Location

St. Louis, Missouri

Presentation Date

04 Apr 1995, 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm

Abstract

A preliminary numerical investigation is presented on the long distance effects of soil-structure interaction for important buildings located on soft soils. A simple 20 model is considered, with homogeneous rectangular buildings resting on a single, horizontal, soft layer overlying a much stiffer half-space, impinged by SH waves. Computations are made for different parameter sets, in order to analyze the respective effects of the main parameters: clay layer thickness and frequency, building size, and spacing between buildings. For realistic building properties, wave diffraction related with soil- structure interaction is shown to alter the "free-field" surface motion up to distances of at least 1 km from the next building: duration as well as amplitude are significantly increased at some frequencies, while they may be reduced at other frequencies.

Department(s)

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering

Meeting Name

3rd 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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© 1995 University of Missouri--Rolla, All rights reserved.

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Article - Conference proceedings

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text

Language

English

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Effect of Built Environment on "Free-Field" Motion for Very Soft, Urbanized Sites

St. Louis, Missouri

A preliminary numerical investigation is presented on the long distance effects of soil-structure interaction for important buildings located on soft soils. A simple 20 model is considered, with homogeneous rectangular buildings resting on a single, horizontal, soft layer overlying a much stiffer half-space, impinged by SH waves. Computations are made for different parameter sets, in order to analyze the respective effects of the main parameters: clay layer thickness and frequency, building size, and spacing between buildings. For realistic building properties, wave diffraction related with soil- structure interaction is shown to alter the "free-field" surface motion up to distances of at least 1 km from the next building: duration as well as amplitude are significantly increased at some frequencies, while they may be reduced at other frequencies.