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Increasing Seismic Safety by Combining Engineering Technologies and Seismological Data

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 2009

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Editors:
  1. Marco Mucciarelli

    1. Department of Structures, Soil Dynamics and Applied Geology, University of Basilicata, Potenza, Italy

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  2. Marijan Herak

    1. Department of Geophysics, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

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  3. John Cassidy

    1. Natural Resources Canada, Geological Survey of Canada, Sidney, Canada

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  • Joint discussion and conclusions between seismologists and engineers
  • Case histories focused on less expensive techniques
  • Updated state of the art with reference to most recent experience in different countries

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Table of contents (24 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. The Use of Ambient Noise for Building and Soil Characterisation

    • Marijan Herak
    Pages 1-2

  3. The Need for Standardized Approach for Estimating the Local Site Effects Based on Ambient Noise Recordings

    • Kuvvet Atakan
    Pages 3-15

  4. Are Transients Carrying Useful Information for Estimating H/V Spectral Ratios?

    • Stefano Parolai, Matte Picozzi, Angelo Strollo, Marco Pilz, Domenico Di Giacomo, Barbara Liss et al.
    Pages 17-31

  5. Basic Structure of QTS (HVSR) and Examples of Applications

    • Yutaka Nakamura
    Pages 33-51

  6. Ambient Noise and Site Response: From Estimation of Site Effects to Determination of the Subsoil Structure

    • Francisco J. Chάvez-García
    Pages 53-71

  7. In-Situ Estimates of Material Damping from Environmental Noise Measurements

    • Dario Albarello, Francesco Baliva
    Pages 73-84

  8. Estimates of Vs30 Based on Constrained H/V Ratio Measurements Alone

    • Silvia Castellaro, Francesco Mulargia
    Pages 85-97

  9. Comparison of Recorded Dynamic Characteristics of Structures and Ground During Strong and Weak Shaking

    • Mehmet Çelebi
    Pages 99-115

  10. HVSR Technique Improvement Using Redundant Wavelet Transform

    • Filippos Vallianatos, George Hloupis
    Pages 117-137

  11. Effect of Buildings on Free-Field Ground Motion

    • Marco Mucciarelli
    Pages 139-140

  12. Effect of Building-Building Interaction on “Free-Field” Ground Motion

    • Marco Mucciarelli, Rocco Ditommaso, Maria Rosaria Gallipoli, Felice Ponzo
    Pages 141-146

  13. Role of Dynamic Properties on Building Vulnerability

    • Angelo Masi
    Pages 147-149

  14. How Far Ambient Noise Measurement May Help to Assess Building Vulnerability?

    • Claude Boutin, Stéphane Hans
    Pages 151-180

  15. Assessment of Seismic Capacity of Existing Buildings – Effects of Uncertainties

    • Dimitrios Baros, Miltiadis Kyrkos, Andreas Maravas, Stavros Anagnostopoulos
    Pages 181-206

  16. Estimation of the Period of Vibration of Existing RC Building Types Based on Experimental Data and Numerical Results

    • Angelo Masi, Marco Vona
    Pages 207-225

  17. Retrofitting and Strengthening Evaluation from Stiffness Variations of a Damaged Building from Ambient Vibration Recordings

    • Mohammed N. Farsi, Bertrand Guillier, Jean-Luc Chatelain, Sid-Ahmed Zermout
    Pages 227-238

  18. State-of-the-Art – Recent Advances and Applications

    • John F. Cassidy
    Pages 239-240

  19. Microtremor Soil-Structure Resonance Study in the Bovec Basin (NW Slovenia) Related to 1998 and 2004 Damaging Earthquakes

    • Andrej Gosar
    Pages 241-255

  20. Recent Earthquake Site Response Studies in Canada

    • John F. Cassidy, Sheri Molnar
    Pages 257-279
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The current state-of-the-art allows seismologists to give statistical estimates of the probability of a large earthquake striking a given region, identifying the areas in which the seismic hazard is the highest. However, the usefulness of these estimates is limited, without information about local subsoil conditions and the vulnerability of buildings. Identifying the sites where a local ampli?cation of seismic shaking will occur, and identifying the buildings that will be the weakest under the seismic shaking is the only strategy that allows effective defence against earthquake damage at an affordable cost, by applying selective reinforcement only to the structures that need it. Unfortunately, too often the Earth’s surface acted as a divide between seism- ogists and engineers. Now it is becoming clear that the building behaviour largely depends on the seismic input and the buildings on their turn act as seismic sources, in an intricate interplay that non-linear phenomena make even more complex. These phenomena are often the cause of observed damage enhancement during past ear- quakes. While research may pursue complex models to fully understand soil dyn- ics under seismic loading, we need, at the same time, simple models valid on average, whose results can be easily transferred to end users without prohibitive expenditure. Very complex models require a large amount of data that can only be obtained at a very high cost or may be impossible to get at all.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Structures, Soil Dynamics and Applied Geology, University of Basilicata, Potenza, Italy

    Marco Mucciarelli

  • Department of Geophysics, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

    Marijan Herak

  • Natural Resources Canada, Geological Survey of Canada, Sidney, Canada

    John Cassidy

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