site response analysis is of paramount importance for many problems in earthquake engineering and has been studied extensively over the last 50 years. More recently, the observed response of deep stiff soil profiles during seismic events has indicated the possibility of significant ground amplification. In this study, a new enhanced hysteretic constitutive model is used for the evaluation of dynamic site response of deep granular soil deposits. The constitutive laws are implemented in a finite element computer code, AMPLE2000. The response of two soil profiles to different earthquake records was calculated using the newly developed model implemented in AMPLE and the computer program, SHAKE, which employs the equivalent linear procedure. The importance of soil nonlinearity with increasing levels of shaking and deposit depth on the acceleration at the ground surface is examined.
Department(s)
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Meeting Name
4th International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics
Publisher
University of Missouri--Rolla
Document Version
Final Version
Rights
© 2001 University of Missouri--Rolla, All rights reserved.
Creative Commons Licensing
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Document Type
Article - Conference proceedings
File Type
text
Language
English
Recommended Citation
Salvati, Lynn A.; Lok, Thomas M.-H.; and Pestana, Juan M., "Seismic Response of Deep Stiff Granular Soil Deposits" (2001). International Conferences on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics. 20.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/icrageesd/04icrageesd/session03/20
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Seismic Response of Deep Stiff Granular Soil Deposits
San Diego, California
Seismic site response analysis is of paramount importance for many problems in earthquake engineering and has been studied extensively over the last 50 years. More recently, the observed response of deep stiff soil profiles during seismic events has indicated the possibility of significant ground amplification. In this study, a new enhanced hysteretic constitutive model is used for the evaluation of dynamic site response of deep granular soil deposits. The constitutive laws are implemented in a finite element computer code, AMPLE2000. The response of two soil profiles to different earthquake records was calculated using the newly developed model implemented in AMPLE and the computer program, SHAKE, which employs the equivalent linear procedure. The importance of soil nonlinearity with increasing levels of shaking and deposit depth on the acceleration at the ground surface is examined.
