Location
San Diego, California
Presentation Date
30 Mar 2001, 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Abstract
Refuge accelerogram, 1987 Superstition Hills, CA; and the Kushiro Port station, 1993 Kushiro-Oki, Japan, among others. To understand the nature of these nonlinear effects, we have developed a model of nonlinear soil dynamics that includes nonlinear effects such as anelasticity, hysteretic behavior and cyclic degradation due to pore water pressure. The hysteresis behavior is given by the Generalized Masing rules. This new formulation has a functional representation and it includes the Cundall-Pyke hypothesis and Masing original formulation as special cases. It also provides a mean to quantify anelastic damping as a function of the stress-strain loop. Using the in situ observations from the Gamer Valley downhole seismographic array (GVDSA), we have modeled scenarios of ground motions at the surface for this site. The simulations show amplitude reduction as well as the shift of the fundamental frequency to lower frequencies as observed on vertical arrays. The synthetic accelerograms show the development of intermittent behavior-high frequency peaks riding on low frequency carrier-as observed in the acceleration records mentioned above. Comparisons between the nonlinear model predictions and those computed with the equivalent linear model demonstrate that the latter model fails to capture essential manifestations of nonlinear soil response.
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.
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Document Type
Article - Conference proceedings
File Type
text
Language
English
Recommended Citation
Archuleta, Ralph J.; Lavallée, Daniel; and Bonilla, Luis Fabián, "New Observations and Methods for Modeling Nonlinear Site Response" (2001). International Conferences on Recent Advances in Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering and Soil Dynamics. 11.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/icrageesd/04icrageesd/session03/11
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New Observations and Methods for Modeling Nonlinear Site Response
San Diego, California
Refuge accelerogram, 1987 Superstition Hills, CA; and the Kushiro Port station, 1993 Kushiro-Oki, Japan, among others. To understand the nature of these nonlinear effects, we have developed a model of nonlinear soil dynamics that includes nonlinear effects such as anelasticity, hysteretic behavior and cyclic degradation due to pore water pressure. The hysteresis behavior is given by the Generalized Masing rules. This new formulation has a functional representation and it includes the Cundall-Pyke hypothesis and Masing original formulation as special cases. It also provides a mean to quantify anelastic damping as a function of the stress-strain loop. Using the in situ observations from the Gamer Valley downhole seismographic array (GVDSA), we have modeled scenarios of ground motions at the surface for this site. The simulations show amplitude reduction as well as the shift of the fundamental frequency to lower frequencies as observed on vertical arrays. The synthetic accelerograms show the development of intermittent behavior-high frequency peaks riding on low frequency carrier-as observed in the acceleration records mentioned above. Comparisons between the nonlinear model predictions and those computed with the equivalent linear model demonstrate that the latter model fails to capture essential manifestations of nonlinear soil response.
