Location
St. Louis, Missouri
Presentation Date
07 Apr 1995, 10:30 am - 11:30 am
Abstract
In spite of relative low, magnitude comparing with the historical destructive earthquake of the region, South-East Sicily was damaged by the 13/12/1990 earthquake, with estimated magnitude of 5.4; in the town of Augusta and Lentini even concrete buildings had severely damaged. The present paper deals with results from analytical soil amplification studies using actual soil profiles from Augusta site. To investigate dynamic soil behavior, field test as cross-hole and down hole were performed, and laboratory test as resonant column and cyclic triaxal tests were executed. Results indicate that, when using proper laboratory and field measurements of soil properties, one-dimensional soil amplification analyses can explain not only the trends observed in the intensity and distribution of damage to buildings but can explain the soil response, causing the severe damage of various structures in Augusta.
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
Rights
© 1995 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
Maugeri, M. and Frenna, S. M., "Soil-Response Analyses for the 1990 South-East Sicily Earthquake" (1995). International Conferences on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics. 6.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/icrageesd/03icrageesd/session09/6
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Soil-Response Analyses for the 1990 South-East Sicily Earthquake
St. Louis, Missouri
In spite of relative low, magnitude comparing with the historical destructive earthquake of the region, South-East Sicily was damaged by the 13/12/1990 earthquake, with estimated magnitude of 5.4; in the town of Augusta and Lentini even concrete buildings had severely damaged. The present paper deals with results from analytical soil amplification studies using actual soil profiles from Augusta site. To investigate dynamic soil behavior, field test as cross-hole and down hole were performed, and laboratory test as resonant column and cyclic triaxal tests were executed. Results indicate that, when using proper laboratory and field measurements of soil properties, one-dimensional soil amplification analyses can explain not only the trends observed in the intensity and distribution of damage to buildings but can explain the soil response, causing the severe damage of various structures in Augusta.
