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5. Site Response Characterization

Authors : Alain Pecker, Ezio Faccioli, Aybars Gurpinar, Christophe Martin, Philippe Renault

Published in: An Overview of the SIGMA Research Project

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Abstract

It is well recognized that the seismic response of a site is strongly dependent on the local geological and geotechnical features of the ground profile. Several approaches are available to include site response effects in the hazard assessment. They are detailed in the following paragraphs but all of them require more or less in-depth knowledge of the geotechnical characteristics. Such knowledge can only be acquired through sit investigations. Therefore, a considerable amount of efforts has been devoted in SIGMA to investigating the reliability of several site investigation techniques, whose level of complexity depends on the choice of the site effect evaluation method; characterization is also mandatory to get the minimum information to choose the method itself.

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Footnotes
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In geotechnical earthquake engineering the equivalent damping ratio, β, is more commonly used; it is related to the attenuation by 2β = Q −1
 
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Metadata
Title
Site Response Characterization
Authors
Alain Pecker
Ezio Faccioli
Aybars Gurpinar
Christophe Martin
Philippe Renault
Copyright Year
2017
Book
An Overview of the SIGMA Research Project

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-58153-8

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-58154-5

Copyright Year: 2017

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58154-5_5