Scholars' Mine - International Conferences on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics: Considerations to Damage Patterns in the Marina District During the Loma Prieta Earthquake Based on Rayleigh Wave Investigation
 

Location

St. Louis, Missouri

Presentation Date

10 Mar 1991, 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Abstract

Rayleigh wave investigation is made in the Marina District to study geotechnical factors controlling the damage patterns in the Loma Prieta earthquake. A portable system has been developed for determining a Rayleigh wave dispersion curve based on the measurements of artificially induced ground vibration or microtremor. Five sites are selected along a line crossing the hydraulic fill zone in which structures and/or buried utilities were significantly damaged. An inverse analysis on the measured dispersion curves results in a cross section of shear wave velocity profiles in the District. Site amplification and liquefaction potential of each site are estimated and discussed based on the Vs-profiles. It is shown that soil liquefaction is likely to have occurred throughout the fill zone, and that the predominant period of ground motions in the zone of structural damage is longer than and closer to the natural period of structures with soft first story than that in the non-damaged zone. These results appear to be consistent with the damage patterns in the District, indicating that the proposed investigation is effective for seismic zonation.

Department(s)

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering

Meeting Name

2nd International Conference on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics

Publisher

University of Missouri--Rolla

Document Version

Final Version

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© 1991 University of Missouri--Rolla, All rights reserved.

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Language

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Considerations to Damage Patterns in the Marina District During the Loma Prieta Earthquake Based on Rayleigh Wave Investigation

St. Louis, Missouri

Rayleigh wave investigation is made in the Marina District to study geotechnical factors controlling the damage patterns in the Loma Prieta earthquake. A portable system has been developed for determining a Rayleigh wave dispersion curve based on the measurements of artificially induced ground vibration or microtremor. Five sites are selected along a line crossing the hydraulic fill zone in which structures and/or buried utilities were significantly damaged. An inverse analysis on the measured dispersion curves results in a cross section of shear wave velocity profiles in the District. Site amplification and liquefaction potential of each site are estimated and discussed based on the Vs-profiles. It is shown that soil liquefaction is likely to have occurred throughout the fill zone, and that the predominant period of ground motions in the zone of structural damage is longer than and closer to the natural period of structures with soft first story than that in the non-damaged zone. These results appear to be consistent with the damage patterns in the District, indicating that the proposed investigation is effective for seismic zonation.